I've said before that if I lived in the wild, without the moderating influence of a cohabiting human bred from strict Teutonic stock, I'd likely meet my demise by being crushed under a pile of plastic action figures and paper ephemera. It's been an uphill battle for me to
editorialize my paper ephemera collection, and sometimes I *do* discover that A Nameless Someone has taken down my
"Girls and Corpses Magazine" promotional flyer (delicate soul that he is, Baron XIII decided this was not appropriate refrigerator art), but some items from my collection are just too precious to toss.
Such an item is this "What Can Satan Do For Me?" pamphlet that I snapped up a few years back from a stack in an East Village watering hole. I have been unable to track down its provenance, and I have yet to discover what the Order of the Waning Light referenced in here might be, but as a parody of similar Christian Mission handouts, I think this is pretty successful. I also like the weird Mark Ryden-esque drawings used here--creepy kids and demons: two great tastes that taste great together!
"God out-murders Satan by a ratio of more than 203,800 to 1. Go God! Way to smite."
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Oh, I would so pay for the permit to put those on windshields. I'd head straight to our local First Freewill Holiness Mana A.M.E. Christ is Lord Chrurch of the Elect and start liftin' those wiper blades!
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
What would Satan do?
@ Igloo Keeper: He'd put a fish on his car and go to great lengths to prevent gay marriage, and maybe shoot an abortion doctor now and then.
Wait a minute...
Being no great fan of any religion at all there has always been a warm spot in my heart for those wacky satanists. No better than Christianity in most respects at least they have a sense of humor about their jive. thanks for posting.
i have a bunch of those Chick religious tracts tucked in a drawer in my closet. they litter the streets downtown sometimes and are fun to collect. the tracts always end the same (we are all dirty filthy sinners! repent now! put down the crack pipe and get right with Jesus!) but the cartoons and the silly babble are always a scream.
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@wiec?--You can actually read almost all of Jack Chick's tracts online at his website: http://www.chick.com. His website is actually a lot slicker than you'd probably imagine it to be. Hours of entertainment.
In fact, when I showed it to a friend who had somehow grown up unfamiliar with Chick Tracts, he was absolutely convinced that the whole thing was a long-running, elaborate hoax.
I wish I still had the "Dark Dungeons" tracts folks used to slip into my D&D books when I left my desk for a moment. I had no inkling then of their future LOL value.
thanks for the tip Vic! i hear where yer friend is coming from. it took me awhile to believe those Chick tracts were for serious. Seriously hilarious.
Kate- i have been censored by the no fun police (my better 1/2) on the refrigerator art front too. a still shot from Shogun Assassin (beheading w/the fountain of blood shooting 3 ft in the air) put a certain someone off their feed. what can you do?
I wonder if I still have my copy of that pamphlet.
Also, I wish to add this to the discourse on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh3GVXn3f-Q
Love the Satan tract...at least THEY have a sense of humor.
Waddaya mean, the Baron took down your art? What do you want on your fridge...little kids' crayon drawings?
The fridge door is THE place for questionable material! A friend of ours did a project where he noticed fresh roadkill on the way to work, so he decided to take a picture of it everyday until it rotted away. We have one of the celebrated photos posted on the freezer door...perfect for keeping on a diet!
I'm so glad folks got a kick out of this! I've got a few Chick tracts tucked away--I've never seen them "in the wild" where I live now (though we do get mysterious issues of The Watchtower tucked into the mailbox now and again), but when I lived in Philly I came by a couple the honest way. Which is to say, some madman with the whites of his eyes showing would shove one into my hands, getting almost close enough to fleck me with his rabid spittle.
Jack, I appreciate and endorse your addition to the conversation! Love the Dresden Dolls.
I know, Cranky! He's a delicate soul. He *has* left up the anti-Communist bondage postcard you guys sent us, though. I think he was just starting to get jealous of Sheri Moon and my love for her.
"Sense of humor"? Ever spend time with any of those pimply-faced morons from the Church of Satan or Temple of Set? Sure they have a sense of humor about others (and each other's competitive cult), but they're as humorless about their own schtick - and as boring - as any Christian.
I had a couple of serious Jesus freaks sitting one table over at the coffeehouse last night. So very very tempted to go witness the Gospel of Satan to them.
I refrained only from an extreme lacking of caring very much.
Anon--I don't think this pamphlet originated with the CoS. I'm pretty sure it's an independent parody. As to humor or lack there of, I'm inclined to agree in that once *anybody* starts quaffing too deeply from the Kool-Aid chalice, they're bound to start sounding alike in tone when it comes to defending their ideas.
Nate, my own inclination is to go up and start spouting wildly inaccurate Biblical quotes at them: "You know that Ephesians 12:3 warns against the dangers of warm caffeinated beverages! REPENT AND BE SAVED!!!"
Oh, I love this!
p.s. I'm adding you as a Flickr friend. (my user name is undream/vvitch) Hope you don't mind!
XXX
Hi Rebecca--glad you dug these! Of course I don't mind--I'm delighted to have your Flickrey company, in fact ;)
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