There is an outdoor sermon on the street outside my apartment

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gah i just realized it's good friday!! i live in a heavily italian stretch of brooklyn and there are hundreds of people marching down my block and holding big wooden crosses and umbrellas! then they stopped moving and settled on my corner. now a catholic church priest is giving a sermon and there's a dude singing religious music (in latin?) really loud through a megaphone!

what do i do? i closed all my windows and am blasting "impeach the president"!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

nail yourself to the nearest tree.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

a la: http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2006/04/14/filipino_devotees_nailed_to_the_cross/

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

i thought a wooden cross was some sort of vampire talisman, right? or do i have that part wrong? i was super confused to see people carrying them!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

not if they also have umbrellas....

― dave vire think (dave225.3), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps these folks have some advice for you: www.waroneaster.org

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

You've heard there are still Christians in contemporary America, geeta? or has the media conspiracy to render them invisible done its work?

Those Filipinos are hardcore worshippers. Makes Stations of the Cross look like a cakewalk.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

This happens every weekend on Graham Ave.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Lean out your window and shout "Give us Barrabas!"

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

call the cops on 'em.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

You've heard there are still Christians in contemporary America, geeta? or has the media conspiracy to render them invisible done its work?

funny

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Forget the cops--this is a job for Homeland Security: "Swarthy religious militants are gathering outside my apartment. They're speaking some strange foreign language I don't understand, but I think I heard them say something about lynching a Jew."

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Lean out your window and shout "Give us Barrabas!"

In Italian/Tagalog.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Fetchez la vache!!

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/jpgs/lavache.jpg

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

this is pretty lolz

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

"Christ's righteousness is like an umbrella under which His people live and move and have their being, protected from the wrath of God."

http://www.pilgrim-platform.org/1cor006.htm

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wordupindustries.com/umbrellas/got-jesus_150.gif

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cherbearsden.com/images/salvation/umbrelloutline.jpg

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

There is a teddy bear abandoned on my road
so there is a gigantic insect in my house.
There is a woman from the marketing department currently in my shower.
At the weekend, I discovered that there is a brothel in my building
There is a fish in a bucket in my living room
There is a computer in my office named MOMUS
There is a squirrel outside my window EATING a garden gnome
There is a WOLF in my office
There is a puppy in my office today
There Is Now A Gaping Hole In Personal License Plate Choices
there is a strange art installation in my kitchen...
there is a good side to Uranium City

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't find that metaphor very reassuring. Every umbrella I've ever had lasts about a week if I'm lucky, before the wind flips it inside out or the spokes snap or something.

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Just like Jesus.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

let a frown be your umbrella

― dave vire think (dave225.3), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I've gone on a Good Friday wooden-cross march with gay Catholics in the West Village, and let me tellya you get priceless looks from all the pagan vampires.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

"Mmmm, if only you weren't a virgin."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I mean, ah...nevermind.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

trust me, no virgins among W.Vill gay Catholics (esp the leather group).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

play some italo for them

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I think the only loud obnoxious Easter celebration I may have to worry about is the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence 27th Annual Easter Egg hunt (and maybe the pentacostal mexi-church next door, if they're really rockin)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Geeta? Are you safe? What's happening out there?

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

geeta this has happened to me more than once. My only advice is to just leave your house and run far away because no amount of blasting music helps.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

there was a huge procession down thru the les into alphabet city a little while ago complete with cross-bearing jesus.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

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