Run, Jesus Run!

Go here to play Run Jesus Run: aka the 10 second gospel. The speedrun is by Andy Baio.

*Previously: Passover roundup.

*Buy Jesus toys at eBay.

Passover roundup

1. Download Exodus 2.0, a "special Idelsohn mixtape to help you celebrate Passover. Perfect for any seder." Via.

2. Download a 48-page Passover workbook. Via.

3. Matzoh Brei with Caramelized Apples recipe.

4. Apparently, the meal served at the Last Supper has grown in artistic interpretations over the last 1,00 years.

*Buy Moses toys at eBay.

Funny and provocative comments about Lost

First, go here for a very funny summary of this week's episode, Recon. For example:

Except, I’m pretty sure that Charles Widmore didn’t get to be the owner of his own private submarine by immediately putting all his faith into handshake deals with grown men who call complete strangers “Freckles.”

That night, at the campfire, Sawyer reveals to Kate that he is actually playing BOTH SIDES. Classic long con. He is going to let Locke and Charles Widmore kill each other, and then he and Kate are going to escape the island once and for all. “Oh, Sawyer, even if we could get on that plane, who would fly it?” Kate asks. “We ain’t taking the plane, Cinnabon, we’re taking the sub.” And then dramatic music fades in. HAHAHHA, THE SUB?! WHUUUUUUUUUUUT? Probably the funniest ending of an episode ever. “We’re not taking the plane, Pinkberry, we’re taking the sub.” I wonder how many takes they had to do for Sawyer’s delivery to be INTENSE enough.

And then go here for a more thoughtful exploration of the episode. For example:

FUN FACT! The legend of the Fisher King — the guardian of the Holy Grail, or enchanted spring — holds that there are two custodians at any one time. There is a king, and there is a knight. Sometimes they are father and son. For some reason, the natural order of things requires the Fisher King to have an infirmity that makes him incapable of moving. He has an injury to his leg, foot, or groin. The job of the Grail Knight is to heal the Fisher King. But alas, Grail Knights are known to get distracted by selfishness or missions of vengeance and neglect their duty to the Fisher King. When this happens, the kingdom becomes infertile. No flowers; no babies. Oh, and the abode where the king and knight live pops in and out of reality, at different times and places. One more thing? The Fisher King is called the Fisher King because he fishes. A lot. Mostly to pass the boring-ass time guarding the grail. THEORY! Jacob was the Fisher King. Smokey was his knight. Smokey became disenchanted, neglected his duties, wanted out, conspired to kill the Fisher King to earn that freedom.

*Previously: Smokey the Lost Bear.

*Buy Lost toys at eBay.

Jesus Fish/Ray Gun stickers (link roundup)

Jesus Fish/Ray Gun stickers by Travis Pitts on sale at Etsy.

And a few more links:

1. Strange experiment at Gawker. Most (all?) of their blogs switched to partial rss feeds, but also made full feeds available. Just a test to see how many people would bother switching over? Here's the new full feeds:

Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/vip
Gawker: http://feeds.gawker.com/gawker/vip
Deadspin: http://feeds.gawker.com/deadspin/vip
Kotaku: http://feeds.gawker.com/kotaku/vip
Gizmodo: http://feeds.gawker.com/gizmodo/vip

and so on.

2. A Michigan school district was ordered to pay $800,000 to a student who was bullied for years. Via.

3. Batman as Venom illustration.

*Previously: Ghostbusters versus Jesus.

*Buy Gustave Dore's illustrated Bible at Amazon.

Jesus Christ Superstar Wars

The Bible meets Star Wars on this t-shirt by Mark Skipper. If you'd like the chance to buy it, vote by clicking on the voting widget:



*Previously: Attack of the 50 foot Slave Leia.

*Buy Star Wars sketch cards at eBay.

Kirby-esque Moses (link roundup)

Marc Basile channeled Jack Kirby to draw to draw Moses. Relatedly, Kirby-esque Charlton Heston; Kirby Draws God. Via.

And a few more links:

1. A pictorial trip to a Korean sex hotel, with a very small door.

2. Rave reviews for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and Mass Effect 2.

3. Lightsaber Lost, this week's episode of Clone Wars was excellent. You can watch it here.

*Previously: The Accidental Video Game Sex Blog.

*Buy Jack Kirby posters at eBay.

Japanese poster for How to Train Your Dragon (link roundup)

Japanese poster for How to Train Your Dragon. Lilo and Stitch is possibly my alltime favorite animated movie, so I'm looking forward to this one. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Letter written in code as part of the Bioshock 2 ARG.

2. Promising baseball prospect Grant Desme is leaving the A's farm system to become a Catholic priest.

3. Not only was there a cartoon called Rocket Robin Hood, but an episode from Rocket Robin Hood was reused as a Spider-Man episode (third legend down).

*Previously: Japanese movie poster for Bullit.

*Buy Japanese movie posters at eBay.

Advertising roundup

Creepy clown mask used by 1789 to advertise Ads of the World.



Plastic "soldiers" turned into children playing by Y & R to support Unicef. Via.



Poster by Juniper Park for the Breast Fest, a film festival targeting breast cancer.



McCann Erickson co-opts Jesus for a little self-promotion. Via.



Advertisements co-opted and turned into vampire victims to promote Twilight.

*Buy army men at eBay.

Kanye mocks a lunch thief (link roundup)

Kanye mocks a lunch thief in this gem from Passive Aggressive Notes. Via.

And a few more links:

1. "A medusa or jelly Desmonema glaciale."

2. Evidence that the biblical flood really happened.

3. How Much Does It Cost to Climb Everest?

*Previously: When Kanye met Ackbar.

