SEATTLE SANTARCHY 2012 ROUTE!
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10:00am Charlie's on Broadway for Santa Brunch
12:00pm Cal Anderson Park for Santa Gathering & Games
 1:15pm The Unicorn / Purr / Grimm (Santa needs a drink!)
 3:00pm R Place / Linda's / Bills Off Broadway (All 3 levels of R Place open!)
 4:15pm Gameworks / Pacific Place Top Floor
 5:30pm Santa Gathers Again at Westlake Center
 6:15pm 2nd Avenue & Pike !!! A SPECIAL SANTA EVENT -- Don't be late !!!
 7:00pm Pike Pub & Brewery / Pier 57 on the Waterfront
 9:00pm 1st Avenue Bar Dash!*
        - Boka
        - Contour
        - Pioneer Square Saloon
        - Merchant Cafe
        - The New Orleans
        - J&M Cafe
10:30pm Trinity / Last Supper Club (Santa likes to dance)

* Please don't go to Fado until after 10:30 they have events that evening
* The Central would love to have us but has a $10 cover for charity

HO HO HOLY PANCAKES BATMAN!

Maybe you need some hangover food from dancing your ass off at Bootie Friday night.  Maybe you just want to lay down a base for an entire day of Santarchy this Saturday.  Maybe if you're like me, you just enjoy breakfast.  Join other Santas and go to Charlie's, and don't forget to wear the ol' red & white!

Where: Charlies on Broadway
When: Saturday Dec. 15th @ 9:30am

HO SANTA!

Pre-Funk Santa this Friday with Bootie Mashups!  It's going to be a blast.  Check out http://bootiemashup.com/seattle/  If you wear a Santa hat you get a CD, however if you wear a FULL Santa suit you get in free!

There will also be a Santa PRE-FUNK BRUNCH on Saturday...  details will be forthcoming so keep on checking back.

HO!

There is a ton of confusion this year about Santa.  Mostly due to the fact that we have so freakin' many of them in Seattle.  I for one believe part of what makes Santa special is the fact that it doesn't happen very often.  I also like traveling to other nearby cities to participate in their events.  In fact in 2004 Portland, Vancouver and Seattle banded together to form a "Tri-Santacon" ... I know Rob the Wop deserves credit for this, but as this was my first year doing Santa, I unfortunately don't know who else was involved in planning it.  That's how Santa is supposed to be... the people figuring out the route, setting up entertainment, events and fuckery are supposed to stay behind the scenes and deliver to you one of the most rowdy, debaucherous, insane events we can muster.

Santa also has traditions that we try to remind people of.  First and foremost are the four fucks.  But close behind that we are not on a pub crawl.  We're SANTA.  SANTA is in charge.  We try and push boundaries every year, with style of course!  Sometimes we get to do very special things like lead a marching band through a Fred Meyer.  When Facebook entered the mix, we got lots of new Santas which is FANTASTIC!  But with all these new Santas, we need to make sure the right attitude is conveyed.  The Four Fucks keep us out of jail, but all the rest are what keeps Santacon & Santarchy alive.

Cities have had more than one event, and they can be sustained and still hold that special magic that is Santa, but usually this involves picking different areas of town or different purposes.  In Portland they do a central Portland and a NoPDXAntiCon.  Here in Seattle starting last year we decided to run 2 events, a small Santa "Seattle Santacon" and a big Santa... "Seattle Santarchy".  Santacon will visit neighborhoods in Seattle we just can't take the big group to, and thus there will be no overlap.

Santa is open to everyone who wants to get involved.  Over the years the organizers will change, but there is a core group of people who have invested time in keeping this ball rolling year after year.  Well this year one guy wants to take the Santacon name, do his own thing, forget the traditions that have built over the years, even copying the text we write in our event listing but "cleansing" it so it doesn't say FUCK and moving the words around a little bit.  His event will be in the same general area as ours a week before (the 8th), so it really offers no value that we can see.  Anyway a few of us who work on this event are fairly put off by this, but whatever Santa you choose we encourage you to have a fun Santa this year, remember the FOUR FUCKS, and if you want to get involved with us this year or next we'd love to have you.

HO!

The ROUTE!
* NOTE this is not the route for Santarchy on December 15th.  This is for December 1st.

Welcome to SANTACON!   You found the route!  There are a few more stops in the middle, but we'll save those for a surprise.  Here's all the info you'll need to know to find us.  Remember to tweet to #SeattleSanta !

12:30pm Meet up at the International fountain in Seattle Center.

1:00pm McMenamins Queen Anne

2:15pm Oskars

3:45pm TS McHughs

5:15pm Ozzies

7:30pm Hula-Hula

9:30pm Acquabar (Last Official Stop)

That's right!  We kick off December right away with Santacon on December 1st.  HoHoHo your way to the Seattle Center and meet us at the International Fountain at 12:30pm.  We'll be introducing Queen Anne to the Red & White!

See the events page for more details on this and other Santa events.

Please feel free to post this info anywhere you like, except Facebook.

Santa!  The elves are on strike!

Its time to make Santa's Mutant Toys.  This is when Santa takes a whole bunch of used and discarded toys and "re-invents" them by tearing them apart and assembling them better than they were before!  We'll hand these Mutant Toys out at Santacon.  Ok here are the details:

WHEN: Saturday 11/24 2-5pm
WHERE: Area 19 (814 19th Ave between Marion and Columbia - look for the Shoe Pole™)
BRING: Tools, hot glue guns, toys, wrapping paper and the beverage of your choice

Signs are a great way to have some fun with Santacon/Santarchy!  Make your own signs this year, its easy and when you get tired of carrying them around you can give them away to another Santa!  Here are a few ideas to get you started:

• Will HO for Booze!
• Occupy North Pole
• No Blood for Cookies & Milk
• Elect Santa! 2016
• Merry Fuckin' Christmas
• Buy More Stuff!
• Stop Elf Abuse
• Stop Reindeer Abuse
• Santa Needs A Drink!
• We Want Bigger Chimneys!
• Where's MY present?
• Jesus who?
• Gimme a Beer.  It's Christmas for fucks sake.
• WWSD (What Would Santa Do?)
• No Overtime, No Christmas.
• Santa Died For Your Sins!
• I Got Your Mistle Toe Right Here!