Easter Fun: The Life of Jesus in Lego

Jesus Easter EggsThe truly great stories have always inspired creative reinterpretation and re-telling in a variety of media; the Easter story is no exception.

From paintings by Caravaggio and Bacon to the literal re-enactments that take over the Philippines every year, to the singin’, dancin’ disciples in Godspell, to the current Gitmo-referencing Manchester production, the story of the death of Jesus has been interpreted in virtually every art form known to humanity. Even Blogging!

And now, Lego.Brick Testament The Last Supper

At a reported cost of over ten thousand dollars, this American (well, what else could he be?) minister has recreated not only the life of Jesus, but much of the Bible in Lego.

For Easter we have the Last Supper, the Arrest of Jesus, the Trial, the Crucifixion (what an odd word to know how to spell. I mean, how often do you use it, eh? And yet I bet you know how to spell it?), the Empty Tomb, and the Final Appearance. These are only details, you’ve gotta go to the source for the real deal. Simon Peter has that hot Miami Vice stubble thing going on, as well as some major Austin Powers chest hair. Hawt.

As anyone who’s ever compared different biblical translations can attest (or is that “witness“?) the picture you get from the whole is substantially different from the picture you get from the snippets.

God is indeed in the details, but he’s also the original Big Picture Guy!

Brick Testament Last Supper

 The Last Supper

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 The Arrest of Jesus

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 The Trial of Jesus

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 The Crucifixion

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 The Empty Tomb, OMG OMG OMG!

The Final Appearance

The Final Appearance 

Easter Fun: Cthulhu Peeps

I'm not big on the Peeps, myself, but Americans love them. They must contain some chemical that counteracts the PCBs in their beer or sumpin'. Anyway, here is a kind of Peep designed to tempt even me. How can anyone resist? It would be futile.

Cthulhu Peeps, resistance is futile

Easter Celebration: Wizard of Oz Dressup Jesus!

Because the Good Lord is a Friend of Dorothy‘s too!Friend of Dorothy

Just in time for Good Friday (what’s Saturday anyway? Good Saturday? As someone said today, it’s Easter, it’s all good) Normal Bob announces the Wizard of Oz Dress Up Jesus paper doll.

Fun for the whole family, except that humourless Aunt Bertha, you remember her: the one with the nasty pillbox hat that looks like it was crocheted from plastic shopping bags and who always buys you an acrylic sweater two sizes too small that still smells like mothballs from the St. Vincent de Paul store for your birthday. Yeah, she’ll probably see this, have a snit fit, leave early in a huff and go home to the one-bedroom apartment she shares with that rangy woman who taught phys ed at the one-room schoolhouse.

But it must be said, there is an element of the sacreligious here. I mean, tighty whities? Would Our Lord wear cheap cotton jersey Y-fronts to swaddle the Holy Gonch?

The Holy…Quadruplicity????

The Blogosphere is marking Holy Week with one hell of a roundup. First the Judas Gospels teaser then the Da Vinci case (is that da Da Vinci case?), and finally Cthulhu peeps. Those, ladies and gentlemen, were warmups.

For this:

Pantera, Father of God...is it the one on the left?

According to some nutty religio-cryptarchaeologist, Jesus‘ real father was Pantera. Well, something had to account for their popularity, eh? Ever heard their music? Divine intervention might just do it.

This Easter is turning out to be especially grim for those who worship a virgin Jesus who was executed and then came back from the dead.

Between the outrageous heresy of the Gospel of Judas, disturbing scientific investigations of Jesus’ alleged crucifixion, mundane explanations for his miracles and the latest media circus around “The Da Vinci Code” and “Holy Blood, Holy Grail,” it was already a very bad spring for Christians.

It just got worse. A stunning new book by religious-history archeologist Dr. James A. Tabor — “The Jesus Dynasty: A New Historical Investigation of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity” — went on sale this week.

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Just as Osama bin Laden means “Osama, son of Laden,” the name Jesus bar Pantera means “Jesus, son of Pantera.”

And apparently, it’s all the fault of the bloody Germans. Well, it would be. (is xenophobia good for hits? Guess we’ll find out eh?)

God Bless the Atheists

Black JesusThis fellow makes a holy handcart full of sense.

Even though I think the charges involved are appropriate, I support his premise that what the Evangelists are doing is on the same level. I'm just more of a bitch.

I happen to think it's illegal harassment when some dude fondles your shoulder and prays over you even when you ask him not to.

What's legal for Evangelists should be legal for Satanists

The guy asked if he could pray with me for my continued success.White Satanist, Marilyn Manson

"No thanks, bud, I'm an atheist," I told him, hoping the conversation would end there…he placed one hand on my shoulder and started praying out loud.

…These kids need a good, swift kick in their pentagrams … What they did was rude and ill-conceived, but I'm not so convinced it was illegal.

And anyway, if being obnoxious about faith is against the law, there's not enough jail cells in the state for all the pushy believers out there.