Mood:  energetic

We welcome you back to the KringleQuest Blog, where from time to time we get intimate and showcase a few of the things we here on the KringleQuest team have encountered since sharing prior adventures with you.

Of course, our most significant event here in the Kringleverse was the passing, in May 2011, of veteran Kringle Roger Franklin, who for 22 incredible seasons held court as the celebrated "Dean of New York City's Santas," headquartered as he was at Lower Manhattan's South Street Seaport. The loss of Roger Franklin meant far much more to KQ Beyond's Founding Elf, Richard Washington:

"Roger was, simply, my Santa Sensei," Richard explained. Sensei is the Japanese term for 'teacher' or 'mentor.' "He taught me everything I've ever believed in in terms of how to become a great Santa Claus."

2011 also sees actor Charles Edward Hall marking his 25th Anniversary as the longest-serving Santa Claus in Radio City Music Hall history. As part of the celebration, director/choreographer Linda Haberman has decided to shake up this year's Radio City Christmas Spectacular by giving the beloved Rockettes a new, original story emphasizing the girls' athletic prowess: "The Rockettes' Magical Journey," the centerpiece of which places the girls into a 3D-videogame adventure, "Humbugged: Rockettes to the Rescue," wherein the ladies embark on a mission to free Santa's toys from the clutches of the nasty Humbug King and his loyal minions.

There is one other farewell to bring to our visitors' attention: In late October, our colleague Dharmesh shut down the former Superman Cinema website, once more expressing his desire to move on with his life. We wish Dharmesh nothing but the best.

That's all from KringleQuest: The Blog for now. Don't forget to like The KQ Group on Facebook --- and look us up on Twitter as well!  

Posted by kringlequest at 12:22 PM EST

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Greetings, visitors to KringleQuest: The Blog. This item I have deemed too risque for posting via normal means; hence, its inclusion in the KQ Blog. Pay attention, as I will have my own thoughts on this in a moment:

INCLINE VILLAGE, NEVADA (PRWEB), July 16th, 2010

A Christian Bishop, Monk, and child advocate whose legal name is in fact Santa Claus is taking Pope Benedict XVI to task for what Bishop Claus describes as His Holiness' "continued moral failure to address urgent children's issues within the Roman Catholic Church."

Bishop Santa emphasizes that the Pope's unwillingness to address this worldwide issue in a meaningful, productive manner has demonstrated a long-standing, profound moral failure --- one shared by many leaders and clergy of other major denominations.

In the U.S., between 1950 and 2009, the Catholics have paid over $2.6 billion to settle claims of abuse by clergy, have obstructed civil and criminal investigations, and often filed for bankruptcy in order to avoid making court-ordered payments to survivors of clergy abuse. "Clearly," observes Bishop Santa, "the Roman Catholic Church is more concerned with protecting its own clergy and assets rather than protecting vulnerable children." Accordingly, the Jolly Old Bishop has resolved "to explore and utilize a variety of legal means to hold the Church, the Pope and the Vatican especially, accountable for the suffering of many thousands of vulnerable children at the hands of clergy, straight and gay, young and old, celibate or not."

There's more to this, and a lot of it can be found at http://www.thesanta.im --- but let me just get my two cents in on this: The Roman Catholic Church stopped being sensible centuries ago, I fear. For all the iconic tales told across the cosmos of their many deeds, good and evil, there tends to be a time when, left unchecked, a great and powerful entity allows itself with the passage of time to be destroyed from within, and unquestionably, that is the case here. Whether or not it will be instrumental in bringing about the fall of Benedict's papacy is for others to determine.

That this bishop in Nevada who calls himself Santa Claus is speaking out in this manner is unprecedented at best and controversial at worst. Bottom line, people: there are some lines that just aren't meant to be crossed............ 

Posted by kringlequest at 12:23 PM EDT

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Mood:  energetic

Well, fans of Santa Claus: The Movie, it's been a while since I last blogged here in KringleQuest: The Blog. We've had a whole mess of Celebrate Santa photos and videos sent across the Planet, Ilya Salkind is preparing a new Santa Claus movie, and there's still the 52nd World Santa Claus Congress at Bakken in Denmark still to come.

In short, fellow Vendequm viewers, not much rest for this Jolly Ol' Elf! Still, I hope those of you checking us out will tell your friends about us. Remember, our address is http://kringlequest.tripod.com. C'mon and join us!

Richard

Posted by kringlequest at 2:38 PM EDT

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