In my case, on Saturday, I was fascinated by an article in The Oregonian describing this year's SantaCon in Portland. For the uninitiated, Santa Con originated in San Francisco a little more than a decade ago and has become an event in several other cities. SantaCon is described in the Oregonian as "an adult combination of Halloween and Mardi Gras, involving silly parading around in Santa costumes and serious pub crawling."
This year the event began in Hillsboro drinking establishments "to avoid trouble with the Portland police, who had issues with some of last year's revelers." Although by mid-afternoon the assembled Santas had apparently sampled all Hillsboro had to offer and staggered to the Max station for the trip downtown to continue the crawl.
"It's just a fun way to socialize," said Alan Jabin of Milwaukie, who attended with his wife, Debbie. "We participate in a lot of dress-up events," he said, "including the monthly Pirates of Portlandia."
Sadly, no additional information was provided on the monthly piratical events...
SantaCon has apparently received mixed reviews in other communities. The following comment was posted by a gentleman from Seattle:
"What a bunch of losers...I was living in Seattle two years ago when these creeps blocked traffic and the sidewalks on 1st Avenue...that was until about ten local gang bangers decided they had enough of the blockage...and we applauded as they knocked the crap out of these drunken bozos."
Bah Humbug!
In other news, Juneau is now under a Winter Storm Watch - the snow should start to fly by 6 PM and continue for up to 24 hours. Storm snow total up to 20 inches. And then rain for a couple of days. And then clearing-up with temperatures getting down into the teens.
Grandpa and Grandma Newman, Aunt Emilie's daughters Janis and Sandra, and yours truly circa 1965. Grandma Newman was a very serious Christmas afficionado. I suspect I got my Christmas gene from her...
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