Thursday, December 24, 2009

Psychedelic Santa

Although Coca Cola ads have played a large part in Santa Claus iconography, there are some who would aver that Santa Claus' appearance is based on the hallucinogenic Amanita muscaria mushroom.

Navigate over to any one of the sites linked above, and read the tale of the mushroom-costume wearing shaman who harnesses psychedelic urine-consuming flying reindeer to his sleigh, and enters the smoke-holes of the yurts of the world's children. No wonder the guy's so jolly!

Gather my children, come into the room
And hear of the saint who's dressed as a shroom.
He slides down the chimney and never gets hurt
The chimney's the smoke hole of a herder's yurt
The sleigh that he rides in, it surely can fly,
The reindeer that pull it are screamingly high.
Although dear St Nick is all strung out on drugs,
It could be much worse, kids, you could all be Thugs
The stoner who visits you is much more jolly,
Than four-armed, skull-necklaced bloodthirsty Kali.

5 comments:

Smut Clyde said...

Psychedelic Santa
Wasn't that a Hawkwind song?

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

I think you me Santa Machine.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Need I say "mean Santa Machine"?

M. Bouffant said...

and enters the smoke-holes of the yurts of the world's children

Veiled ref of some kind, but I don't want to figure it out.

Smut Clyde said...

Well I got a Santa machine
It flies sideways through time


A time-travelling sleigh certainly explains his ability to deliver presents so rapidly.

Still like Psychedelic Santas, though:

We're sick of politicians
promises that shift
All we do is get screwed up
delivering each gift

We're the psychedelic santas
And that ain't no joke
Travel with us to lands far out
And wreathe yourself in smoke