I wanted to play a Christmas song for this week’s Sunday music and thought I’d replay a song that first ran here back in 2009. It’s Must Be Santa from Bob Dylan. It’s a great song, a polka with a klezmer feel and in the the entertaining video you get the bonus of seeing Dylan dance. Good fun for the day before Christmas.
While looking for an photo or two to accompany this post, I browsed through masses of images of Santas from the past and was amazed how many of them crossed that line into outright creepiness. It made me believe that Santa is just about on par with clowns in creep factor. You might see a rogue clown in the woods but Santa is, simply put, a bearded home intruder ( and flamboyant dresser) who slides down your chimney in the dark of night. He knows when you are sleeping, for god’s sake!
I picked a few that are pretty strange. I left out some that actually made me cringe and feel a little queasy. I have a feeling that many of their photos are also in some sort of registry somewhere.
Anyway, enjoy the song and have a good holiday evening. And don’t worry about the weird old man hovering around your home tonight…
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hahahaha…Merry Christmas all you boys and girls and artists!
Very true….enjoyed Bob Dylan! Merry Christmas to you and your family❣️
Dylan was born “Zimmerman” (his grandparents immigrated from Odessa because of the pogroms) so he came by the Klezmer bit — and the irony — honestly. I liked the bit at the end where the names of the reindeer included several Presidents. A very funny video. You certainly found some genuinely creepy Santa photos.
Merry Christmas and may Santa bring us all something that will extinguish that dumpster fire in the Oval Office.
When I still was in grade school, my dad suggested to me that I start leaving 7-Up with Santa’s cookies instead of milk. It was years before I understood that Santa was having himself a little Seagrams and Seven on Christmas Eve — and probably giving the cookies to my mother. Looking at some of these hilarious photos, I wonder if some of these Santas wouldn’t have been better off with a little drink — or perhaps they’d already had a few too many!