Santa Clause is Coming, Er, Came to Town

Ah, Christmas.  A time full of mirth and merriment (otherwise known as "cheer").  There are Santas popping up all over the place, including this creepy "peeping Santa" that is attached to some industrial shop by Intercity mall.  It's hard to tell, but he's looking off to the right.  To me, it looks like he's conspiring.  Conspiring to sweep your mom off her feet and turn her into a reindeer on xmas eve.

This Santa reminds me that anything in a larger-than-life size is kind of scary.  I know - Santa is already the biggest, reddest, hairiest, loudest man in the world other than the members of ZZ Top, but there is something about a 20 foot tall Santa that gives me the woogies. 

It reminds me of the Stay Puft marshmallow man from ghostbusters.

Look at those New Yorkers running in fear.  Run, New Yorkers, Run - lest he smite you with sugary goodness on Gozer the Gozarian's whim.

Every year, parents all over the world smite their children by making them sit on Santa's lap and some brilliant blogger has made all that terror and pleading available to the masses in a few easy clicks of the mouse on SketchySantas.com.  "Sketchy Santas" posts pictures of nightmares in the making.  If you have any sketchy Santa photos in your collection, I highly recommend that you send them in.  Perhaps your childhood nightmare could make some hipster's day.