Dear Santa,

 We of the Ski Nation feel like we’re pretty tight with you. We love snow, and you seem to like it too or the North Pole would be a strange choice. I know you’re kind of a one-trick pony as far as days that you deliver presents, but we’re a selfish bunch and we look for our presents year round.

You’ve definitely been delivering, that’s not our issue. But what we can’t figure out is whether we’ve been naughty or nice. You seem to be wrapping our shiny presents in coal, and vice versa. So, you bipolar rosy-cheeked freak, we’re going to need some explanations:

 Thanks for “Asian” Allen Lam and his willingness to take all the “rollerblader” epithets. Kid’s got rubber knees and we know your elves had something to do with that. But then he starts up his own webisode series, and he talks more than the cast of a Nimbus film. How are we supposed to take that?

 You’ve really delivered with some rail diversity. We’ve had this one on the list for years, and you seem to finally have gotten off your ass. Of course, every kid with a crook or 50 in his game has also seen one too many Technine edits. Why do I have to watch men in dresses if I want to see something other than a pretzel? Am I being tested? You’re a strange bastard Santa.

 Traveling Circus kicks ass. You came through better than that time I got the Macho Man Randy Savage wrestling man with clothesline action. I also can’t complain about Durtschi Diaries- sometimes you really know how to bring a smile to young Jonny’s face. But then there’s the matter of Chug Life. Was I really that bad? I know I change the channel when that “feed the children” ad comes on, but who doesn’t? I can’t deserve this.

 Your elves have been wearing those funny shoes for years, and it’s awesome how you’ve let us bite their style with our fancy rocker skis. Is it a gimmick? Probably, but so were pogs and I was happy as shit the year you brought me my new slammer. But where is all the park rocker? Snowboarding gets to go full bore with this gimmick and we get a few limited offerings as an afterthought in everybody’s 2010 line. If Line doesn’t make me a park rocker ski for next year…I might stop believing in you. I’m that serious.

Don’t test me old man.