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Halloween in Tompkins Square Park, New York City

And it seems as if the world is going to hell in a hand basket as I type this blagh post, especially with headlines that say Iran threatens to take the internet out because of that 6th trumpet, Gog and Magog war or something or ai is taking out the internet because it can hack anything it wants to, sending everyone into the stone age and countries around the world have been warning their citizens to stockpile food and water and prepare for the end of the world or something after some plannedemic plague came and went, all while record breaking high tides are causing coastal flooding around the world as sea levels are rising and Nepal, California and coasts around the world are falling into the sea. And it seems as if it’s going to be another dark winter all in between the e-bike and scooter death plague that has overtaken New York City and the usual news horror stories of the day. And so in between reading the headline news of the day, I found myself at another one of Chris’s Shows in Tompkins Square Park attempting to vend those Tompkins Square Park t – shirts again. With a Facebook event invite that read, and a day that went something like:

@ Halloween in Tompkins Square Park and La Plaza Cultural 50th Anniversary Celebration

The New York City Parks Department has banned these Tompkins Square Park t – shirts because of the logo on them.

And I am planning to vend banned Tompkins Square Park t – shirts for $10 each at, well during, Saturday, one of two great Halloween shows coming up on October 24th and 25th in Tompkins Square Park. Planning to vend #washingtonsquarepark t – shirts also.

The Shadow Presents: Halloween in Tompkins Square Park

The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black

Love Conquers All

Disappearing Act

Ever Loving

Bang Bang Band Girl

People Control

Non Residents

Skitzopolis

Metalfier

Jones Crusher

Odeipus Triple Rex

Saturday, October 24th and Sunday, October 25th, 2-6pm, Tompkins Square Park, New York City

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Join us for La Plaza Cultural 50th Anniversary Celebration!

With Pinc Louds and guests, Mars Ray and The Raptures, Dracula and his band the Draculas & Funkrust Brass Band

Happy Hour with food and beverage at our ‘Jazz Club on the Plaza”. Music by Eric Hoffman Jazz Ensemble

La Plaza 50th Anniversary Movie Retrospective by Alvah Holmes

Saturday, October 24th

2-8:30pm

La Plaza Cultural, 9th St Ave C. New York City

And thank you Stacie Joy for that Tompkins Square Park t – shirt photo and sophB0T, Zero Boy, James Love Cornwell IV, Steven Sonnenblick and others for buying one of those Tompkins Square Park t -shirts on this day. You hear the coolest stories about Tompkins Square Park from people who have bought those shirts.

And Chilis on Wheels, well Joe, serves the coolest free vegan food to be found in Tompkins Square Park in that city of New York, seemingly every Saturday, as they were to be found there on that concert day also.

Have a great All Hallows Eve and Satans Holy Day. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind.

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A Halloween In Tompkins Square Park

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Halloween in Tompkins Square Park!

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Underground Horns after Halloween in Tompkins Square Park!

And so I had said to myself that I had take photos with that camera at that event burnout on that day that I attempted to vend those Black Lives Matter necklaces, magnets, key chains & pins and Black Lives Matter hats at Halloween in Tompkins Square Park! And instead of taking a bunch of photos with that camera that I did not take to that event, instead, it became take a bunch of random photos with that cell phone that I took to this event. And after that Halloween in Tompkins Square Park! ended, and Seth’s slideshow began, it became a Halloween night that I ran into Underground Horns who were playing on St Mark’s Place, only to read on Facebook later that there was also a dance bus parked on Avenue A, Hungry March Band played, and there was a dance party and bike parade later that Halloween night in Tompkins Square Park. 

And Shows in Tompkins Square Park Facebook event invite reads like:

With the exception of a few brave creative souls who have set up independently, we’ve all been robbed of shows in the park this year. So, on Halloween, we are putting on the biggest one of them all, as our final show for 2020.

In addition to the following performers, we will have political speakers, info tables, publications and arts + crafts created by community members:

> PINC LOUDS
> B.B. YTK
> M. LAMAR
> EDDIE BAKER
> RUCKUS INTERRUPTUS
> THE CARVELS NYC
> SOUL CAKE
> WICKED EXORCIST RITUAL
> THE VOLUPTUOUS HORROR OF KAREN BLACK

Following the show, WW3 ILLUSTRATED co-founder and artist Seth Tobocman will present slides of his anti-Trump comics, with the help of musicians Eric Blitz and John Wagner. Michelle Shocked will perform her blues lament, Graffiti Limbo, honoring the life of Michael Stewart, a young artist who died in police custody in 1983. There were no charges for the murder. R. Sikoryak will read and show images of The Bill of Rights and selected Amendments, from his new graphic novel, Constitution Illustrated.

The fun begins at 1:00pm SHARP!

[Stay tuned here for more details]

If only every day were Halloween then we would be free to be who we want to be.  And as I type this blagh post a few days later after Halloween has passed,  New York City is boarded up again and Luxury retailers are ‘planning for the worst’ on Election Day in anticipation of riots and looting — no matter the result. Have a great Blogger day, if possible, during these crazy and historical times we are living in. #blacklivesmatter

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