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,
[Photo from Kmart via Crazy Eddie]
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Hands off St. Patrick's Day. It's a religious observance.
Gee Grieve — how is this different from any other weekend around here?
@AC
The vomit is green.
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.
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.
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.
I guess the EV Heave will have lots of new posts.
:-)
@ olympiasepiriot
Yes! EV Heave is cleaning out the van for the weekend stakeout...
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?
If you have to go out, bring a baseball bat!
Prepare for the heaving of the green. Too rah loo rah loo...blaaach.
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.
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?
I've gone to Chinatown the last few St. Patrick's Days. No drunken idiots with glass plastic hats on there.
Nice racist tees at KMart.
Irish isn't a race, it's a nationality.
I ... just ... need... more... time to prepare for THREE DAYS OF THIS.
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.
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.
Um, the Irish (Celts) are indeed a race. Read a book.
"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.
@ 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.
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!
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.
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