Saturday, November 27, 2004
Images on Toast
I was planning to blog about the sale on e-bay of the virgin Mary's cheese toast likeness (for an astounding $28,000) when I came across Kevin's blog via a comment he left on ZS yesterday. Kevin makes some very pertinent observations.
Believers allege that she has used her almighty powers to emboss her vague likeness on a greasy grilled cheese sandwich which is now up for auction on Ebay. I question the modus operandi of the divine. Why is it that Mary and Jesus show up on oil slicks, mud puddles and sandwiches but are conspicuously absent when 3000 people are desperately praying for their lives in a burning, crumbling skyscraper with an exploded jetliner in its side? Believers tell me that unexpected intervention is part of the divine mystery.
To me, the mystery is how a virgin smudge can so inspire capitalistic commerce. Today if you search Ebay with the words "mary" and "cheese" there are 319 items for sale, including the virgin mary's gum and Mary's alleged face in a piece of steak...
Instead of gracing the buffet it would be good for holy icons to focus their efforts on straightening out this foul planet. Children die everyday from preventable disease and starvation. Instead of showing up on the cheese sandwich, maybe she could show up in Sudan with a bottomless basket of them. Then I'd be sold.
Kevin's post also includes never before seen images of Elvis on toast, Yasser Arafat on a falafel and the Olsen twins on cheese toast.
Believers allege that she has used her almighty powers to emboss her vague likeness on a greasy grilled cheese sandwich which is now up for auction on Ebay. I question the modus operandi of the divine. Why is it that Mary and Jesus show up on oil slicks, mud puddles and sandwiches but are conspicuously absent when 3000 people are desperately praying for their lives in a burning, crumbling skyscraper with an exploded jetliner in its side? Believers tell me that unexpected intervention is part of the divine mystery.
To me, the mystery is how a virgin smudge can so inspire capitalistic commerce. Today if you search Ebay with the words "mary" and "cheese" there are 319 items for sale, including the virgin mary's gum and Mary's alleged face in a piece of steak...
Instead of gracing the buffet it would be good for holy icons to focus their efforts on straightening out this foul planet. Children die everyday from preventable disease and starvation. Instead of showing up on the cheese sandwich, maybe she could show up in Sudan with a bottomless basket of them. Then I'd be sold.
Kevin's post also includes never before seen images of Elvis on toast, Yasser Arafat on a falafel and the Olsen twins on cheese toast.
