Ummmm...

[kitanzi]

SPIDERMAN - EXPOSED!

http://www.portlandmercury.com/2002-05-02/feature4.html

I am purely and utterly speechless. (Yes, it's work safe. But don't be drinking anything.)

Comments

[porpentine.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately? I was drinking. Where are those paper towels...

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Told you so. *G*

[callibr8]

I wasn't drinking. But I didn't find it any more incredible than some of the other fundamentalist propaganda I've run afoul of.

Just thought I oughta put in my .02, since I'm *from* the town where this paper is published. (Wanna hardcopy?)

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

"fundamentalist propaganda"?

Surely, this is satire. You cannot convince me someone expected me to take that seriously!

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

If someone's intending this as serious propaganda rather than a spoof, I think they've seriously miscalculated. Personally, I took it as a sacreligious sort of joke, poking fun at that sort of propaganda.

[callibr8]

Okay, okay, satire... but I *have* had close encounters with fundamentalist propaganda which I thought was similarly over-the-top, yet the proponent was taking completely seriously. :(

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Ouch! You could be right about this one, I just really have a hard time believe it myself.

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

That would have something to do with whether you saw it as fundamentalist
propaganda or satire, wouldn't it? Not being a fan of either character, I'm
not really sure what to make of it.

BTW, has anyone seen the short film Starsky & Jesus? Or was it Jesus & Hutch?
Now that was scary, although Chosen One thought it was hilarious.

Ann O. (a Recovering Catholic :)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Jesus and Hutch, I think - and if it's the one I saw (very short, like seven minutes? in the format of a trailer, essentially?) I thought it was very funny too!

de gustibus...

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

Yep, Jesus & Hutch (2000). It was really short (fortunately? :).
Directed and written by Paul Harrison. "Jesus is back. And this time
He's fighting crime with his trusted partner, Hutch." It starred
Tate Donovan as Hutch and Eric Stoltz as Jesus.

Maybe if I had had any interest in the original, it might have been
funny. Apparently, they reenacted a number of famous scenes from the
original. Being who I am, though, the scene with Jesus pointing a gun
at someone, saying "I love you, man." and then blowing the guy away
was just a bit too close to reality for my (in its own way) warped
sense of humor.

Ann O. (an outlier when it comes to violence and religion)

[rms-butterfly.livejournal.com]

That is just insane! Thanks for sharing! :-)