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(Or, rather, more MST3k Jack Chick tracts.)
I've got a strong hankerin' to do another one, and I think enough time has elapsed to prevent me from quitting in the middle by giving in to my inner "but I already DID this!" whining child.
I just need to pick the right tract. In the past the best tracts have had very cartoonish artistry and slightly incoherent messages. A "King James is the only REAL Bible version" message, for example, wouldn't work based on it's clear agenda and boring subject matter. Plus, nobody gets poisoned by Satan or dies in a prison fire as an 'object lesson'.
I know some ideas were bandied about last time, but I don't remember what they were. Any suggestions? I'll start on the best one tomorrow.
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If you go with Titanic, perhaps you can do something with the fact that they seem unclear --and inconsistent -- as to how "iceberg" is spelled. I guess an "iceburg" would be a city made of ice, neh?
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I just finished re-reading Pullman's 'The Subtle Knife.'
Chick's theology is what makes Pullman's subversive ideas so. . . attractive, I guess, to so many people. In one way, Chick proves that Pullman is right about God's attitude toward humanity.
I've stopped being shocked or angry about Chick. I'm just saddened that someone could so devoutly misunderstand God.
As for Pullman-- man, he's an inspirational writer when he isn't interspersing his propaganda between the lines.
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I loved that series, Scott! By the third book, though, the God business got to be a bit much.
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Man. I think the Jesus on the cross in the Kidnapped tract takes the cake as the most horrific Jesus I've ever seen.
Angels is a tract about the evils of Christian rck music. There's several deaths and Satan appears throughout.
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"Next, I started invading and distorting country, classical, soul, and Christian music..."
Is the argument that the insidious "jungle" rhythm has invaded all those genres?
Am I making too much of this? Sorry, a friend is taking her qualifying exams, and much in the same way that another's death makes you aware of your own mortality, I am heavily aware of my impending qualifying exams. Hence, the over-analysis of something like a Chick tract. Don't mind me, move along, move along. Posts: 4077 | Registered: Jun 2003
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"Is the argument that the insidious 'jungle' rhythm has invaded all those genres?"
Yep. Remember, classical music has rhythm now, too. And a lot of the modern stuff is really weird, and we all know that weird things Jack Chick doesn't understand are of the devil.
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AIDS given to you by the Devil himself is apparently especially fatal.
What I find odd is that, in Jack Chick's version of the disease, you get AIDS by pissing off Lucifer.
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Gunslinger, jeez..."it's not about good or bad, it's about saved or lost". So, rejoice, everyone, doing bad things no longer matters. *grumbles* Eh, don't know why I let that idiot piss me off...
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Hey...I've completed a parody tract of my own, for once! It's not an MST3K parody, but it is kinda funny...or creepy, depending on how you look at it. Unfortunately, I don't have a place to host it at the moment. Anybody up for it?
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Has this Chick guy ever heard of this part of the bible where they killed all these people except for the girls and divided them amongs themselves?
The Subtle Knife is an excellent book, but the message is sort of... more like what we do on Earth is more important than heaven....
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Nice, Mabus! All Chick parodies welcome. As David Brent would say, "All equal, so..."
Eaquae Legit made a very generous offer, but it is also possible that I could put your tract in with my parodies if you'd like and host a little mini-parody section in my foobonic profile. If Eaquae Legit would not be offended (hate to interlope and all that), paste that bad boy together and send it to antoniadodge@gmail.com.
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Evertime I see this thread at the top, my heart goes all aflutter, thinking that maybe when I click the link this time, it'll have Ralphie's newest MST segment at the bottom.
The dissapointment is getting harder to deal with. Posts: 4089 | Registered: Apr 2003
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It's based on Li'l Suzy , but the subject matter is more of a mixture of tracts about the End Times scare. I've been meaning to do something like that with one of the actual End Times tracts--I'm partial to parodying a Weird Al song ("The Night Jesus Went Crazy")--but I haven't been able to manage it yet. So I picked a fairly generic tract and went from there.
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Geez, Ralphie, I feel like I am waiting for "A Feast for Crows" or something. I mean, it has been DAYS here!
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A word of warning: not my finest work. I'm hoping it was that the pacing of tract didn't pan out like I thought it would and not that I'm losing my touch.
At any rate, it was still fun to do. And so I give you: The Mad Machine
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There were many more funny things, but I could not copy-paste, and had to just plain old copy, so I chose the comb-over.
It took me a minute to see the little heads-I only saw that cartoon-guys-review-the-movie show a couple of times. The text Crow thing was hysterical. You will always be Text Ralphie to me now, dear.
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Ralphie, you might want to change the title of the thread so people know there is a new masterpiece in the house.
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"Other, lesser proselytizers may shy away from making an object lesson out of a completely fabricated situation they themselves evented, but Jack clearly has no such qualms."
"I wish Jack would stop giving everything even remotely phallic those little wiggle lines. Makes me uncomfortable."
Ralphie has done it again! Posts: 4089 | Registered: Apr 2003
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