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Thanks to EVG commenter extraordinaire Giovanni for passing along the official handy-dandy SantaCon map. This is from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at which time they'll all be coming by my apartment for tea and homemade scones.
#EastVillage #SantaCon update: @evgrieve readers report that "sexy Jesus" is already throwing up on 9th and 1st. http://t.co/McklhIdex7
— Adele (@missy__m) December 14, 2013
This Saturday, in Washington Square Park, you have an opportunity to dust off your own pre-digital music players and join the world’s biggest boombox parade conceived by composer Phil Kline. Kline will lead a musical chorus of boomboxes and sound-blasters through the streets of Manhattan to Tompkins Square Park all playing an arrangement of the holiday classic Silent Night
Perhaps most distressing about SantaCon is its size and the way that it shuts down and befouls dozens of blocks. Any East Villager (I am one) can tell you that the event makes doing absolutely anything beyond one’s front stoop an impossibility, unless you own swamp waders and a riot shield. Last year, an estimated 30,000 carousers participated in the festivities.
But really, it’s not the disruption or the noise that rankles. New Yorkers can endure street closures and inconveniences for any number of events so long as there is a beneficent impulse, or an obvious reason for the disruption. For a New York City event of its size, however, SantaCon is distinctive, and arguably impressive, in that it contributes absolutely zero value — cultural, artistic, aesthetic, diversionary, culinary or political — to its host neighborhood. Quite simply, SantaCon is a parasite.
At this time in the mid-1980s, Tish Gervais was the transgendered star of the moment in New York — not only because she was transgendered but also because she was sexy and talented too. Along the way, Tish and Nelson encountered Lady Bunny with DJ Dmitry and Tish found serveral magazines featuring her photograph. Video by Nelson Sullivan.