Santacon @Franklin Park Saturday
At 10am? Is that for real!?
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There's hundreds of Santas walking past my house as I write, screaming Jingle Bells. Pretty funny.
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It is so weird out there --- people are chugging handles of Jim Bean in the streets and just wandering around in the road with beers in both hands -- and all dressed as Santa! It reminds me of my college town's "block party" where you started getting wasted over Kegs & Eggs at like 8am. It's 11:30 and people are drunk and wandering.. It felt kinda Williamsburg in our neck of the woods for a bit while we walked through... But it looked like fun at the same time. Just hope they don't get too obnoxious and anything bad happens.
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karl also saw many elves
but they were not real -
Yeah, I saw about 100 Santas here in Greenpoint, in various Santa-related costumes.
I looked at the website; I'm not quite sure how it works, but everyone was pretty nice and seemed to be having fun. -
It looked BYOB to me...so why they were at bars, I don't know.
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they are presently in Mount Prospect Park, they seem to be planning something.
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Their Twitter is trying to get everyone to Prospect Park right now for "reindeer games."
This shit is hysterical. -
They said PROSPECT Park you drunken heathens!!! Not Mount Prospect!
Silly Santas...
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clearly they are lost.
Where is rudolph when you need him? -
Haha! Yup , I saw them coming up Eastern Parkway.Took some pics with my cell.There was a mob of them! Elves and walking presents ,too.
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Dude wouldn't tell us what he wished for....
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Encouraging open containers in a neighborhood where the locals get citations, regularly? Insensitive, or full of white privelege, depending on how you look at it. Great, the Santas got their party on, but they could have tried to understand the racial dynamics of brown-bagging it on the street in an historically black neighborhood where black people always get cuffed. The 'Santarchy' info on the web says the whole thing started in SF with a definitively political aim. Now it's a jersey frat party. Not that jersey cares, I guess.
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Were the women who were tagging along Santa groupies?
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sterling2000 wrote: Were the women who were tagging along Santa groupies?
As per one of the Santa's they were "walking presents" (Ms. Claus's with nice legs?) -
bwahahaha! Watchuwant, THANK you for telling me about this! Heeeelarious! I must always remember the four f--ks!
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Holla peno wrote: Encouraging open containers in a neighborhood where the locals get citations, regularly? Insensitive, or full of white privelege, depending on how you look at it. Great, the Santas got their party on, but they could have tried to understand the racial dynamics of brown-bagging it on the street in an historically black neighborhood where black people always get cuffed. The 'Santarchy' info on the web says the whole thing started in SF with a definitively political aim. Now it's a jersey frat party. Not that jersey cares, I guess.
From what I heard, some of the Santas actually were hassled by the police for having open containers, but it was also 11AM and I there weren't that many cops out at that point. And, just to clarify, no one was encouraged to have open containers, and certainly not w/o brown bagging them. Those were just boneheads who didn't or don't know any better. You're probably right when you attribute it to white privilege, though, but you can't blame the organizers for every individual's choices, *and* not everyone was doing it. All I can say is that neither I, nor any my friends were since it's a pretty dumb idea to be drinking that hard, that early.
Either way, I'm sorry if you were offended, but ideally, people watching will just get a laugh out of the insanity of it. I'm not one of the organizers, so I don't know for sure, but since in the past, it's usually just been a Manhattan thing, I think the idea was to bring the 'con to other parts of the city that don't usually get to see it (there were 5 starting locations this year, including 2 in Brooklyn, and ones in Astoria, Hoboken, and Staten Island as well). -
pwaltman_1972 wrote: [quote=Holla peno]Encouraging open containers in a neighborhood where the locals get citations, regularly? Insensitive, or full of white privelege, depending on how you look at it. Great, the Santas got their party on, but they could have tried to understand the racial dynamics of brown-bagging it on the street in an historically black neighborhood where black people always get cuffed. The 'Santarchy' info on the web says the whole thing started in SF with a definitively political aim. Now it's a jersey frat party. Not that jersey cares, I guess.
From what I heard, some of the Santas actually were hassled by the police for having open containers, but it was also 11AM and I there weren't that many cops out at that point. And, just to clarify, no one was encouraged to have open containers, and certainly not w/o brown bagging them. Those were just boneheads who didn't or don't know any better. You're probably right when you attribute it to white privilege, though, but you can't blame the organizers for every individual's choices, *and* not everyone was doing it. All I can say is that neither I, nor any my friends were since it's a pretty dumb idea to be drinking that hard, that early.
Either way, I'm sorry if you were offended, but ideally, people watching will just get a laugh out of the insanity of it. I'm not one of the organizers, so I don't know for sure, but since in the past, it's usually just been a Manhattan thing, I think the idea was to bring the 'con to other parts of the city that don't usually get to see it (there were 5 starting locations this year, including 2 in Brooklyn, and ones in Astoria, Hoboken, and Staten Island as well).
It was funny in a "what the hell is going on" sort of way to be walking home from breakfast and seeing so many santas walking towards you. but as we got closer to Franklin Park it seemed so college block-party that it lost a lot of its funny. As a 19 year old, Santa Con would have been awesome - but as an adult, I think it's somewhat rude to the neighborhood (Especially one that has a lot of people hassled by cops and whatnot) -- if it had stayed in Franklin Park I don't see the problem -- but seeing people at 11am chugging from an unbagged (not that somehow a bag makes it legal....) handle of liquor in the middle of the street while a cop was just standing there seemed very out of place. It's not the sort of thing I would want my child (if i had one) to see as we were walking home. It's nice that they brought it to the outter boroughs, but I think they should think about where they're having it and get more space for the event -- Franklin Park was overflowing with people into the streets and it's not like there is a row of bars/restaurants there to pick up the extra people - it just becomes an inpromptu blockparty. -
Holla peno wrote: Encouraging open containers in a neighborhood where the locals get citations, regularly? Insensitive, or full of white privelege, depending on how you look at it. Great, the Santas got their party on, but they could have tried to understand the racial dynamics of brown-bagging it on the street in an historically black neighborhood where black people always get cuffed. The 'Santarchy' info on the web says the whole thing started in SF with a definitively political aim. Now it's a jersey frat party. Not that jersey cares, I guess.
Even cooler was when the fire truck pulled up and the Santa slammers could alternate between doing shots and cheering all the different horns that are available on the fire truck. Bags don't make beer legal, but they help and so do straws .I am going to ask Black Santa his views on this,he is down at Atlantic center mall and busy with lots of kids -
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