December 07, 2004
What would baby Jesus say about SantaCon?
Here in this crass commercial center, how would you expect the natives to celebrate a holiday so teeming with opportunities ripe for exploitation? Sure, you can spend $10,000 for a martini with a diamond in it, or rip out a historic literary landmark to install a new mini-mall. But the real pros attend Santacon, the 7th annual Santa convention. If you read the details at Gothamist, you can figure out this probably doesn't play in Peoria: Santa's are encouraged to be surly, yell, sing naughty carols and experiment with interpretive dance in front of traffic ... all whilst drinking in bars and out of flasks. It starts this Saturday at 10a.m. and may be coming to another city near you.
For an armchair version, try David Sedaris' "Holidays on Ice," which includes a painfully hilarious account of two seasons as an elf at Macy's on 34th Street. You can hear Sedaris read it here, on a "This American Life" show. (It's act II.)
December 7, 2004 01:12 PM in Drinkology
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