The moment you've been waiting for.... ticketing information for Santacon 2009 has arrived. Pop on over here to get your tickets. A few notes.
- Everyone must have a ticket (price optional). If you opt not to pay for a ticket, Santa highly suggests you bring cacophony to share.
- You must also show up with your own $5 metro pass.
Santa would also like to thank everyone who filled out the survey. Your responses were very colorful. Santa will be sharing some of those later, but we overwhelming heard that you want to kick it back to the Cacophony (and yes, we know the "bar crawl" last year sucked - that's not how it was supposed to happen). Santa was surprised at how many of you want a pony. Be careful for what you ask for......
But back to the Cacophony. Santacon is a response to the consumer-culture of Amerika's Holiday season. To that end, Santa would invite, incite you to come with your way to create and spin up the cacophony. Santa is working hard to put Santa in a place where cacophony can ensue; however it's up to Santa to create it.
(Only one request: can we keep the meta-pranks: the pranks on Santa, to a minimum? Remember who we're pranking. Pranking the pranksters can be fun and games but is lost in the larger scheme of the event.) Also, don't be a douchebag asshole Santa. No-one likes that.
Alright Santa, get your tickets, and we'll see you on the first day of Hannukah: 12/12! Ho ho ho.
Only douche bags charge admission to a free event.
Santacon is a free event that was developed by the Cacophony Society years ago. It is Has always been free. If you want to create an event that costs money, please use another name.
Don't charge a fee for an idea that you did not come up with on your own.
-Santa
Posted by: Josh | December 06, 2009 at 10:14 PM
If Santacon is a "response to the consumer-culture of Amerika's Holiday season," why did we spend most of our time in the predominantly working class, Latino environs of East LA and the downtown transit system? Wouldn't we have made a greater impact by hitting places like the Grove, Hollywood & Highland, The Beverly Center and Rodeo Drive? That's where you find lots of people spending obscene amounts of money for Christmas gifts. Instead, we were pranking in the turf of the have-nots. I think we were seen by more homeless people than Visa Gold card carriers.
I know that the rain posed challenges, but this seemed like an insular Burning Man bar crawl, not an event which engaged with or confronted the consumer culture of Los Angeles. I felt like we were simply drunk gringos goofing around in someone else's neighborhood. We didn't interfere with anyone's consumerism, unless you count slowing down the kitchen at a family Mexican restaurant.
Why not take a plunge into the center of commerce next year, instead of tiptoeing around the soon-to-be-gentrified (by us)'hoods to our east? Yes, I know that Hollywood & Highland & The Grove have Gestapo-like rentacops. But hell, I'm not afraid of a Taser. That shit don't work through a Santa suit. Who's with me?
Posted by: Matt Cornell | December 13, 2009 at 02:46 AM
MOOSE TURD PIE! motherfuckers. MOOSE TURD PIE.
Posted by: the reverend dak | December 14, 2009 at 01:26 PM