November 18, 2004

Image of Virgin Mary on old toast fetching thousands of hits on ebay The end of civilization is surely upon us.

I remember when on Married with Children Al sweated Elvis on his T-shirt and caused a stampede to see it. It was just a joke. Now it's real.

posted by kamus 20 years ago
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  • A rolling double post gathers no mold.
  • Perhaps now is the time to introduce you all to a short film that I made a few years ago, The Milagro of Boyle Heights. Yes, it is a self post. Big fucking deal.
  • Double posts should be invitations to self posts.
  • One time in college, during a heavy snowstorm, I had eaten a handful of mushrooms and went outside for a walk. After a couple of hours, I looked at the freshly swept sidewalk beneath my feet and noticed the infinite depth and detail of the crack between sidewalk tiles, each rocky concretous crevice hiding ever-deeper structural imperfections, each with their own obscured damage, unto infinity — I imagined I could not only see but feel the entire structure in totality, having glanced however briefly into the weather-beaten face of an insane God. My challenge ever since has been to figure out how to auction this gnostic experience on eBay.
  • The plot summary of Milagro sounds familiar. Is it based on an actual alleged tortilla Christ sighting? Also, having seen the recommended movie, I had to wonder at: If you like this title, we also recommend... Stigmata (1999)
  • Or the Woody Allen written "Picking Up the Pieces" (written under an alias).
  • Wouldn't really compare them (my film vs Stigmatta), with the exception of the religious catholic imagery. If anything, it is like a short Milagro Beanfield War. It was based on several different sightings, all filtered through my tweaked mind. My film is more or less a comedy, but pays respect to those who belive in these sorts of things.
  • What is HILARIOUS is how many other auctions are taking advantage(?) of this story. Just try to do an eBay search for: "grilled cheese virgin" and see how many auctions you get. I'm too scared to do a GOOGLE search using those terms
  • I stupid, stupid, stupid I admit it- took a cursory look at the FPPs, didn't search (I don't need no stinkin' search) and voila, I'm busted Please delete my egregious transgression and take away all my bananas
  • Fuck it kamus. No furries. Everything is everything.
  • There ya go, Kamus. That'll teach ya. Your punishment will be to pick up all the banana peels for the evening. Ebay will take care of the ones with brown spots in the shape of JC or the Virgin.
  • Who cares if the virgin is on a cheese sandwich or tortilla. Smear it with some of this and you won't care one way or the other.
  • Frequent visualizing a deity and doing so with frequency may let ye see things other folk won't see. So I never query people who see the Virgin Mary; and I'm always impressed at people seeing Jesuses in knotholes, or in toasted cheeseses.
  • Beeswacky's witty doggerel (monkeyrel?) reminded me of a cheese shop in Nazereth, PA called Cheeses of Nazareth They had bumper stickers that said "Honk if you love cheeses" The town made them change their name
  • Bad puns can bring out the worst in some folk, alas.
  • Virgin Mary, my ass. It's Marlene Deitrich. Ya don't believe me? Go see both pictures together. Kinda self linky, but I had to get the pictures together-like.
  • moneyjane: I was thinking along the same lines, but I was thinking Bette Davis.
  • kamus, if my town had a Cheeses of Nazareth with that bumper sticker, I would go nowhere else for my Cheese.