MetaFilter posts tagged with christmas and SantaClaus

Christmas at the BFI

Rumple — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:13:01 -0800

Christmas in the London Blitz, 1940; Making Christmas Crackers, 1910; Santa Claus, 1898; Christmas is coming, 1951: short films from the British Film Institute's wonderful Youtube Channel (including excellent playlists), which you can also explore through Google Earth using the kmz file found here.

A reading of "In the Late December," by Greg van Eekhout

JHarris — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:24:57 -0800

"In the Late December" (MP3 link), by Greg van Eekhout, is a Nebula award-nominated story about Santa Claus and the end of the universe, and is Escape Pod #138. (By the way, this is a very dark story -- there's no sex or violence but this probably isn't suitable for kids, where "kids" is defined as a stereotypical aggregate of child-like characteristics. Yours may be different.)

I want a pony, I want a pony ...

madamjujujive — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:26:26 -0800

Secret lives: Santa Claus Steady Mobbin' - I fear this will lead to no good.

From the land of the original Father Christmas

homunculus — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:45:30 -0800

Rare Exports, Inc. They deliver the impeccable, well-mannered, and extremely rare original Finnish Father Christmases to nearly 150 countries every Christmas. Exclusively. [YouTube, NSFW.] Technically this is a double post, and it's old, so I'd certainly understand it being deleted. But the old link doesn't work anymore, it still makes me laugh, and I'm guessing some people haven't seen it, so that's why I posted it.

ho ho ho beard

brundlefly — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:32:35 -0800

Santa'd: Flickr's new holiday Easter egg.

Supported by Mother

bluedaniel — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:59:59 -0800

Vote Chris Christmas Rodriguez for Santa. [MI]

Santa Claus, super shaman

homunculus — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:47:37 -0800

Psychedelic Santa Claus. "Modern Christmas traditions are based on ancient mushroom-using shamans." [Via J-Walk blog.]

Sober Santa

Stan Chin — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:55:11 -0800

Sober Santa. Too much politics today, not enough Christmas fun. Here's a drunk Santa game from b3ta. Pretty tough once you get going.

Santa Lives

wanderingmind — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:17:06 -0800

Santa Claus, elusive jolly old elf, has finally been located by someone curious enough (in both senses of the word) to use FedEx to track him down. (The page I linked to here only tells half the story; click that link down on the left to get FedEx's tracking page.)

plinth — Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:37:18 -0800

Santarchy!

wendell — Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:09:09 -0800

Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and the US Military is watching him. It's NORAD's annual "Santa Tracking" PR campaign, reporting that Father Xmas appears to be flight testing his reindeer earlier this year (a prudent move, if you've seen "Olive, the Other Reindeer", my new favorite Holiday TV trifle). No Grinch sightings, however (he's gotten enough publicity, thank you). Now, the only unanswered question is: Will W.'s proposed Missile Defense System (TM) pose a risk to the Clausman? (And are Rogue Countries (TM) making missiles shaped like sleighs?)

tsja — Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:36:43 -0800

The Dutch foreign ministry tells you all about Sinterklaas, the Dutch predecessor of Santa Claus (see also Tsja).