Halloween is over, folks are decorating for Christmas, and winter snow is almost upon us - and I'm developing the LeverMind Variety Show featuring Santa Libertas.

For the CONSUMER CULTURE episode (LeverMind 006 Santa Libertas On Consumer Culture - needs a better and pithy title) I'll be drafting up a video essay script that Santa will recite - one sentence at a time, in front of one house at a time - to be cut together into a dynamic presentation.

Not just any houses. The MOST over-the-top Christmas decorations in Windsor. The visual apex and epitome of consumer culture, unabashedly, on full display. Every year some websites list them for families to tour by. Plus Jackson Park get completely lit up (I shot some there last year - haven't even looked at the footage).

Windsor is the mildest weather in Canada, so we don't get a lot of snow - so I must make the most of it when the limited opportunities arise. (I may even make a road trip north to shoot in front of decadently decorated houses in more-snowy cities.)

I have to dig back through my notes to find what good or novel takes and references I have on Consumer Culture, but I just don't recall anything at the moment otherwise I'd provide it as example(s).

With or without standard intros, catch phrases, humourous bits, and other series' consistencies, fundamentally every Santa Libertas essay must have critical 5 parts:

• greetings and introduction/overview
• awareness of problem(s)
• background on problem(s) for contextual understanding
• alternatives, compromises, solutions, tradeoffs, etc.
• hopeful conclusion

While we're at these free-of-charge over-decorated locations, in addition to the one-sentence + one-house night-shoot in the snow for the video essay, I'll also be getting a LOT of extra B-roll clips to be utilized in other videos. Whether it's a visual gag with/without audio (Santa dancing, jumping, interacting with a decoration character, mugging for the camera, etc.) or a stock-footage scenario (Santa walks/runs across the screen). Santa will also spit out a whole bunch of different takes with a big list of common phrases, hot takes, interjections, and segues to be intercut in future episodes. (An inspirational example is Monty Python's "And now for something completely different.")

To the point:

• I welcome all ideas, inspirations, references, etc. for Santa's video essay on consumer culture.
• I welcome all ideas for visual gags and bits for Santa to perform in front of insane Christmas-decorated homes.
• I welcome all ideas for common phrases for Santa to say that can be cut into future episodes.

Also, if you feel extremely festive you can Buy Santa a camera?