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December 27, 2005
Drug Zombies
A link to some interesting music, featuring some fine Americans…
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 09:55 AM
December 24, 2005
Gorry Christmas!
It’s usually easy to tell where a person stands in the culture wars, but whose side is someone on when his Christmas decor is a blood-spattered Santa Claus holding a severed head?…
Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos decked the front of their Manhattan mansion this year with a scene that includes a knife-wielding 5-foot-tall St. Nick and a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls. Hidden partly behind a tree, the merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll’s head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets.
In a telephone interview Wednesday, Krupnik explained that his family thought it would be a fun way to make a comment about the commercialization and secularization of Christmas.
“It is a religious holiday, but they have turned it into a business. And it shouldn’t be,” he said. “We didn’t put it up to offend anybody. It was just something that came out of our imagination.”
More than a few people passing by the brownstone were a little puzzled about the message behind the massacre. There were a few signs the macabre theme is a year-round thing _ the facade of the building was covered with leering gargoyles. A statue of Death, hooded and grim-looking, stood outside.
Peter Nardoza, 81, of Manhattan, shook his head and chuckled.
“Sick, sick, sick,” he said. “What kind of a world is this that we live in?”
Ronnie Santiago, a deliveryman on his route, speculated that something bad must have happened once to the homeowner at Christmas. A few spectators wondered whether the campy gore would bother children.
The family is far from the only one making an editorial comment this year on how Americans celebrate Christmas, although it may be the only one doing it by depicting Santa Claus as a killer.
Pope Benedict XVI complained this week that Christmas festivities have been “subjected to a sort of commercial pollution.” Christian conservatives have launched campaigns to reintroduce a religious component to Christmastime decor in schools and public squares, chiding even President Bush this year for sending out cards wishing supporters a happy “holiday season.”
But despite the home’s gruesome exterior, some visitors appreciated it.
Bucky Turco, 31, of Manhattan, said the display captured how he felt when watching someone costumed as SpongeBob SquarePants promote products at Rockefeller Center.
“This is brilliant,” said Turco.
Walter Garofalo, a musician from Brooklyn who wandered by wearing a black bandanna covered in skulls, was awe-struck.
“I wonder if these people would let me use this as our next album cover,” he said. “It’s perfect!”
Full story here
Posted by Ferrara Brain Pan at 04:47 PM
December 21, 2005
Happy Solstice to All My Pagan Friends!
I made this from an animated GIF that I found out there somewhere. I just added the hat and the words. The band did all the work, being all spooky and badass. If someone knows who this band is, please leave a comment. Also feel, free to share it around.
Posted by mccreath at 09:17 AM
December 12, 2005
By the way
Katie and I went to Hawaii last week.
Posted by mccreath at 06:41 PM
December 04, 2005
The Plot Thickens...
Bein’ from Kal-ih-for-nigh-aee, ah’m sawrta ecks-emp-ted from-a sahh-nin’ up heah, but you boys oughta take a gander at this heah awr-genn-ahh-zay-shun!
Posted by Ferrara Brain Pan at 10:49 PM
Curses! Foiled Again!!
Alright, boys and girls, might as well put away those tinfoil hats…
(And while we’re on the subject of black helicopters)…
Posted by Ferrara Brain Pan at 08:06 PM
December 02, 2005
I just found the perfect gift for each of us...
Shall we draw names? I of course want the 2 cd set, hat, tshirt, & badge.
Posted by Lang Squal at 12:22 PM