Us Catholics are masters at Tacky Religious Merchandise. (Even lapsed-ones, like me!)
Gaudy rosary beads. Glow-in-the-dark saint statuettes. Little tiny saint figurines for the dashboard of your car. Prayer cards. Holy Infant of Prague porcelain dolls.
I hear you, but I don’t know how without getting in trouble. All I can think of is to ask permission and just say “I think my mom in NY would love one of these, but I’d like to send her a picture to be sure. Can I just snap a quick photo?”
or buy it and return it later after taking a pic. That’s a plan…Hmm.
About 20 minutes from my parents’ house, in the middle of the boondocks, is a nice little white house with a manicured yard, a flower garden…and a life-sized Jesus in a huge glass gazebo.
One of the more popular lawn decorations around here is the up-ended bathtub, half-buried in the front lawn, painted sky-blue inside, and sheltering a statue of the BVM. This is known in my family as “Mary on the half-shell”
Zette, I’m pretty sure there’s no laws against taking pictures in a store – go in and start snapping, and if they say something, apologize and leave. What are they going to do, open the camera and tear out the film?
Oh, I love those–we call 'em “Bathtub Marys” out here.
Y’know, seeing as I live in the Bible Belt now, you’d think I’d have seen more amusingly overdone Christian paraphernalia, but the only thing I’ve seen so far is an exterminator downtown whose sign features a huge “Jesus fish” and the words “EXTERMINATOR - IN GOD WE TRUST.”
This makes me think that their extermination procedure consists of praying to the Lord to make the ants go away. Thank you, and don’t get me wrong I don’t mean to mess with your religion, but I’d rather go to the guy up the street who trusts in chemicals!
We have two Mary statues and a St. Francis. The latter is near the garden where several of our pets are buried, along with our older Mary statue. The other one is on the side of the house-it’s just a granite statue.
You can’t really see them unless you’re in my yard-and it just looks like part of the garden.
I don’t care if the weather gets hairy,
Long as I got my bathtub Mary …
Bathtub Mary keep on washin’
Livin’…Livin’…Livin’ in a bathtub!
More Eccu-mental fun!
I always thought it was an urban legend, but I have seen with my own eyes, hanging on the wall of a house in Toronto, a figurine of Santa Claus On The Cross.
And yesterday at the No One Is Illegal demo, I saw a protester with a crucified Mickey Mouse. I laughed my ass off.
Hey, we owned that game! It was a bit on the pathetic side.
I’m sure I can come up with some gloppy Orthodox Jewish kitsch though, especially if I can distance myself a bit and see it as an outsider.
http://www.chapelgifts.com/category.php3?cat=31
For anyone who has managed to miss this previously.
I can’t work out which I like best, hockey Jesus or judo Jesus.
Is it just me, or is Ballet Jesus kinda creepy?
Yikes, that is creepy.
Especially the golf one.
Jesus loves the little children…
I wrote a video game many years ago (about 1977) called “Battle Stations of the Cross” - you accompanied Jesus to the cruxifiction, and got points by offering him water, carrying his cross for a while, and warding off Pharisees with your light saber
Last Christmas, I got my friend the church organist a Martin Luther Bobble Head Doll.
The best thing about him is the supercilious look on his face as if he’s saying, “Yeah, I got your 95 Theses riiiiiight here!”
Iteki, thank you, thank you, thank you!
I heard someone describing this website on the radio once, but didn’t hear the URL, and always wanted to check it out for myself.
I’m gonna send it to all my irreligious friends.