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The Second Coming

A band of revelers led by a wildly gesticulating Santa Claus made waves across Columbia this afternoon, prompting several tipsters to ask "wtf?". The possibly drunk, underweight Saint Nicholas and his six disciples marched across campus twice today, interrupting classes, being mistaken for CUMB, and playing, among other things, a rousing rendition of It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing). We may never be intended to understand their full purpose, but we do know that they are part of the Bread & Puppet theater group, based in Vermont and currently on tour in New York for three weeks. They just started their second week of performances, all of which are at 8:00 pm at the Theater for the New City downtown.

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- DHI, photo by ZVS



Posted by tigerfan: #1 · reply · track
December 5, 2007 at 9:00 PM
im from nawlins and rarely have i heard a Saints Go Marchin In rendition that good.

kudos.
Posted by What?: #2 · reply · track
December 5, 2007 at 9:44 PM
An underweight Saint Nick? Don't tell me that Santa Claus is now doing lines of coke off of Lindsay Lohan. That's not naughty or nice. It's just unprofessional.
Posted by yikes: #3 · reply · track
December 5, 2007 at 10:23 PM
omg Bread & Puppet...batshit insane.
Posted by Fyi: #4 · reply · track
December 5, 2007 at 11:22 PM
St. Nick's six disciples were dressed in old prison black-and-whites, in what this observer takes to be a comment on Santa's use of cheap and disposable elf labor.
Posted by dude: #5 (in reply to #4) · reply · track
December 5, 2007 at 11:36 PM
I thought it was another anti-Columbia protest when I saw it.
Posted by Is that Santa...: #6 · reply · track
December 6, 2007 at 12:53 AM
...or Richard Bulliet?
Posted by yesss: #7 · reply · track
December 6, 2007 at 2:14 AM
tomas on saxophone: what a baller
Posted by Mrs. Clause: #8 · reply · track
December 6, 2007 at 3:31 AM
i swear to god when he does that thing naked... he got the thing.
Posted by anothertigerfan: #9 (in reply to #1) · reply · track
December 6, 2007 at 7:24 AM
wtf? where in NOLA? I lived in the warehouse District before moving up here.

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