Tis the Season...

So, before I ran into Jemaine (:::swoon:::) on Sunday, I had a funny Saturday. Since I'm infamous for making a long story longer, I'll expand on this one too.

Last year after sleeping over at M.'s (which sounds like a scandalous story, but really isn't...it was more annoying than anything and I'll talk about it another day) after a crazy night out we went down to Yucca for brunch. Yucca has since been my favourite brunch in all of NYC. Partially because of the spicy Bloody Mary's and mostly because of what I saw that morning. I was sipping on the spicy delicious beverage when I saw a Santa walk by. Crazy, but I suppose it is NY and a Santa is bound to walk by. Then a Christmas Tree walked by followed by another Santa. My friends and I stood up and tried to see over the random cars parked between us and Tompkins Sq. Park where hundreds of Santas stood. Yes my friends, SantaCon.

This year, SantaCon imposed itself on NYC last weekend. A few of us headed down to South St. with some reindeer antlers ready to see a few Santas. We got some stares on the subway because we busted out the antlers on the train to do our preparation. As we got out of the train and into the station, about 10 Santas emerged from other train cars... When we got above ground, it was like a movie: tacky red and white velour and fluff were coming at us from every angle. I felt so underdressed. I had a huge red and white deficit going on with my outfit, but I was just too amazed at all of the Santas to be too concerned.

We were in front of the Christmas tree that sits in the middle of all of the shops and watched some Santas singing and doing Capoeira...And as we walked past the tree we saw the hundreds of Santas that were hidden behind it...The vastness of Santas was mystifying. The sheer numbers are easy to see, but the infinite types were impressive.

Pimp Santa...
Scottish Santa...














And even one of 'Santa's Helpers'...