absolute fucking mayhem

Go here ( http://originalfools.com/denzoner/saintDick.wmv ) to view the awesome video of Santacon. We also took over entire intersections, a Hooters, one sex shop, five bars, Cheetah's strip club, and two shopping centers (the video shows only one of these stops--The Grove off of Fairfax, which desperately needed its consumer-mecca cherry popped). By the end of the day we'd conquered the fucking city.

There were 233 of us, and we were all loaded by 10:00 a.m. We left from the House of Pies in three double decker-busses (plus one coach bus with a bathroom, which we ALL wished we were on by noon) and stopped traffic everywhere. Much mooning and Santa-stripteasing went on from the tops of the busses, especially on the freeways, and despite the fact that we were unabashedly irreverant and NC-17 (many of us bought fun Santa props at the sex shop, including a large blow-up doll who accompanied us throughout the rest of our trip, from Old Town Pasadena to Chinatown and Olvera Street thru Hollywood to The Grove ) many people were still happy to see us and waved like complete goofballs. None of these locations knew we were coming, and it was a critical-mass overrunning of all security personnel and nonplussed shoppers everywhere we went. It's gotta be quite bizarre to by mildly shopping for your bitchy coworkers and your annoying sister's bratty kids, your own child tugging on your arm, and then all the sudden be swarmed by two-hundred and thirty-odd Santas, all of them roaring drunk and obnoxious.

With this send-up of the stupidity of our society's approach to what was SUPPOSED to be a holiday to celebrate faith, religion and family but was transformed into a debacle of consumerism and one-upmanship now complete, we are thinking about possibly another go. Maybe we will all dress up as Jesus for Easter. That would be hella funny.