By Diana Hsieh @ 4:56 PM
Some of you may be surprised to learn that I am a committed traditionalist about Easter. The Easter holidays should be focused on bunnies, eggs, and other symbols of fertility -- not that newcomer "Jesus."
So, in the spirit of that glorious tradition, I bring you two delights:
See the best entries of the Peeps Diorama Contest. They're even better than last year, I think. My favorites are #4 and #40.
It's about time that someone created an Easter Turducken. It consists of Cadbury cream eggs wrapped in Peeps, then stuffed into a hollow chocolate rabbit. The linked page has a very useful set of illustrative pictures of the assembly process, but don't miss gems like the following in the description:
Many children wonder around Easter how it is that bunnies lay eggs. As a side benefit, Easter turducken illustrates clearly that this "theory" is wrong. Obviously bunnies lay chickens, which then lay the eggs. Mystery solved.
Indeed. Even more importantly, this Easter turducken -- a.k.a. the "bunpeepegg" -- shows that the "chicken or the egg" controversy is a vicious false alternative. Clearly, the chicken and the egg come into the world simultaneously: the chicken is "born" from the bunny already containing the egg!
In a somewhat similar spirit, my old friend Jefferson Swycaffer once gave out solstitial holiday cards that read "Persephone is the reason for the season!" Done in a kind of pomegranate red/purple.
The peep dioramas are a hoot. Hopper's Nighthawks, PeepZilla, etc. LOL.
I happen to like Hopper; although his paintings are psychologically a downer, they are visually interesting and original. Nighthawks reminds me a bit of the more gritty city scenes from Atlas Shrugged... at least the way I imagined them. My favorites are his paintings around his home on Union Square and of Cape Cod.
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