One-act Play or Extended Sketch? You decide!
What makes Joe festive?
Always be careful
where you roast your chestnuts.
Every year in the run up to Christmas, the same iconic classic “chestnuts” are served up by network television. “It’s A Wonderful Life”, “A Christmas Carol”, “Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.
I felt it was time to offer up some alternative viewpoints to the oft-parodied Christmas cautionary tales.
These two Christmas-themed spoofs “roast” those “chestnuts” on an open fire, presenting a view of Christmas from the perspective of the original spirit of Christmas who appears to a suicidal man on Christmas Eve.
I invite you to get your jolly on with these merriest mistletoe missives of good cheer.
Peace on Earth. Goodwill and Glad Tidings to you and yours.
Bite me, Hallmark Channel.
“Mary’s Grandkids” is the heartwarming story of the world’s most celebrated mother in her quest to become a grandmother. It is a testament that illustrates the “can do attitude” of women when it comes to resolving challenging reproductive circumstances. It demonstrates a spirit of cooperation to “lend a hand” when most needed, in this reimagining of an pivotal event that millions worldwide hold dear.
In my continuing quest and steadfast refusal to suspend my disbelief when it comes to the stories we’ve been told in church, I have once again put keystroke to computer screen (the modern equivalent of “put pen to paper”), and opened a small window into the behind the scenes machinations that began at the Last Supper.
So, get out your rosary, put a doily on your head, bow your head with great respect, and get ready to genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
When we last left our heroes in “The Big Ask”, the ending promised “To be continued…”
It’s Last Supper “afters” when the whole Holy Thursday gang (and a host of Extras and Day Players) reconvenes outside the Garden of Gethsemane for the next chapter in the rewriting of Biblical “history” entitled, “Goof Up at Gethsemane”.
On your suggestion of Murphy’s Law, we take you now to a clearing at the base of the Mount of Olives (so named because it’s a hill with a lot of olive trees on it)…
What if you were carrying the Son of God and no one would believe you because you’re a woman?
In modern times, it’s very much de rigueur to air your relationship “dirty laundry” in public and allow others to chime in with their opinions.
Accusations of infidelity, unwed mother, and looming divorce – all played out in front of a studio TV audience and broadcast nationally.
It is the worst of humanity juxtaposed against what many believe is a moment that represents the best of humanity.
But wait…there’s hope. The kind of hope that only exists in a Hallmark movie and can be lyrically expressed in Disney music.
There may have been a load of compromising on the way to this horizon…but that’s what marriage is all about.
When Jesus showed up at the Wedding at Cana, was it to institute the Sacrament of Marriage or the Sacrament of Getting Hammered at Weddings?
I don’t know. I was drunk at the time.
Lunch with Billy
Dementia patients often recall things in their long-term memory…but just what do they recall?