East village is already a disaster #santacon
— Katya (@katya323) December 15, 2012
what's with all the 20 somethings running around the east village dressed like jerry sandusky?
— Jena Friedman (@JenaFriedman) December 15, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
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I was just out around Union Square. Things are ABOUT AS BAD AS YOU COULD IMAGINE. Lots of people milling about but the vibe is not really happy, it's more like noxious. I bet people wish they were having a better time than they are. Tons of obvious bridge and tunnelers BTW.
ReplyDeleteI am up at 28th and bway and it is pandemonium. Of all the days I picked to come into the office...
ReplyDelete2nd Ave this morning featured groups of them from 4th to 14th streets. At least they were outnumbered. Went to Farmers market and Trader Joe's this afternoon and there were throngs of them everywhere. Lots of them shit-faced. Definitely they waaaay outnumbered non Santas. They're in our building too. Saw groups of girls when we went out. The lobby is already trashed.
ReplyDeleteIt's really out of control.
I have been on the phone all day for about the past 48 hours because a friend of mine died. While on the phone with my mom, who is born/bred Flatbush and knows a thing or two about how to behave in the big city, she was shocked that we had to pause our conversation because the Santa-yelling from the hallway was so fucking loud. It was about 11 am.
ReplyDeleteI only mention my dead friend to remind loud idiots that it's not all about you. So much else is going on, all the time. I don't expect you to care, but indoor voices, motherfuckers.
Condolences about your friend, LvV.
ReplyDeleteI can't help but feel anger at these assholes the day after one of the horrific mass shootings in us history involving little 6 year olds hitting hammered at 9am acting like fools
ReplyDelete@Anon 9;57 - Thank you, my thoughts exactly.
ReplyDeleteThis year seemed to be the worst - they were everywhere. Everywhere. On every sidewalk, in every bar, crammed into every restaurant, from the time I left my house this morning to the time I came home late tonight. I went out to Queens around 6 to see a friend and get away from the insanity, but damn my eyes if, first train stop back in the city, the whole car did not fill up with a mob of them, all hollering at the top of their lungs in exceedingly bad English accents. Just hell on earth. And yes, the day after that school shooting - just shameful.
Thank you, Anon 9:35. you are very sweet. :)
ReplyDeleteAre they fratty douchebags and a pox on the neighborhood? Yes.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the shooting has nothing to do with it.
I don't remember it ever being this bad. This isn't fun, cool or anything remotely upbeat. Its thousands of people descending on the neighborhood to binge drink and act like asshole because hey! It's New York City! FUCK these people already. And fuck Bloomberg and the NYPD for allowing the organizers to do this year after year. I guess someone will have to die before they do something about it.
ReplyDeleteI came home tonight at 3AM after a Sayonara party in the relative safety of Midtown East. What did I find on the stoop of my building? Someone vomiting. Can't wait until tomorrow morning to see the aftermath.
ReplyDeleteHate to destroy the narrative, but the person throwing up on my stoop wasn't dressed as Santa. And fair money says he wasn't a NYU student or trader either. It was some crackhead/junkie/alcoholic. I'm not saying it was the same one that has done it in the past, but they probably share the same dealer.
I am enraged that these youngsters are putting on Santa/Elf outfits, drinking liquor and having fun. I wanted to spend a quiet evening parsing through and signing outrage-tinged online petitions and posting sanctimonious tirades on friends facebook walls, but these young hooligans and creating too much of a ruckus for me to concentrate. The only solace we have is the knowledge that some day these Santas will burn in a cauldron of hellfire!
ReplyDeleteAnon 3:18, I'm sorry that you see my comment about my dead friend as sanctimonious. I agree it's uncool to post one's personal tragedy as an attempt to foster support for a position such as anti-Santaconning, but please know that's not what I was doing. I'm in a honest state of sadness and despair over the way the EV has changed to such an ugly thing, and then trying to talk to my mom about someone we cared deeply about among these Santa-shouts made me especially angry.
ReplyDeleteI also dressed down a bunch of fresh-faced Santa idiots at the bodega last night; judge me for that.
@318 You failed at being remotely funny. Don't quit your day job.
ReplyDeleteKeep telling yourself that it's just old farts who find frat boy/sorority girl lemming-like douche-baggery so bush league, so annoying Anon @ December 16, 2012 3:18 AM.
ReplyDelete@Anon 3;18 - I am thinking you were one of the 'tards running around in red yesterday. Funny as a crutch, you are.
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