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Santacon, or Santarchy, happened over the weekend. People dressed up as St. Nick got drunk and roamed the streets of San Francisco.

Tons of Santas invade our Hooters.

Photos of Santarchy 2007

How do you feel about holiday music? We thought that KOIT started playing their 24/7 holiday programming a little early this year, but we do love randomly hearing Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad" in our car. There are two holiday albums out this year that we've been enjoying. If you're a fan of Sarah McLachlan, you should buy her holiday album Wintersong. The CD has several traditional holiday tunes, but we were pleasantly surprised by a cover of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" and "Christmas Time Is Here". And while no cover of Joni Mitchell's "River" can really improve on the original, it was still a nice inclusion. The other Christmas collection we highly recommend is Sufjan Stevens' Songs for Christmas. For around twenty bucks, you get 5 CDs gorgeously packaged with stickers, a poster and a singalong book. That's over 42 Sufjan Christmas tunes.

They respect no law of man or God. They hedonistically pursue pleasure and merriment at all costs. They look fantastic in red and white. They are the legions of Santas who have gathered every year here in San Franicisco since 1994. Any number of artists, writers, musicians, engineers, freaks and raging drunks have been in their number since, and the movement has spread worldwide, including an appearance in Antarctica. This year's festivities kicked off on the other side of the International Date Line in sunny Auckland, New Zealand.

“Christmas Bunny” outfit) needs an explanation, but we'll leave it up to one reveler to write what the point is: