Culture Buzz If you really want to break the news to your kids that Santa doesn't exist, then at least do it with science!
Culture Buzz The Google service Send A Call From Santa lets you send voicemail or video messages to your friends in Santa's voice. My favorite is having him call them Boo and tell them they're getting jeggings for Christmas.
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Santa might get inundated with Wish Lists every year, but he also gets some very pertinent (and difficult to answer) questions. Luckily in today’s world, he can take to the Internet like a mythical Ann Landers to talk to kids of all ages.
Celebrity Buzz Water.org cofounder Matt Damon decided to hit the malls this Christmas in order to promote the clean water cause in Africa. All I know is I'd take a water bottle from Santa Damon any day of the week.
Santa is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Santa.
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Santa Claus is in some very prestigious company.
Culture Buzz Here's a deadstock Christmas card created by Brad McGinty's grandfather post-WWII in an attempt to create American-style greeting cards for both the Japanese and the American markets. These are going out to my extended Asian family this winter.
Culture Buzz Well this is appropriate. The Scottsdale Gun Club in Arizona is inviting families to pose with machine guns and Santa Claus for only $10. “We thought it would be a fun, family-friendly idea,” Katie Perrine from the club said ahead of the event’s launch.
If Santa Claus, Sam Elliot and the Golem of Jewish lore were dropped into the Large Hadron Collider, what would emerge would still not be as wonderful as this follicular specimen. He Wins March Mustache Madness. Hell, he wins March Everything Madness. Use our image editor at the bottom of the page and mustache ride him into photos of your choosing!
Culture Buzz A recent show by artist Soasig Chamaillard, collecting her Virgin Mary statues redone as pop culture pastiche, triggered an anti-cute crusade in France. How you could be offended by something as sacriliciously adorable as the My Little Pony Virgin Centaur, Baby Jesus only knows.
Two guys in Canada dress up as Santa Claus and hand out surprise gifts to strangers. There is humanity in the world! Happy Holidays everyone.
Culture Buzz Bulldogs are like elves that have been adorably deformed through centuries of inbreeding. Thanks to their prodigious drooling, Santa's lap will be wetter than usual.
Santa has moves. The Salvation Army would be swimming in it if they had this guy on every street corner.
Culture Buzz Santas behaving badly. Egg nog tastes much worse the second time around.
Culture Buzz Old timey photos of Santa Claus that you'll either find cockle-warming or ho ho horrifying. Mostly horrifying.
Culture Buzz Nope, not polar bears living in Santa's village, but burly and frequently shirtless Papa Noels who enjoy body piercings. These are all Safe For Work pieces of fan art, excepting a few cartoon asses. Don we now our gay apparel! No ho-ho.
Culture Buzz A bunch of people in various stages of Santa-themed undress ran a charity marathon over the weekend through Astoria, New York. Probably because it was cold outside, stockings did not appear to be stuffed. OR Warm your hands on some yule logs. OR You don't want to see what's in Santa's sack. Et cetera, et cetera.
A Finnish horror fantasy with Peeter Jakobi as Santa Claus, written and directed by Jalmari Helander. It actually looks surprisingly good! I can't wait to see Santa go crazy on these people. (Via.)