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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Choco bunnies


It may be a bit late but it fits re april, jokes, and subverting the dominant paradigm...

6 comments:

little gator said...

and on Easter Sunday Jesus comes out of the cave, and if he sees his shadow we get 6 more weeks of winter.

Maggie Jochild said...

Pamish, went to your site and looked at your pix. What does that "Sunshine" bloom actually smell like? (I know, hard to describe, probably.) And after viewing the Easter Bonnet Parade of the Tottenham and Wood Green Pensioners' Action Group, I agree with their choice of the winning bonnet -- not just the chapeau, but also the model wearing it. Lovely. Thanks for sharing.

pamish said...

The choisya (Mexican Orange Blossom) has a v powerful smell, indescribable as you say - a bit lily-like, musky too. You really can catch it from the end of the road.

2 more years and I'll be able to join the Tottenham Pensioners for real. They had a great atmosphere as I walked in - 100 mostly women, mostly Caribbean, sitting around eating biscuits and slipping rum into the tea. A bit deeper and I realised that most activities are built around poverty and it's not quite so jolly. But they seem determined to enjoy that couple of hours. NB on the page of the eight easter bonnet entrants, the babe at top left is the little sister at 96 of 98-y-o Irene Sinclair who features a couple of pages earlier on my site. The resemblance is clear once you know.

Maggie Jochild said...

I prefer to see Jesus as a visionary Jew who was attempting to redefine g*d for his people and who never claimed divinity -- would, in fact, be horrified by such a claim. His teachings on poverty are still so radical that most Christians don't follow them. But, as something I read recently pointed out, Jesus was also an apocalyptic (the world was coming to an end, he believed) and his repudiation of prior Jewish theology, such as his proposed new Covenant, has been used as ammunition for Jew-hating by Christians for millenia. Jesus seems to be here to stay, so I work on making sense of it. How do others put all this together (if at all)?

shadocat said...

I thought Jesus came out of the cave riding a giant bunny that laid colorfully decorated eggs...

little gator said...

shado, that's what Jesus does if he *doesn't" see his shadow.