Easter with Patti Smith and Chocolate Jesus
Image: Chocolate Jesus by Cosimo Cavallaro
Music: "Easter" by Patti Smith
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a.k.a. Jesus Crisis, is a pacifist, poet, playwright, musician, composer, bibliophile, and seeker in Elyria, Ohio.
Co-founder (with Dianne Borsenik) of the monthly Lix and Kix Poetry Extravaganza and the annual winter wordfest known as Snoetry, John is also the founding editor and publisher for Crisis Chronicles Press and a regular contributor to the Cleveland Poetics and Ohio Poetry Association blogs. Since 2011 he has served as the OPA's webmaster pro tem.
John founded a loose association called Poets of Lorain County, under whose auspices he's hosted regular open mic and featured poet events at the Avon Lake Public Library and the Lorain Arts Council's 737 Gallery, as well as the PoetryElyria series at Jim's Coffeehouse and Diner, the Scott M. Duncan Photography studio and other venues in his hometown.
John's work has appeared on stages in four states, as well as in numerous journals, and he is the author of six poetry chapbooks, including:
Water Works (Recycled Karma Press, 2012)
Electric Company (Writing Knights Press, 2011)
6/9: Improvisations in Dependence by Jesus Crisis (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2009)
Identity Crises by Doug Manson, JC and Bree (Green Panda Press, 2009)
Bloggerel by JC (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2008)
Two broadsides featuring his work, For Change Is and Low Kay Shun, are available from NightBallet Press. His fifth chapbook, Water Works, is forthcoming in 2012 from Recycled Karma Press.
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The Tao of Jesus Crisis: Easter with Patti Smith and Chocolate Jesus
Image: Chocolate Jesus by Cosimo Cavallaro
Music: "Easter" by Patti Smith
Wicked cool! Gets the holiday weekend in perspective.
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Oooo...I beat MB to first!
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And that's quite an accomplishment!
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*grins*
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Thanks, Sasha! And a happy birthday weekend to you!
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Thanks! I did have a rather nice birthday.
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Cool!
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i love patti smith.
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Me too.
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frederick, name of care
fast asleep in the room somewhere...
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Another excellent Patti song! I'll have to put that CD on next.
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waves...
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if my memory serves me well, haha, i believe that album was produced by "a wizard/a true star".
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It was! I'd forgotten that.
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...hmmmm....i always loved the name Isabella....i'd never heard this song until just now.....beautiful, JC! Happy Easter weekend!!
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A chocolate Jesus is just what kids need. An edible god! Something like communion. Is this a playboy bunny or just a flying confection? Did the Easter bunny lay eggs under the cross? I am so mixed up about all these holidays. I am seeking origins for these myths while seeking the light of spring in the snow. Maybe this blog is the answer. Maybe anthropology or psychology have the answers. I don't listen to Patti Smith but Parsifal on Easter. It is a spiritual and beautiful opera and this has become a tradition for me. It really rocks..and is founded on the rock of ages. So rock on Jesus Crisis. We love you. Somewhere the real redeemer liveth but where is he? In a chocolate factory along with Charlie?
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Thanks, Helen! And by the way, I received the Horizon DVD and flyers via snail mail today!
I find it quite interesting that a spiritual woman born of a Methodist minister and married to a Jewish man can find inspiration on Easter in a beautifully sad opera by a sadly disturbing anti-semitic composer. Just shows that nothing in this world is black and white and there is beauty and ugliness in everything if we look for it.... I love Wagner's music (including Parsifal), while very much disliking the man himself. Sometimes it's possible to hate a man and love his work - or love a man and hate his work - or love parts of each and hate parts of each. This is on my mind because I've just read and commented on a provocative blog about Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright by my friend Anonymous. Check it out here:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=356033589&blogID=369289576
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So I find beauty in many places and some spirituality in all religions. Remember Jesus was a Jew just like you we used to say. I did check out Anonymous and left a comment also. I liked yours. I have to run to finish getting things in shape around here and pick up Miriam and Katy at about 8:00 at the airport. I am happy that you got the DVD and flyers. Great. Now I hope you can get your computer working. Talk to you later.
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Enjoy your time with Miriam and Katy!
Peace....
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Thank you, barbie! I hope you have a happy one as well!
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i stopped celebrating artificial holidays when i left home at age 17 in 1963. don't by gifts on borndays or xmas, don't go to church EVER, unless it's to shoot fotos of their theft.
happy uneaster.
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Let's call it Eater instead of Easter and celebrate candy!
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like this?
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii291/thursdays_blogs/Kittens.jpg
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indeed!
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Patti does indeed rock! Use to see her on the streets in the East Village in NYC with her late friend, Robert Mapplethorpe. What a pair!
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Wow... that would have been very cool. I've always liked Robert, too, at least from his work I've seen and interviews I've read.
Right now I'm listening to Patti's "Pissing in a River," which I believe I have on one of my MySpace playlists.
Thanks, Pugzz
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Dugg this.
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Thanks, Samantha!
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It never ceases to amaze me that people are more perplexed by chocolate bunnies and colored eggs than they are by a Man-God rising from the dead. The chocolate bunny exists for two reasons: it's delicious and you can ask people, "Do you eat the ears first, or are you some sort of freak?"
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lol... indeed
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