Shopping for Jesus...or Can I have a Dead God on a Stick to go please?
Why is it when you don't want something, you see them everywhere, but when you need something, it's not anywhere?

intenselaura and I went looking for a bunch of props for "The Dark Show". We have a scene with a priest and we wanted a nice crucifix for his office. Okay, to tell the truth I wanted a really awful, gaudy, tacky crucifix for his office. I've seen them all sorts of places.

BUT

After a half dozen different used good stores, including some owned by prominent religious groups (you know who you are Sally Ann!) we came up with exactly one cross of any sort. It wasn't large. It wasn't gaudy. It was awful and tacky, but it wasn't a crucifix since the cross was empty, save for an Aryan child praying on it. It will have to do.

I know that Monday, when the shooting weekend is over, EVERYWHERE I go I will see awful, gaudy, tacky crucifixes (crucifixi?) which would have been perfectly lovely for my perfectly horrible "Dark Show".

Pray for me! or maybe that should be prey...for ME!