MetaFilter posts tagged with easter

Power to the Peeple (Reloaded).

arachnid — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:01:38 -0800

"What is on the minds of the unsettled citizens of an upset nation in the middle of the cruelest month of the year? We need only look to the Peeps to see." The Washington Post's third (no, rly) annual Peeps Show. (Previously.) (Many thanks to palliser, orme, and eye of newt for their very kind assistance.) Happy Easter, if you celebrate That Sort of Thing.

30 years of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

gingerbeer — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:47:30 -0800

Thirty years of community fundraising, flawless makeup, genderbending, and hysterically offensive names: the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are celebrating their 30th anniversary in San Francisco this weekend with parties, library exhibits, an art show, and their usual over-the-top Easter celebration. The motto of this collection of drag queen nuns is “go forth and sin some more” and they aim to spread joy, banish guilt, and serve the community. Behind the flamboyant outfits and gender chaos is an ethos of community service: they created the very first safe sex guide for gay men in 1982 and have raised over a million dollars for community services through events and bingo games. Never ones to hide from controversy, their combination of religious garb and names and over-the-top celebration of queer sexuality has led to denouncements from the Catholic Church including being put on the Papal List of Heretics by the Pope himself in 1987 and has earned the enmity of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality among others. Sisters are a regular presence at community events and AIDS fundraisers in San Francisco, but they are out in force this weekend. There was a large and exuberant group “in face” on BART last night, and after some debate, we decided that the correct collective noun is perhaps a “sacrilege of Sisters.” If you are in San Francisco, you don’t want to miss the events in Dolores Park on Sunday, including the Easter Bonnet contest at 1 pm and the infamous Hunky Jesus competition at 3:40pm. (Somewhat previously )

Silly bunny

MaryDellamorte — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:33:38 -0800

Live bunny cam! Just in time for Easter.

No, No, Nostalgia!

not_on_display — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:33:56 -0800

NetClassixFilter: The next time you're standing clueless in the greeting cards section of your local drugstore franchise, you'll be wishing you'd visited the Gallery of Unfortunate Greeting Cards instead. For all your holiday needs: Val en tin e's Day, St. Pat ric k's Day, E a s t e r, We dd in gs, 4th of July, Hal lo we'en, Bi rt h d a y s, Th anks giv ing, Ch ri st ma s, and of course, Washington's Birthday. [via Cap'n Wacky] Cap'n Wacky has previously sailed the seas of MetaFilter.

Jesus Shaves

Del Far — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:42:24 -0800

"He nice, the Jesus. He make the good things, and on the Easter we be sad because somebody makes him dead today." Enjoy a little short story about cultural differences and Easter from David Sedaris.

Easter resurrection

fcummins — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:31:47 -0800

Man in his thirties comes back from the dead on Easter Sunday. Oh oh. I'm off to confession, pronto.

Happy Easter to my peeps

toxic — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:32:59 -0800

Peeps Show. The Washington post was expecting a dozen or so entrants for the first-ever Peeps Diorama Contest. They got somewhere north of 350 from across the world. Photos.

Happy Easter Metafilter!

Effigy2000 — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:25:19 -0800

Easter postcards from 1898 until today. See also Russian Easter postcards and the history of the Easter postcard tradition.

blogswarming for freedom

amberglow — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:01:30 -0800

Blog Against Theocracy --a blogswarm dedicated to the separation of church and state, ... Easter Weekend, April 6-8, 2007. Also see the non-profit joint venture between The Interfaith Alliance Foundation and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, First Freedom First.

On A Roll

hermitosis — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:37:08 -0800

Speaking of the White House Egg Roll... The GLBT organization Family Pride plans to once again fill the annual event with hundreds of gay and lesbian families. What many welcome as a rare opportunity to be included as legitimate American families in a historic national tradition is seen by opponents as the crude politicizing of a children's event.

The good, the bad and the completely eggsellent.

JeremiahBritt — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:40:17 -0800

The 2007 State Easter Eggs: Since 1994, each state and Washington DC has selected an artist to paint an Easter Egg representing them for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
The eggs themselves are ga udy and beautiful, inscru table and fantastically artistic. Some state's submissions are bet ter than oth ers.
And then there's Wyoming.

