It's that time of year again -- when drunken Santas storm their respective cities for "SantaCon," a "not-for-profit, non-political, non-religious & non-logical Santa Claus convention, attended for absolutely no reason." We sent photographer Jim Kiernan into the throng of SantaConNYC to put you in the midst of the revelers as they did their best "Bad Santa" impressions.

What he found reminds us of LebowskiFest with fewer Dudes and more drunk Santas, drunk elf hookers and scantily clad Mrs. Clauses. Ho! Ho! Ho!

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SantaCon NYC 2009

New Yorkers gather to wander the streets in their brown-baggin' Christmas best for SantaCon 2009 in NYC.

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Yes, Virginia, there is a busload of Santas.

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Mrs. Claus, drinking a beer out of a bubble mailer, keeping it cah-lassy. Nice.

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Santa, about to deliver a quart of EggNog. Skeet skeet, y'all!

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Palin strikes again.

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Damn, it may be cold, but it's getting hot in here...

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Santa don't take no jive.

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Two drunk elf hookers and a soon-to-be-fired NYPD officer. Oops.

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Agreed.

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Courtesy of Jim Kiernan