Since I?m so used to such somber and solemn radio pieces, I wasn?t really into it at first. I was waiting for some facts and narration? but was surprised when I heard personal accounts of what happened when children?s innocence was shattered. The narrator(s) are basically non-existent in this piece. It bothered me a little, but then again, the piece IS only two minutes long.

This piece flows very well. After a while, because the music compliments the theme of the piece so well, I forget that it even exists. I became more focused on the anecdotes. No microphone movement was heard, no voices going in and out of the microphone. No overly loud background sound? just cheery responses to how Chicagoan youths idea of Santa Claus?s existence was shattered like other urban dreams, like the Easter Rabbit and Tooth Fairy.

Chris, Porsha, and Jasmine created a very jocular and light-hearted piece about something that people don?t really think about ? who it was that killed Santa Claus for them. It puts me back in the winter of the mid-nineties, back when my older cousin unsympathetically boasted about how jolly ole Saint Nick didn?t exist because she assisted my mother and grandmother in wrapping the gifts. I was hopelessly devastated for about two weeks? so disheartening and disappointing, especially since I was only in about the third grade?