Friday, March 15, 2013

If you don't like 3 days of St. Patrick's Day pub crawls, then move to...



As you may have heard, St. Patrick's Day is Sunday. (Or, apparently, St. Paddy's Day.) Which, of course, can only mean three days of pub crawls at participating East Village bars, as the sign in the window there above at Village Pourhouse shows...

How bad will it be? What will do you do?

Anyway, suit up, bitches. Enjoy the weekend.


[Photo from Kmart via Crazy Eddie]

24 comments:

pinhead said...

Hands off St. Patrick's Day. It's a religious observance.

AC said...

Gee Grieve — how is this different from any other weekend around here?

Anonymous said...

@AC
The vomit is green.

Anonymous said...

I fucking hate this holiday. It is a lot less offensive in Ireland, interestingly enough.

I'll be sleeping on the floor of my son's room under his loft bed as I normally sleep in the living room which is in the street-end of the apartment. My kid and I will also be dodging the drunks.

AC, it is indeed always pretty bad, but ime this holiday will be at least as bad as Santa Con. And it will last all weekend. Joy.

Anonymous said...

I'm sure we can all rest assured that the NYPD will be vigorously enforcing the public intoxication, disturbance, and open container ordinances as strictly as they do in Harlem, the Bronx, and Bushwick.

Anonymous said...

If your apartment faces the street, I suggest building up a large arsenal of water balloons for those 4am lovelies...that'll put a stutter in their woo. Or you could go all medieval on their fratty asses and just dump your chamber pot out the window.

Anonymous said...

I guess the EV Heave will have lots of new posts.

:-)

EV Grieve said...

@ olympiasepiriot

Yes! EV Heave is cleaning out the van for the weekend stakeout...

Anonymous said...

Now that Irish-Americans have been more or less as privileged as WASPs for, what, three generations, can we please dispense with this stupid fucking holiday and celebrate the cultural survival of a more recent immigrant group? One whose culture goes beyond green beer?

glamma said...

If you have to go out, bring a baseball bat!

Marty Wombacher said...

Prepare for the heaving of the green. Too rah loo rah loo...blaaach.

Ken from Ken's Kitchen said...

In Ireland, St Patrick's is a holy day with green shirts and Guiness thrown in for the tourists who expect that. In the USA it used to be about demonstrating Irish-American strength and solidarity to the native born Protestants who hated them. My Irish-Italian family had already stopped going to the parade when I was a little kid. Nowadays, in NYC anyway, it's for a few diehards and a lot of tourists, who make themselves very easy to spot.

Spike said...

Any local watering holes that will not let the invading hordes in? I'm told the Wren had a bouncer last year keeping anyone wearing the plastic paddy uniform out. Any others?

Anonymous said...

I've gone to Chinatown the last few St. Patrick's Days. No drunken idiots with glass plastic hats on there.

Anonymous said...

Nice racist tees at KMart.

Big Brother said...

Irish isn't a race, it's a nationality.

EV Heave said...

I ... just ... need... more... time to prepare for THREE DAYS OF THIS.

Crazy Eddie said...

In addition to the standard pub Saint Paddy's douche baggary, another bar enticement today and tomorrow will be the college basketball conference playoffs for the Big 10, the SEC, the ACC, the Big 12, The Big East, the Big 10, Pac-12, SWAC, MEAC, MAC, Big Sky, and the Big West. A perfect Woo storm. Or as friend who just emailed me, SantaCon on steriods.

BTW, Anony 12.13 PM your Chinatown suggestion is an Is an excellent one. I will be escaping by going to my mother in law’s in Jersey.

Anonymous said...

I loved drinking on St. Patrick's Day. When I was 15 and 16. Only losers would go out in this day and age and do this shit. LOSERS. Looooooo-sers.

What is the appeal of a pub crawl, oh clueless ones? You'll have plenty of chances to lose your smartphone and scream and hurl without one.

Anonymous said...

Um, the Irish (Celts) are indeed a race. Read a book.

Ivan Robertson said...

"In Ireland, St Patrick's is a holy day with green shirts and Guinness thrown in for the tourists who expect that..."

Would that it was, I'm afraid.

Anonymous said...

@ Anon 12:53 Please share the "racist" T-shirt comments.
I guess I can go to K-Mart myself but I have to put my Pitbull in the shopping cart like a baby to walk around the store and then I can't stop laughing. AND THEN I really look like crazy lady.

Anonymous said...

Dopey people in our building screaming until five am this morning, so now they are asleep. I really ought to be running the sweeper about now.
Intend to do errands early and then stay in until Sunday, but expect the same craziness til five a.m.
Meh!

Anonymous said...

Memories of St. Patrick's Day on my first year in th EV aka how much I HATE St Patrick’s Day.

It’s not really my vibe so I just tootled about my day ignoring it, went to yoga, felt awesome, discovered a Japanese supermarket and was in my element. I was walking on sunshine down the street only to come within half a heartbeat of being assaulted by some fratty whore-mongering douchepacker. To show off to his mates and get a laugh, he decided to get all lewd and crude inside my “dance space”. He basically got so close up in my grill I was forced to recoil. My next reaction was to come back fighting. I swear to god if a hair had touched me, I would have gone psych-dog crazy on him.

I’m sure there are (oddly) hundreds of thousands of Irish-Americans or just Americans celebrating St Patrick’s Day in a normal fashion. But I’m not down with any holiday that gives license to dickheads drunkenly.