Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts

Saturday, November 21, 2009

In listening to some of the commentary of Rene Clair's film, À Nous La Liberté (1931), I learned that Chaplin once cited the following Disney film as an influence on Modern Times (1935).



It makes me think that the Santa story is itself the product of a modern state-industrial system. Before the modern machine age, Santa must have looked much different--perhaps even a craftsman.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Elf dung

Blogging will continue to be light as long as the global economic apocalypse continues. In fact, consider me on strike. Me and Santa.