Posts

Showing posts from December, 2024

Santa!!!

Image
I wasn't sure what I wanted to talk about this Christmas. But then I remembered I had written the following for Television Crossover Universe: Worlds and Mythology Volume II, a book that I started but then ran out of steam. The book is likely never to be published, but I put a lot of work into this essay which is complete so why not publish it here? THE TELEVISION CROSSOVER UNIVERSE TAKES A HOLIDAY: THE SANTA CLAUS MYTHOS Originally Presented in Ho Ho Ho! The Santa Blog and Easter Comes Late...The Bunny in the TVCU and inspired by Gordon Long’s Of Flying Reindeer, Talking Snowmen, and the World's Greatest Toymaker: The Rankin-Bass Universe Timeline "HO HO HO! Now, my friends, I will show you the way the real Santa Claus should look. Please! As if there was such a person as Santa Claus, which is of course absolutely ridiculous in a people's democracy!" Chairman Georgi Koz 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' When children believe that Santa Claus is real, he IS ...