For the long-suffering residents of the Chelsea Hotel: the swift return of the Bard Family to a management role at the hotel; a government bailout for those of us behind on the rent and facing eviction

For Chelsea Hotel minority shareholder Marlene Krauss: a summit meeting with God and Satan; eternal life and youth; dominion over all the creatures of the earth

For Chelsea Hotel minority shareholder David Elder: looks; personality; a brain; anything

For Chelsea Hotel general manager Andrew “Piccadilly” Tilley: quiet retirement to New Jersey; a stocking full of hair care products; a job at the new fake Chelsea Hotel in Atlantic City

For New York City: a glass and steel shortage to go with the money shortage; Club Fed memberships for the developers and stockbrokers who pillaged the city

For the High Line: beaucoup boutiques and upscale eateries, as well as private access for all the condotels, to keep the rich jet setters off the streets; extension north of 30th St., and to the ends of the earth

For Florent: a Phoenix-like rebirth over the ashes of the increasingly ridiculous Meat Packing district

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13 responses to “Holiday Wish List”

  1. Old & Crappy Avatar
    Old & Crappy

    David Elder — voice lessons
    Andrew Tilley — Sun In

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    Anonymous

    For Tamasar and Tilley — a large, newly and illegally renovated apartment complete with a mini-bar and ipod docking station somewhere in Glennon Travis’ asshole.

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    Anonymous

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO STANLEY BARD & HIS ENTIRE FAMILY
    WE WISH YOU THE AFOREMENTIONED SWIFT RETURN AND, IN THE MEANTIME, LOVE AND LAUGHS.

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    Anonymous

    For freeloading nebbish David Elder an apartment lease of his own somewhere other than the Chelsea Hotel

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  5. Eau de Elder Avatar
    Eau de Elder

    For David Elder — a new cologne.

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  6. For Marlene This Christmas Avatar
    For Marlene This Christmas

    For Marlene:
    GET LAID.
    Heck, I’m young(ish), fit and reasonably well hung, too. I’ll be glad to lay you, Marlene, if you just do us all one thing and
    BRING BACK THE BARDS!

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    Anonymous

    For Piri Thomas, author of Down These Mean Streets–
    I wish you the $1.2 Million dollars that a Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles says David Elder stole from you.

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    Anonymous

    If I had to wish Marlene Krauss and David Elder anything this Holiday Season it would be for them to have the courage to do the right thing. No admissions of guilt, just put the Bards back behind the desk where they belong and get the Chelsea back on track.

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  9. Miss H Avatar
    Miss H

    I wish for Marlene Krauss a heart to understand the intrinsic value of the Chelsea Hotel, and to then return the Bards to their rightful place running the place. I wish for David Elder a brain to understand how good it will befor everyone if he gives the Bards back control, and the courage ot do it.

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  10. hotel chelsea stranglers Avatar
    hotel chelsea stranglers

    to the bards: as ever, perseverence
    to marlene krauss: someone to regift you bizness sense
    to david elder: something long. like a prison term.
    to andrew tilley: bad hair day, split ends, what-ever.
    to the chelsea hotel: a glorious renewal in 2009.

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  11. Icicle in Hell Avatar
    Icicle in Hell

    To the entire New Management cabal, I wish you foresight and the sudden realization you can never win this fight. Not ever.

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    Anonymous

    Hoping that all of New Management (Tilley, Tamasar, McLaughlin, Elder, Krauss and all of their immediate and extended relatives – lets not exclude anyone) got the emotional and heartfelt equivalent of a fat chunk of coal this Christmas. Since what goes around does come around, you can hardly expect more.

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    Anonymous

    Gored in the tucchis by Rudolph’s horny antler is what I was secretly hoping for the interloping minority shareholders this past Holiday. Did they receive anything close?

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