More from the Wayback Machine, circa 2005:
I have been cackling about this all day. The hot cultural excitement here in Our Town this week is the big "Bustin' Bricks fer Jesus" show over at one of our largest mainstream Protestant churches. It has been going on every night this week and has been heavily advertised on the local television station.
From the ads it appears to be a cross between a Jim and Tammy Fay Baker Demon Castin' show and a Hulk Hogan/World Wrestling Federation gala. Hot, oily, muscled wrestlers clad only in a pair of tiny Speedos karate chop bricks, boards and slabs of ice....then do a little witnessin' fer Je-HE-sus. I break up in hysterics when the ads come on. "Yew might be a redneck if....the WWF rassles at yer church."
I happened to have the TV muted and a Moody Blues album playing when one of these ads came on tonight. I nearly wet my pants in laughter when, at the exact moment the ad came on, the song "Isn't Life Strange" started. It was the perfect soundtrack for the ad.
I live for the delicious irony of the absurd.
"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
-- Horace Walpole (1717-1797), Letters
2 comments:
I passed by I see you are from LOWER Arkansas, I guess I am from HIGHER Arkansas.
Did the revivalist get all their rocks busted wonder if that is like getting your rocks off?
Merry Christmas to lower Arkansas from Higher Arkansas. Have a good day.
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