"It's a SantaCon for people who have been doing it for 10 or 15 years and are tired of it being co-opted by busloads of college kids from upstate or drunken 22-year-olds from the suburbs."
The alternative SantaCon Detour seeks to recapture what Ehmann and others described as the event's countercultural roots as a "dress-up, anti-shop-'til-you-drop culture jam," and not "a bar crawl" or "puke fest."
And!
"If you're a 22-year-old, you're going to see [Detour SantaCon] is going to be a bunch of 50-year-olds," she said. "We wouldn't want them, and they wouldn't want us. They want to be with slutty Santa elves. They want to be drinking in the streets and jumping on taxis."
SantaCon Detour is now in its second year. It will start at the same location as the main SantaCon on Dec. 14, but then the group will go do their own thing.
According to the SantaCon Detour 2013 description at Wherevent:
If you joined up with us last year, you know the program: Trying to SAVE SantaCon by having our own, smaller contingent … This year I plan to, again, hijack a hoard of my Santa friends after the initial meeting location and take them to a spacious place with seats and some brunchy type food (and booze, of course). From there Santa will be on the move to a few fun photo ops and end in the early evening at a venue with drinks and dancing.
[Stock photo by Maria Dryfhout]
24 comments:
Who doesn't love slutty Santa elves?
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Oh my god, is this what the past few years of bitching about Santacon has wrought? Santacon factions? For fuck's sake. What is so wrong with drinking in one bar, wearing your regular clothes, with a few friends? Must everything be an event, whether pukefest or "culture jam"?
so 50 year olds don't puke?
My god, how sadly lame.
And what kind of 50 year old really cares so much about upholding the "tradition" and sanctity of Santacon? Really odd I tell you.
Agreed with 9:35AM, what's so goddamned important or precious about dressing like a fairy tale character when you can just as well enjoy some drinks with friends in peace?
I guess these 50 something SantaCon Detours (BTW, such a lame name) saw Dan Akroyd in 1983’s “Trading Places” and they just couldn’t let go. Really, grow the F up.
Also, another kudos to 9.35 AM, my thoughts exactly.
A shot of Metamucil for ALL! And to ALL a goodnight
A 22 year old jerk from Jersey dressed up in a costume and vomiting in the streets is at least inderstandable; young, stupid, trying to be cool and fit in with the gang, etc. Someone still interested in doing this at 50 is truly a sad loser indeed.
I for one am glad to learn of this. I was an original SantaCon'er, but I've stopped in recent years due to the number of young-ones who don't care about the traditions of SantaCon, who are there just to drink to excess. I'll be there with bells on (literally!) following the Detour signs.
We just had fucking Halloween, what is it with adults and costumes??? How about just bringing the whole SantaCon idea behind the shed and put a bullet in it once and for all. I can never look at someone in that outfit with respect and dignity again.
If that is the Abby E that is Editrix Abby she is actually really cool. She's a neighborhood fixture and I have read her sex columns which have been published everywhere including Penthouse and she is a big part of the east village and LES scene helping to keep it alive as a freaky, bad ass older women who still goes out partying. She performs at mics and at bookshops..last time I saw her was possibly at the Lydia Lunch thing months ago. I am going to blog the horrors of SantaCon because it is indeed horrible...but Abby has been around here forever and could possibly be in the next "out and about" column which everyone praises as she has been a performance artist and writer in the hood for as long as I can remember. Give her a break or at least read some of her stuff before BEING SO DAMN MEAN WHY ARE YOU ALL SO MEAN???
No, seriously..you are all bashing a really cool fucking person who lives here and has been around for decades not some idiot latching on to SantaCon.
Per Eden above,
Because not all readers here are cool hipsters, some like myself actually wind up cleaning up the disgusting mess these drunks leave behind. So we don't "dig" it.
Really? Cause I just moved here and this area is soooo cool!!!
I'm from here if you must know. Henry street born and bred. I'm quite aware of what is going on and blog as slumgoddess. Both Abby and I are in our 40's and 50's respectively so I wish we were hipsters as we'd be a lot younger. Gotta go buy some Fro-Yo! SMURFS FOREVER!
You guys are being so mean to these older people who just want to sort-of get drunk in the streets while pretending to object to younger people doing exactly the same thing. If older people want to have a senior moment than so be it. Justin case they forget, here's a list of things for everyone attending SeniorSantaCon to remember to bring with them:
Your name and address printed on a 3 x 5 card attached to a string around your neck, just in case you forget your name or where you live, or both.
Bring your AARP card so you can get all those greta senior discounts on drinks at all those East Village bars that give discounts to seniors (that would be none of them).
Wear Your "Actually I'm Not Even Part Of SantaCon, I'm Just Having a Mid-life Crisis" t-shirt
Wear your Depends brand Santa Pants from Ricky's, for those just in case I don't make it to the next bathroom moments.
And don't forget to bring your dignity if you can still find it, because you'll probably be losing most of it along the way.
Look I'm 87 and I'm going and I plan to fall and not be able to get up. Please don't bring me to bellvue I prefer Beth Israel the food is better for my gumming of it as I have no teeth.
Listen, I met Eden Bee last night at Josie’s, she’s a very cool person ,we talked, so let’s just grandfather in Abby Ehmann for Santa Con and move on, she happens to be a real EV original. On another note, last night in the EV was wonderful, true locals, the Woo Hooers having gone home to meet their financial backers. Walking down Ave A, all the bars looked magical and inviting. Sigh.
I am not a fan of partiers period! OR partiers in groups!
So does this mean none of you are coming to my Fro-Yo party yogurt crawl? Just really into the Fro-Yo scene lately and I expect about 10,000 fans of this chemical laden, delicious treat to join me in hitting up every place that is willing to serve us on NATIONAL FRO-YO APPRECIATION DAY.
We start out at 16 handles then make our way to Avenue D where we will camp out and await the opening of the very first Fro-Yo station there which should happen sometime around May 2014. Bring a sleeping bag and a spoon!
The froyo crawl dressed as zombie Santa clauses. The puke of yogurt will smell better and all proceeds donated to urinal tract infection research.
@CrazyEddie - so it sounds like I missed a nice night last night. Well stated - home to meet their financial backers... (sidenote: fuck 'em all!)
Hit up LIBERATION for my # and "drop a dime" - would be good to speak w ya!
I am trying to get all bloggers or people that read the neighborhood blogs to meet up once a week or so for drinks and trash talking at Josie's or somewhere mellow. It was fun.
Eden, it could be like our version of the "Algonquin Round Table". Or maybe not.
Wear a costume and bring a pony that's all I ask.
Hah! Wow. Just found all this blather. Thank you, Eden Bee, for the vote of confidence. I suppose all these other assholes are planning on moving to the suburbs and growing old and boring once they hit the 50-year mark. And they're irritated that us senior citizens are still taking up valuable real estate in their super cool hipster hood. Fuck all y'all. I'm old. I ain't goin' anywhere. And if I wanna dress up in costumes and get shitfaced with my friends, I'm gonna. I just DON'T puke because I'm a fucking professional and can hold my liquor. So yeah, keep an eye out for me every Halloween, SantaCon, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo, Mermaid Parade, 4th of July...hmmm, what else?
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