In celebration of Holy Thursday, All Soul’s Episcopal church in downtown Manhattan will unveil a contemporary ice sculpture based on Da Vinci’s The Last Supper. It’s called The Next Last Supper.
“We want to capitalize on the buzz with the chocolate Jesus,” said Pastor Ima Airettick. “We also want to carve away our tradition and shape it into something relevant, something that people today can digest.”
Necessary Therapy was given an exclusive sneak preview at the sculpture.
The part of Jesus is played by a pregnant bearded woman, sitting Buddha-style on the table. She has her arms around Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump. Others depicted in the sculpture include Hilary Clinton, Barak Obama, Paris Hilton, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Yoko Ono, Osama bin Laden, Anna Nicole Smith, Oscar Wilde and the cartoon character Dilbert.
”Why Dilbert?” we asked the creator behind the sculpture, who goes by the = symbol. = replied, “We want to be inclusive of the animated world. Besides, Dilbert is a big draw.”
The part of Judas Iscariot in the sculpture is played by Jesus. When asked about this, = shrugged his shoulders and said, “Isn’t Holy Week all about making fun of Jesus? We’re just doing our part to add to the celebration.”
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for more religious humor. check out:
“Judas and Mary Magdalene Lovers?”
“Church and State: What God Has Joined Together Let No One Separate”
Dude…that is just wrong…. LOL
The Pistol fires back: As a Christian, I believe there is clearly a distinction between right and wrong. As an American, I will defend my right to be wrong.
While art can be used as social commentary, I don’t get the hatred towards Christianity. Okay, there are some who are a bit obnoxious about it, and for them we Christians apologize. However, the Christian ethic has historically done much more for the betterment of the US and the world than the rare and inexcusable excesses made by men, who really were probably after their own glory.
I do believe that satire can be self reflective, but this seems to go well beyond what any sane person could call reasonable reflection.
The Pistol fires back: Thank you for your honest reflections. It is always good to have a voice of reason in “Necessary Therapy”. I don’t quite understand your first paragraph, but I would respond to the second that I in no way claim to be a sane person (quite the opposite) and would not call my blog reasonable reflection (it’s just unadulterated self-promotion). Besides, where’s the satire? I must have missed it.
[...] Pistol Pete made a great post about this topic. In celebration of Holy Thursday, All Soul’s Episcopal church in downtown Manhattan will unveil a contemporary ice sculpture based on Da Vinci’s The Last Supper. It’s called The Next Last Supper. [...]
The Pistol fires back: In the interest of furthering the blogging career of a budding rationalist, I enourage you to visit the “voice of reason” site (listed above). I’m so irrational, I don’t know where s/he’s coming from, so maybe somebody can explain him/her to me.
I think they just got really offended is all and maybe thought it was real?
The Pistol fires back: You mean, it isn’t real? Again, I’ve got to check my sources. Heads may roll on this one.
This is typical of the vacuous idiots who get away with calling themselves artists. I think people who do t his sort of thing suffer from serious self-loathing - they are unable to respect the beliefs of others and feel that anything is fair game. Unless it has something to do with them.
Not to mention the fact that he somehow feels he can improve on Davinci. No ego problems there, eh?
WC
The Pistol fires back: There are a lot of vacuous idiots out there making a living calling themselves artists. I’m not sure about self-loathing, but they certainly have a lack of respect. My piece, though satire, is intended to depict the ludiocrity (ludicrous + mediocrity) of these folk. Sounds like it got your dander up. Good. Bad art & mean-spirited attempts at satire (such as the “chocolate Jesus”) get my goat as well. I think God often has to laugh to keep from crying.
Saw your comment on desicritics.org :) I am certainly willing to comment on sanity and insanity :) Just that, I didnt quite understand what you meant when you said - “and can you further plug my blog?”.
And please, I haven’t said anything wrong/offensive which should make Pistol “fire back” so to speak ? :)))
The Pistol fires back: By “plugging my blog” I mean doing anything and everything (short of breaking God’s laws) to get me more hits. My aim in doing a blog is to have as many good people (like yourself) as I can read what I write (if it leads to some kind of $ gig, so much the better). You are always welcome here & if I don’t fire back, it may be I have no more bullets in my gun at the time.
Quite interesting. Not a real religious guy myself. I just appreciate the art for what it is at the surface and the talent it takes to create it. Can’t really say that I am an art critic, just someone who enjoys the interesting things in life.
Thanks for visiting my site.
The Pistol fires back: You are always welcome here. I think you’re under-selling yourself. Even if you are not an art critic, stand up and claim you are one. I’m not a theologian or psychologist, but I play one on the computer.
Yardboy and I thought think this post is hilarious! I skipped over the name, “Pastor Ima Airettick,” the first time I read it. It wasn’t until I read it aloud to YB that I got it. Sooo funny and sooo bad!
The Pistol fires back: Funny you should respond. My wife was just saying this morning how much she enjoys your site. You share a lot in common - curly hair method, homeschooling, Christian (not particularly in that order). Thanks for the compliment. Two of my major influences for the significance of names are - the Bible & MAD magazine.
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The Pistol fires back: It is with much joy and trembling that I accept the honor of being invited into the “Carnival of Satire”. Check it out!
Nice post, PP. By the way, I met “=” at the bar of The Cedar Tavern in NYC last January. All he could talk about was his next project, which I seem to recall involved sculpting Michelangelo’s Pieta out of mashed potatoes. What a jerk: Not only did he skip out on the tab, he stole all the bar napkins too. “Artists.” Pshah!
TED
The Pistol fires back: Pshah, indeed. “=” gives us real artists (the starving kind) a bad name.