*Buy insult collections at Amazon.

Toronto Comics Art Festival posters (link roundup)

Gallery of Toronto Comics Art Festival posters through the years (including one by James Jean). Via.

And a few more links:

1. From Tucker Stone's weekly tv reviews:

The best part of the British version of Law & Order is the opening line, because the voice-over guy says "crown prosecutor" instead of "district attorney", and that confuses the American brain into thinking that one has fallen into a parallel universe . . . . And then the credits roll, and it gets worse, because the crown prosecutor is shown wearing those robes and those wigs that British people make their lawyers wear out of some thousand year old grudge, and it's just--nobody can watch that. Seriously, nobody can watch that. It's horrible. So turn it off, and wait for the day that Dick Wolf gets sociopathic enough to produce a Law & Order spin off set in some former Eastern Bloc country.

2. A handy resource for The Golden Rule in most of the world's major religions.

3. Google will apparently start directly selling a new Android phone called "Nexus One." Which makes this a good time to repost this: San Francisco mayoral candidates (including Gavin Newsom) being subjected to the Voight-Kampff Test.

*Previously: Blade Runner fan poster.

*Buy Blade Runner posters at eBay.

Jesus and Mary as luchadors

Luchador prayer candles by Pale Horse Design. Not yet on sale.

*Previously: Tiny candles.

*Buy prayer candles at Amazon.

Ancient Temples (link roundup)

Phrygian Tomb of Midas and rock tombs of Caria - - photographs of cliff-carved cave temples from ancient Greece and Turkey by Takeo Kamiya. Bldg Blog has context.

And a few more links:

1. A suggestion that the majority people who line up for Black Friday deals are simply planning on reselling the items.

2. Photos of a squirrel attacking a dog to protect its child.

3. Los Angeles police are looking for a serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper."

*Previously: Cliff House.

*Buy serial killer trading cards at Amazon.

Voltron reimagined (link roundup)

Redesigned Voltron by Chuck Lee.

And a few more links:

1. Enjoy the game trailer for Visions - A Christian MMO. Via these sites.

2. So a tauntaun walks into a bar.

3. Here's the website for the Alan Moore-published magazine Dodgem Logic. Via.

*Previously: Lego Voltron.

*Buy Voltron toys at eBay.

Plush Xenu

Plush Xenu by Cupco on sale for $65 each.

*Previously: Newspaperman reminisces about the Scientology spy.

*Buy Battlefield Earth toys at eBay.

Typewriter Monster (link roundup)

One of several typewriter monsters by Escuela de Creativos Brother advertising ... a writing contest maybe?

And a few more links:

1. Really excellent writing explaining the genius of Kubrick's editing in The Shining. Via.

2. Changes in religious rituals that have been ordered to combat the spread of swine flu.

3. NBC traded the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit for Al Michaels (the sports broadcaster). Via.

*Previously: Vintage Windows-Enabled Typewriter.

*Buy Oswald the Lucky Rabbit toys at eBay.

Watch Manu Ginobli knock a bat out of the air and then ... (link roundup)

A bat flew into San Antonio's arena. 1. Manu Ginobli knocked it right out of the air with his bare hand. 2. He handed it to a security guard. 3. The guard accepted it in his own bare hand.

And a few more links:

1. A theory that people kiss because it allows a swapping of germs that gives the woman a chance to build up an immunity to germs that might otherwise cause miscarriages. Via these sites.

2. The Dianetics & Scientology Holiday catalog. Via.

3. "Toyota has created a new plant species designed to offset the CO2 created by its Prius assembly operations." Via.

*Previously: Real life Andromeda Strain.

*Buy NBA bobbleheads at eBay.

Lego steampunk tank (link roundup)

"Napoleonic era heavy transporter" by lomero.

And a few more links:

1. Futuristic Lego tanks. Via.

2. Plush tree stump.

3. Venn Diagram compares Jesus, Frankenstein, Dracula, and mere zombies.

*Previously: Ben Franklin as Frankenstein.

*Buy Lego minifigs at eBay.

Mummy Meatloaf (link roundup)

Go here to find out how to make mummy meatloaf.

And a few more links:

1. There's a suspected 20' long Great White on the prowl near Australia - -you can see the hole it took out of another shark here. Via these sites.

2. I didn't get very far, but you can play a free adventure game based on Hansel & Gretel here. Via.

3. Flow chart will help determine which religion is right for you. Via.

*Previously: Poster and concept art for a Hansel and Gretel film project.

*Buy mummy posters at eBay.

Daft Punk art (link roundup)

Daft Punk art by Lee Davies. Here's Daft Punk in bumper cars, plus a hippy robot.

And a few more links:

1. Face of Jesus spotted in a bathroom door at Ikea, Glasgow. Via.

2. Part of some harsh Where the Wild Things Are criticism:

a vision of childhood from someone who hates children but remembers being depressed as a child and therefore feels a vague connection to depressed children.

3. A few of the Gates to The Underdeep.

*Previously: How to throw a fancy dress dinner party at Ikea.

*Buy Daft Punk toys at eBay.

Two-lane split (link roundup)

Nice trick bowling shot.

And a few more links:

1. Darth Nihilus sketch.

2. There's now a McDonald's at the Louvre. Increasingly, there's less and less of a reason to go anywhere on vacation.

3. Sunday October 4 was Washington's annual Red Mass, "which celebrates the legal profession," is scheduled just before the start of the Supreme Court's term, and is typically attended by many justices and other VIPs. (I tellya, no one does branding better than the Catholic church. Who could not be interested in something called The Red Mass?") Via.

*Previously: Catholic Coloring Books.

*Buy Darth Nihilus toys at eBay.