This is your Captain singing...

Captain Sensible (born Raymond Burns, and co-founder of The Damned) with "Glad it's all Over" circa 1984...

First Christmas tree for Kita the Wonder Dog of East 10th Street

And now, a very special holiday post about Kita the Wonder Dog of East 10th Street... via Kita's co-master, Jose Garcia...

Supervising the purchase of her first East Village Christmas/druid tree. Joseph is the young man who sold it to us at St Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery. A very pleasant fellow. And ours was apparently the first tree they've sold this year. They clapped for us and everything. Kita was impressed and is excited for the holidays.

On the next episode: Kita meets Zoltar

Previously on EV Grieve:
The further adventures of Kita the Wonder Dog of East 10th Street

The further (often truly) amazing adventures of Kita the Wonder Dog of East 10th Street

Noted

From the NYPD Daily Blotter in the Post today:

Detectives are seeking whoever e-mailed a pornographic photo of a child and a man to a Lower East Side woman, sources said.

The 29-year-old woman told investigators that the image came via her Instagram account at 7 p.m. Nov. 12, and that she didn’t know the people in it.

[Updated] Trees arrive to be ornamented

And, as promised, these green things Christmas Trees arrived today at two East Village Green Things Christmas Tree Stands... First Avenue and East 14th Street...

...and outside Rite Aid on First Avenue at East Fifth Street...

And I think the trees have arrived outside St. Mark's Church-on-the-Bowery too on Second Avenue....

Updated:

EVG reader John passed this shot this morning...

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And soon, you will also be able to hear the pudding singing in the copper...

The bells of St. Brigid's [VIDEO]

I was hanging around in Tompkins Square Park this morning... and I finally heard the bells coming from St. Brigid's on Avenue B... excuse the rushed quality to the video... dropped everything (50 pounds of bread for the rats, etc.) to record this...



A commenter had this to say on our post the other day:

Well, all you tin-eared tintinabulists....These are not real church bells---rather a clever assemblage of recorded sounds run through well placed speakers...And they aren't coordinated with real time merely an approximation-Can't the priest check his cell-phone to at least be accurate?...The original bell was amazing and it was removed and not reinstalled for reasons that remain a troubling mystery. These recorded sounds are horrible and as fake as Hostess Twinkies. As a neighbor who lives quite close to the church I wish they would stop them completely.

Previously.

Tonight, 'The Last Waltz,' a fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Sandy

From the EV Grieve inbox... a free show tonight featuring 30 LES-based musicians at the Rockwood Music Hall on Allen Street...

We'll be donating proceeds to the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which is a great local charity that is on the ground actively helping and fixing things in many of the hardest hit communities, including Staten Island, Brooklyn, and the Rockaways. You can even earmark what area you want your donations to go to, when you give.

Here is the event page on Facebook.

Noted

Never noticed this before outside the incoming 7-Eleven on Avenue A and East 11th Street... given the reaction of neighbors, this sentiment seems about right...

A quick check on the Verizon wall

Been months since checked in here along East 13th Street at Second Avenue...

Should likely be painted brown again soon... unless Verizon has some other priorities these days...

Previously on EV Grieve:
First tag reappears on the Verizon building

Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

Verizon is going to blow the budget on brown paint

Silent night...

Keep getting my holidays mixed up... In any event, St. Brigid's tonight...

Thanksgiving for Sandy Survivors

Volunteers are at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery preparing for the free Thanksgiving meal for people displaced by Superstorm Sandy... 1-4 today...

Per @AMDuross on Twitter — 11am lots of people from EV and other neighborhoods rolling in with donations. Smells amazing.

Holiday tree stands ready for action

Picking up from the earlier post today... holiday tree stands are up and ready at two other neighbor spots... First Avenue and East 14th Street...

...and Second Avenue at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery... looking forward to the arrival of the Holiday Hovel here... (cooler than the Creepy Camper...)

Our tree sources say that the, uh, trees will arrive tomorrow at the First Avenue/14th Street location...

Previously.

On Thanksgiving, remembering the turkey of El Jardín del Paraíso

There is a bit of a mystery surrounding the demise of the turkey who lived in El Jardín del Paraíso on East Fourth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D ... as previously noted, flyers about the turkey's death (from "neglect") were placed by someone in adjacent residential buildings ...

EVG reader Emily Iason took these photos on Oct. 30 ... the day after Superstorm Sandy... looking well...

Meanwhile, other feathered residents are OK there... per these photos by Bobby Williams last week...

It has begun (aka breaking): Christmas tree stand going up outside Rite Aid

The annual passage (or something): Workers began assembling the Christmas holiday tree stand outside Rite Aid on First Avenue and East Fifth Street last, per EVG Twitter friend @JorgeO ... No word just yet on when the trees will arrive ... Meanwhile, inside Rite Aid, the 12-ounce canisters of Original Gourmet Butter Cookies are on sale (with wellness+ card) for $1.69 through Saturday.

'Twas the night before Thanksgiving, when all through Tompkins Square Park...

Not sure that's how it goes. Photos from late afternoon via Bobby Williams...