This thread is about Easter!

It's certainly been a weird one, this Easter. Mom and I went to Mass at 7:30 this morning and then went to eat breakfast with relatives. We then arrived home and I took a nap for a couple of hours. I just woke up about 30 minutes ago. Now I'm watching "The Most Outrageous Game Show Moments" on VH1 (a programming decision that doesn't make sense, but I like this particularly oddity) and wondering when it will start to feel like a typical Easter.

I wish we had an outdoor grill.

Oh, and I don't think Good Friday is a "bank holiday". It may be a day that banks and other places elect to take the day off, but I don't believe that Good Friday is actually a federal holiday (the U.S. equivalent of "bank holiday").

I'm starting on planting this year's flowers & vegtables out on my deck, and just ate a peanut butter filled chocolate egg.

My tiny garden so far: pot of lemon verbana, pot of chocolate mint, pot of sweet woodruff, seeds planted for carrots, chamomile, lots of wild flower mixes, and some carrots. Tomatos, zinnias and allyssum will wait until later, I think.

I have this image of a zombie Christ (a la George Romero) coming back to life to kick some ass.

And to top it all off - it's a Twin Peaks Thai restaurant! Photo to follow shortly...

Somebody made a joke that Passover is basically a celebration of mass murder which is funny and kind of true.

i was struck today that all the rastas singing about going 'back to africa' (a trend which sort of ground to a sudden halt c. 1980, making everyone retrospectively look like poseurs exc. burning spear and like two other people) is about as stupid as the jews in their comfy suburban homes reciting the 'next year in jerusalem' nonsense. like anything's stopping them.

"Easter is the Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon. The Paschal Full Moon may occur from March 21 through April 18, inclusive. Thus the date of Easter is from March 22 through April 25, inclusive."

The Paschal Full Moon is not necessarily the, um, actual full moon -- it's determined with an algorithm which assumes a 19-year lunar cycle. John XXIII suggested making Easter a fixed date at Vatican II, but the suggestion was shot down.

I win.

Speaking of vaguely Bible-related movies, we watched Last Temptation of Christ today in honor of Easter, and although I dig the movie, I always forget how frickin slow it is. There are some fun scenes (all of the Harry Dean Stanton ones, for instance), but I mostly wandered in and out of the kitchen making dinner.

The best Jesus film was the one that starred Christian Bale. I believe that was Mary Mother of God but I forget.

The last version of Jesus I saw was part of a TV movie (miniseries, maybe) with the guy who plays Brenda's brother in Six Feet Under. It didn't work.

i do not expect anyone but christians to realize the signifigance of this, and i think its impt to have a its warm lets fuck and farm spring holiday, but i dont know, it shouldnt be easter.

how are passover and easter realted on the calendar ?

But why not anthony? Isn't that the point - the joy, the renewal?

Yeah, it's actually ILX: The Movie.

The best Christ movie, IMHO, is "King of Kings", which was really revolutionary for its time in that it actually had a teen heartthrob cast in the role of Jesus the Lord, but remains timeless for its quality and comparative lack of melodrama.

To me, what makes Easter is the Mass. I could not in good conscience make it through an Easter without Mass, not even if I were laid up in the intensive care unit of a hospital. Someone would have to wheel me into a service before I could go back to sleep.

Well, I did end up making it to an Easter celebration in the mid-afternoon. I'm still stuffed. They had barbecued everything, it seemed, plus potato salad, pasta salad, Spanish rice, pinto beans, pico de gallo, radishes, and a green onion & olive tray. I ate two pieces of barbecued chicken and the pasta salad and Spanish rice before tucking away into four little Hershey's Kisses for dessert.

Am I going to run everywhere tomorrow? Absolutely. I will also subsist on solely celery sticks and carrots as well.

i feel bad.

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/images/twinpeaksthai.jpg

Best seasonal movie: whichever one has John Wayne as a Roman soldier at the end saying "Truly that was the son of Gahd." The Greatest Story Ever Told, possibly?

"WHY ARE THEY LEAVING OUT THE PART WHERE ZEUS TURNS INTO A SWAN AND FUCKS LEDA? DO THEY THINK WE CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH?"

The name probably comes from Eostre, yeah, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. The celebration of the Resurrection developed separately, but English Christians called that celebration "Easter" for the whole "come to our church, you can still have your festival" effect. Eggs, rabbits, and sweets were all common parts of the pre-Christian celebrations.

It wasn't so much hijacked as recycled, just like Eostre was a remix of Astarte/Ishtar, but Easter's certainly not an exclusively Christian holiday unless you want to go back to calling it the Feast of the Resurrection.

holiday is lame imo

the weather's nice i guess

I read George Herbert's poems "Easter" and "Easter Wings" out loud today in honor of the occasion. And then I put on a Void t-shirt with great big upside down crosses on it.

easter wings is a pretty rad poem

i put on peter g's passion soundtrack on repeat

"So the Pagan religion had very big festivals, remember, on Easter and Christmas. Christian religion came along and had very big festivals, at Easter and Christmas. Jesus died on one and was born on the other. Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm? Cause *cough* Jesus, I do think did exist. You know, and, uh, he, uh, was a, I think, uh, a guy who had interesting ideas in the Gandhi-type area, in the, umm, Nelson Mandela-type area. You know, relaxed and groovy. And, uh, the Romans thought, "Relaxed and groovy, nooo no no no no." Umm, so they murdered him. And kids eat chocolate eggs, because of the color of the chocolate, and the color of the... wood on the cross.

Well, you tell me! It's got nothing to do with it, has it! You know, people going, "Remember kids, the kids who're eating the chocolate eggs, Jesus died for your sins." "Yeah, I know, it's great! No, no no, it's bad, it's bad! No, it's bad! It's very bad. It's terrible! Whatever you want, I mean - just keep giving me these eggs."

And the bunny rabbits! Where do they come into the crucifixion? There were no bunny rabbits up on the hill going, "Hey? you? What, are you going to put those crosses in our bur - warrens? We live below this hill, all right??" Bunny rabbits are for shagging, eggs are for fertility. It's a festival - it's the spring festival!"

i went to my first mass last night!!!!! it was boring tbh? the bible sure is weird

Easter is awesome. You get to east lots of chocolate and if you're lucky maybe this little dude will bring you some treats:

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erm "eat" lots of chocolate.

tweer easter means pained and forced family gatherings in my experience, today is no exception.

Easter is only significant for me for one thing: Simple Minds' song "East At Easter".

One of the best Simple Minds songs ever folks:

Easter is fun! I had a small party with Jesus Christ Superstar Saturday night and went to church where there were BABY GOATS in the morning! Baby animals make my day. And then there was a zombie walk, which I'm sure people thought was hilariously timed (I was like "oh no people...please don't have a noisy lurching photo op on the steps of the Haitian church at noon on Easter, that is SO fucking tacky....")

Another great thing about Easter is sunrise services followed by pancake breakfasts, which I skipped this year but in general produce unusually high levels of appreciation of the world and your fellow man and all that.

I got a sheep on a motorcycle in my Kinder Surprise.

Weather was kinda horrible (and note I am usually trolling the anticipate summer threads).

not really easter yet