Slum Goddess sent along this shot from East Ninth Street near Avenue C last evening. No newspaper for verification. However, an official from the International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring (ICTTS) will pay a rare site visit today or next week for verification. I cannot say when exactly. The official wants to avoid a media frenzy. Also, the ICTTS may make an exception since Slum Goddess has been traumatized by a Cat Stevens record at work.
Meanwhile, in Jamaica, Queens... our friends at One Folded Sunset sent this along from Friday — with proper verification noted.
How all this will play out, only the ICTTS knows for sure.
Far be it from me to tell the ICTTS their business, but I think the perfect prize (yes, I'm obsessed over what the prize is going to be) would be a year's subscription to the NY Post and Daily News.
ReplyDeleteHar! I should have held that damn Cat Stevens Numbers LP up next to the tree. It won't verify the date but it WILL verify how bad that album is.
ReplyDeleteWhat an emotional roller coaster this competition has become. I vote for a bottle of spirits (gin, preferably) as a prize. And I hate to raise this question, but doesn't the April 9th entry look more like some sort of other, non-Christmas evergreen? There's a certain wispiness that is surely not meant to support decorations of any kind? I trust the ever scrupulous judges to examine it carefully when they visit the site.
ReplyDeletesorry to bust your bubble but that is my neighbors potted tree not an xmas tree, I think it was tossed on thursday
ReplyDelete@Anonymous 6:12PM: Are you affiliated with the ICTTS? It would be just like them to be running around busting bubbles like that.
ReplyDeleteWhy is a blog entitled EV Grieve even considering trees from other boroughs???
ReplyDeleteYes I saw that tree as well and it is indeed a potted tree that kinda looks like a topiary!
ReplyDeleteWow. This is getting ugly. The ICTTS will have to hold a news conference here now.
ReplyDeleteThese trees are cursed!
ReplyDeleteonemorefoldedsunset cannot get a break!!! Please award him/her with a bronze or silver medallion or something! it's only fair!
ReplyDelete@Roger_Paw: The ICTTS don't care about fair, they are true sons of bitches and have their own twisted agenda at hand. I think they are working with the Taliban, but don't quote me on that. They frighten me.
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