The annual Santa invasion happened this past Saturday, mostly in Manhattan. I walked a tricky line between participating and shooting the video. You lose a lot of the sociability of such events when you are constantly on the lookout for the next good shot. So you better watch out for excellent hula hooping, fantastic Santa Capoeira and loads of silly costumes and antics. I guess I should mark this one a little nsfw, for some naughty language.

For some reason the longer version I had on Google Video is no longer working. So I split it in half to put it on YouTube, which has a ten-minute limit on size. (Update: Google fixed it. See it in one piece here.
Part 1 starts on Pier 45, Hudson River Park in the West Village where the Elves gave love to the firemen, and Santa headed on to Connolly’s Pub near Times Square with Reverend Billy, to then invade Grand Central Station, and spin the Astor Place Cube (Alamo).

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