Santa Stalin or Hitler Claus?

We finally saw Polar Express, which was, overall, an amusing experience. Peculiar animation, some rather goofy moments, a character playing a lute-backed hurdy-gurdy (wins big points from me for that), overall worth seeing once.

However, the images of Santaklausstadt in the North Pole were kind of creepy, as in Albert Speer-choreographed creepy. "Heil Santa!" He even appeared in a Leni Riefenstahlesque manner. I mentioned this last night to a friend who replied, "no, I think it is a more Stalinisitic Santa."

Either way, very creepy, and immediately gets my demented little brain working overtime, thinking up other twists on the already twisted commercialized world of Secularchristmas.

Perhaps in the Speer-designed world of the North Pole they gather around and sing "Adolf, the Blue-Eyed Reindeer." The movie is much like the classic Rudolph, except that in the end absolutely everyone dies, and takes three hours doing it with bizarre remote-key modulations built around the deceptive use of dominant seventh resolutions, and then the author comes out and talks about the culmination of art, music, religion and myth for another eight hours.

Now, the proof that Santa is a commie is well known (wears red, distributes toys evenly to all the children, something else. I can't remember exactly). But can you see him chortling "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh!" Or "Mao-ey Christmas!"

No, this is not how the television show goes, but we all know, "the revolution will not be televised."

And whitey's on the moon.