Penguins With Angst

jonson — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:13:41 -0800

Penguins With Angst is the visual tale of a group of hoodlum penguins who vandalize a grain silo & threaten the life of Santa Claus. Easter Sacrifice is a photostory of the kidnapping of the Easter Bunny & his eventual decapitation by the Dove of Peace. Both art projects courtesy of Exclusionary, the online gallery of Jasper Thomas' work.

Holy Toledo

Marnie — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:53:25 -0800

Priest convicted in 1980 nun-slaying. The 71-year-old nun was found on Good Saturday 1980 strangled to death, stabbed 27-32 times, wrapped in an altar cloth with her under-garments around her ankle. Abuse victim Jane Doe re-opens 1980 case with account of childhood Satanic ritual abuse. Was there a cover up by the diocese?

Heppy Eester! Bork! Bork! Bork!

afiler — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:08:10 -0800

Glad Påsk! Happy Easter, in Swedish, via old and unusual greeting cards, featuring lots of chicks and surprising numbers of roosters, amorous poultry pairs, and even frogs.

Pysanky!

mathowie — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:09:17 -0800

Some badass eggs for this easter done in the Ukranian style called pysanky. More from last year and the year before. [via mefi projects]

WWWWJJDD!?

If I Had An Anus — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:02:17 -0800

Happy "Good" Friday, MetaFilter. Why not spend some time today contemplating your extreme fanatical beliefs? From the good people at MungBeing.
P.S. watch out for the falling eggs.

Peepducken?

donovan — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:05:58 -0800

An Easter Turducken . . . made of Peeps. This follows in a long line of MeFi Peeps posts and also offers something to do with a Cadbury Creame Egg other than bake a cake.

Heaven knows it's Manchester now

funambulist — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:17:42 -0800

Remember the announcement for the BBC's Manchester Passion? The full list of songs and lineup were recently announced, rehearsals are over, tonight the procession through the city will be broadcast live on BBC Three - for now you can watch trailers and interviews with the cast (only for UK viewers/proxy users).

I've Got Your Chocolate Egg Right Here

fandango_matt — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 05:56:48 -0800

After three years of taking shit, The Easter Bunny kicks some ass. (YouTube link)

Untold creatures of the deep!

furtive — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:44:29 -0800

The hydrothermal vents between Easter Island and Juan Fernandez are considered to be the Earth's fastest spreading center at approximately 150km per million years. Not only is this a geological hotspot, but a biological one too where at temperatures of up to 187c and depths of 2200m researchers have discovered amongst other things a blind hairy albino lobster. Ladies, gentlemen and MeFites I present to you Kiwa hirsute (aka The Yeti Crab).

Whipping and chasing and drinking and praying

tellurian — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:53:59 -0800

A strange ritual is played out in Choupic, Louisiana on Mardi Gras day. Something similar happens in Prague on Easter Monday too. [via]

This Nation's Saving Grace

klangklangston — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:42:03 -0800

...or why I wish I lived in England, part 6. The Mancunians return gravitas to Christianity's most holy holiday.

Tom Waits ate my Easter candy

DeepFriedTwinkies — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 06:13:07 -0800

Happy Easter, everyone !

I said a hip hop a hip hip hop hop and I don't stop

WolfDaddy — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:53:23 -0800

I say a E-A-S with a T-E-R and an EGG with a double G! Flash, Shockwave, 10 days early, not Friday, \/\/hateva

I'd Really Prefer Caramel

Dreama — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:04:40 -0800

Save the Bunnies! Every year, thousands of "pet" rabbits are purchased as Easter gifts, usually for kids, without much thought to the years of care which the animals will need. Within months, humane societies and pet shelters are flooded with the animals, many of which must be euthanized, as there simply aren't enough adopters to give them new homes. In response, the Columbus House Rabbit Society encourages everyone to eschew pet rabbit gifts and say Make Mine Chocolate!^TM instead. And since no campaign is worthwhile these days without a symbolic lapel pin, you can wear a chocolate bunny to spread the message.