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Kid Could Care Less About Santa’s Whereabouts, Would Rather Talk to First Lady

by Susana Polo | 11:41 am, December 26th, 2012

Look, we think Michelle Obama is pretty cool, but if you asked us whose visit any Christmas-celebrating child would have on their mind on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, she wouldn’t make the top of our list. The top of our list would be Santa. Not so for Anthony of Fort Worth, Texas. How do we know this?

Well, because of the NORAD Santa Tracker, kind of.

Things We Saw Today: Mr. T as Santa Claus

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:30 pm, December 25th, 2012

I pity the fool who doesn’t put cookies out for Mr. T. (via Stanley Chow)

Man Discovers That Santa He Visited 13 Years Ago Is Now His Father-In-Law

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:00 pm, December 24th, 2012

The world is full of coincidences but this one might take the cake.

Things We Saw Today: Wheatley Catch

by Jamie Frevele | 5:29 pm, December 31st, 2011

It was a good year for video games. By Sage. (via Diary of a Death Starlette)

How the Whole “NORAD Tracks Santa” Thing Started

by Jamie Frevele | 3:58 pm, December 24th, 2011

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or, well, don’t ever go online or watch the news), you probably know about how NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command — don’t ask, we know it doesn’t match). But I’ll bet you had no idea how or why NORAD started tracking the insanely improbable gift-giving route of our favorite jolly old elf, Santa Claus. Well, it all started with a Sears advertisement and a total misunderstanding.

Best Way to Mess With Loved Ones This Christmas: Robocalls From Santa, Courtesy of Google

by Jamie Frevele | 3:59 pm, December 17th, 2011

Attention parents of small children, children who have “figured out the Santa thing,” or people in general who like the holidays and/or want to play a prank on their friends: Google has given you a great gift in the form of Santa Claus robocalls! Now you can customize a personal message at Send a Call From Santa and have “Santa” call someone you know! Maybe a skeptical kid you know (we’re looking at you, Susan Walker from Miracle on 34th Street)! Or you can be more direct for the man in the red suit and leave him a Google voicemail, telling him exactly what you want for Christmas in hopes that somehow, maybe, you can spend your holiday at least deluding yourself into joy!

Sign of the Times: Mall Santas Taking Austerity Measures

by Susana Polo | 12:56 pm, December 3rd, 2011

From the New York Times comes an article on how even mall Santas are having to step up their game in hard economic times. And we don’t mean using limited seasonal pay to open pensions and 401(k) accounts. Although they do: the adult students of Charles W. Howard Santa Claus school look forward to training on everything from the best way to bleach your hair white, to supporting yourself on seasonal pay, to the history of the modern idea of Santa Claus. But lately, according to the Times, they’ve been swapping stories on how to prepare children for not getting everything they want on Christmas morning, prompted by the worried, pleading looks of their guardians.

Merry Christmas?

6 Infamous Superman Beards

by Susana Polo | 2:08 pm, October 6th, 2011

Recent set photos from Man of Steel give us a look at Henry Cavill, bedraggled and be-beard-eld, leading many to speculate that Steel‘s Clark Kent is going to be spending healthy chunk of his movie searching for the meaning in his life and super-life. And we could have joined in on the speculation but instead we found ourselves thinking wistfully of all the other times Superman has had a beard and giggling in a way most unbecoming.

We present: Six Infamous Superman Beards.

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