The junior monks and novices slept on planks on the lower level, in a sort of glorified crawl space.
The tour, which cost $99, was a sort of pub crawl, with the pubs replaced by stops like a private home with an eye-popping African art collection and the don't-even-dream-of-getting-a-reservation Red Rooster restaurant.
The image Constable termed a "bumboat' picture, a sort-of naked pub crawl called Youth at the Prow and Pleasure at the Helm, even features a devil metamorphosing from storm clouds as the merry crew sail off on a voyage of self-indulgence.
Nowadays, that event's just a sort of amorphous pub crawl, but I was an organizer with the group that created that event, the Cacophony Society, and in its original form, Santacon was more pointedly and theatrically satiric.
My idea was to see what sort of grumpy despots crawled out from under their blood-covered boulders as Li went about his mission.
All sorts of people crawled out of the woodwork to have top 10 hits in the middle 1960s, then were never heard from again.
The RSPB's Giving Nature a Home campaign launches on Thursday and by signing up and getting tips and advice on how to give wildlife creatures somewhere to stay in your garden or outside space, you could attract all sorts of slithering, crawling, flapping and snuffling guests too.
On paper, the fact that this triangle requires Stewart's character to love both the older man and the nebbishy Allen stand-in should be all sorts of skin-crawling.
You can watch LeBron James duel Tim Duncan for championship glory on most of your television screen, or you can watch a different sort of spectacle on the news crawl beneath them.
