Yesterday, when I logged into MySpace I noticed that I only had 39 top friends instead of the usual 40.  It took a cup of coffee before I realized who was missing: Pierre Boulez - one of the funniest, most provocative bloggers on MySpace - and a guy who always seemed to be teetering on the edge of a huge razor separating an ocean of brilliance from an ocean of blasphemy.

I guess I kinda took his presence for granted, though.  And I regret that.  Now all that seems to remain of him is a Jesus picture on my C drive.

You see, a couple of weeks ago, Pierre e-mailed me this apparently charcoal drawing of Jesus, suggesting that I looked more like this than any of my "Celebrity Look-Alikes."  He recommended that I use it as my default profile picture.  I chuckled at his message, as I am certainly no Jesus Christ (for better or worse), and I've already had problems with people not reading my name carefully and assuming I am claiming to be Jesus Christ instead of Crisis.  I never quite knew when to take "Pierre" seriously anyway.

So when I noticed Pierre has vanished into the vacuum of cyberspace, I decided to do something with this Jesus picture - make a blog out of it.  I realize no one really knows what the historical Jesus looked like.  I've seen almost-albino blonde Scandinavian renditions of Jesus, deep black African renditions of Jesus, and God-only knows how many varieties in between.  We can surmise that Jesus was more than likely Semitic looking - after all, he was, according to the Bible, Jewish.  Still, the only thing we can be 100% sure of regarding his appearance is that we have no idea what he really looked like.

But can you even imagine Jesus looking like any of these folks?