I Contain Multitudes – I Am Legion

     Here it is – Like Whitman, I contain multitudes. I am Legion.

    “That’s not funny, Carter. I’ve always said you were Satanic.

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give me my influences. Give me my heroes. Le t me name them:

    Archibald MacLeish – librarian poet
    Madeline L’Engle – universalist author, Christian author
    Burroughs – both Edgar Rice and William
    William Booth – the only General I would follow

    Howard Zinn – historian
    Marc Chagall – dreamer, poet, painter, fool

    “You’re a fool, Carter. Everything you say only confirms it the more…”

    Gustavo Gutiérrez – Dominican liberationist
        and
    Roger Corman – the king of cult

    “You go too far.”

    Give me scream queens. Give me Elvira,
    Give me Neil Young and Nick Cave.
    Give me Camus and Kierkegaard
    Give me the blessed Saint Francis and Sister Death

    “Stop. Stop. You’re only embarrassing yourself with this… contortion. This confession.”

    Kropotkin. Cash. Dylan.
    Brian Wilson. John Coltrane and John Yoder (though, I acknowledge the danger)
    Umberto Eco, and Echo and the Bunnymen

    “I don’t even know these names. No one cares.”

    Poe, and King, and Dick
    Sartre, Beauvoir, Silverstein
    Give me Black Francis screaming into the void

    “You need to stop. This is unhealthy.”

    Give me Martin Luther King Junior

    “He was an adulterer”

    I know, but give me Tillich.

    “Pornographer.”

    I know, but give me…

    “No. I will give you nothing.”

    Give me Jesus.

    “Jesus! The Blasphemy you breathe…”

Assimilated into the Holy City

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you something.” And in the spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain and showed me the Holy City Jerusalem coming down out of interstellar space.

The angel who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city.  The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width; its length and width and height are also equal. A perfect cube capable of both warp and transwarp velocities.

And the city was surrounded by a subspace field, an adaptive and regenerating force shield that none could penetrate. The city was armed with both beam and projectile weaponry, cutting beams and magnetometric guided charges, missiles and tractor beams.

The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it and assimilated. But nothing unclean will be assimilated.

(Revelation 21 + Star Trek)

Evensong and Darth Vader at the National Cathedral

We visited the National Cathedral today. I am somewhat ambivalent about the "National" Cathedral. I worry that any church that ties itself to the state is compromised. The Church (with a capital C) does not belong to any nation. I did, however, appreciate that the tour guides and service leaders affirmed to the folks visiting that "this is your cathedral."

We took the tour, visited the gift shop (where I bought a book of poems based on the gargoyles and grotesques of the cathedral (one of which is Darth Vader)). Then we stayed for the Evensong service by the choir.

Fremen from the East

Origen Adamantius, Bub

Doctor Who Christmas Carols

The other day I posted a short list of Xmas mashup songs I'd like to hear. Today I'm sharing a list of Doctor Who Christmas Carols that need to be sung:



Ood Christian Men, Rejoice
God Rest Ye Merry Cybermen
Silence Night
Do You Know the River Song that the Angels Sang?
Weeping Angels from the Realms of Glory
Frosty the Snowmen
The Boe's Face Carol
Ood King Wenceslas

*Edit: My friend, Deb, has suggested:

O Little Town in Gallifrey

**2nd Edit (because I have clever friends, and because this one now seems obvious):

Dalek the Halls

***3rd Edit

Autons from the Realms of Rory

Live Long and Prosper - The First Commandment With a Promise

Strangest Nativity Set Ever...

In this morning's mail, a circular from True Value.  Is R2-D2 baby Jesus?  Does that make Yoda or Darth the Virgin Mary?

Pray For Us, Saint Frankenstein

Dear Saint Frankenstein,
you who were always and continually
forced to be the stranger
and the wanderer upon the ice,
the unwelcomed, unwanted
who never even had a name
except that of your vainglorious father,

help us in this, our hour of need,
as we face the infliction of injustice
and ingratitude.

Help us to turn from terror and hate
to the joy of Christ’s loving embrace.

Good Saint Frankenstein, pray for us.

Cybermen?

The Sandworms Did Not Appreciate John the Baptizer...

The Sandworms did not appreciate John the Baptizer...

Saint Xavier

"Give me the mutants until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards."

Saint Charles Xavier

Ouuuuuch

And after eight days again his disciples were within, and E.T. was with them; then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said Peace be unto you.
Then saith he to E.T., Reach hither thy hand, and behold my hands; reach hither thy finger, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
And E.T. answered and said unto him, Ouuuuch.

Keep the Thor in Thursday

Let's keep the Thor in Thursday! Share this if you're with me! 

Daleks Still Seek Him

My wife saw me working on this one - at a point some time before I added the Daleks.  She looked at it and thought "Awwww. He's working on a nice Christmas picture."    When she saw the final version later, she was disappointed.

By Your Command

When the Imperious Leader opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come and see!"

 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the galaxy to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the cylons of the earth.

By your command!

The Praying Jewbacca

This one comes by way of request.  Here you go, Dutton.

This is, as you might recognize, a reference to my favorite painter - Marc Chagall - and his 1923 painting, The Praying Jew.   This wookie is very devout. He wears his tallit and his tefillin as he should.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Savior

Just another service from your friendly neighborhood savior.

 Be sure to check out the other pictures in this series of science-fiction / superheroes meet religious art.

Amen and Make it So

This is the Absolute Last Last Supper

In the past couple of days I have been amusing myself (and horrifying my wife) by drawing a series of science fiction / superhero and religious art combinations. (Warrior Princess of Guadalupe, Hulk Want In!, Neo, We Trust in You, Pray for Us, Saint Bat and The Sacred Heart of Vader)


I've had a couple of friends suggest that I do a Last Supper themed drawing ... perhaps one with the Avengers and Captain America in Jesus' seat.

But - seriously - the Last Supper thing has been done.  A lot

You could have the Last Supper with the cast of Lost

or Battlestar Galactica.














If you had a quick eye, you might have caught this last supper tableau during the opening credits of The Watchmen movie.

Would you like to share the Last Supper with Homer and the gang down at Moe's tavern.

Or how about the Last Breakfast with your favorite cereal mascot?

Maybe you want to take Jesus seriously when he said "eat my flesh" and "drink my blood."







How about The Sopranos' last supper? or Sesame Street? or Star Wars? Nintendo? That 70's show?  M*A*S*H* ? McDonalds? How about a Last Supper where every place is filled with James Woods?  yes.  There is such a picture.  Or The Big Lebowski with The Dude in the Dude's seat.

All these and many - many more - are scattered across the interwebs, but you can see them collected at Suddenly Last Supper - by Popped Culture.

So I  won't be doing a Last Supper scene. It's probably already been done.