Awful Easter Bunny Photos

Kat Zand sent me 13 creepy Easter Bunny photos. Warning: Giant bunnies in mangey costumes may induce nightmares.

My kids should be grateful I never exposed them to anything like this!

The Year the Easter Bunny Died

"The day before Easter, I was bursting with anticipation. I could recall that the year before had yielded a hefty amount of chocolate and jelly beans and that there were bright colored things and baskets and a magic rabbit that somehow made all of the other stuff happen. I was understandably completely out of my mind with excitement."

Read the rest of this hilarious story at Hyperbole and a Half

Some Easter traditions are weird, dontcha think?

Via

He has risen!

The Passion Fruit of the Christ Easter Soufflé

"Girls, the only ingredient that takes a bit of poise and wrangling to procure is, of course, the flesh of the Christ. But for Heaven's sake, don't order over the Internet or you are likely to wind up with something in an Igloo cooler that came out of a Chinese dissident! Instead, I have found, that Catholic priests are rather alacritous in their willingness to allow me to score a stack of freshly consecrated hosts for my Body of Christ Soufflé. But come prepared with an envelope full of crisp twenty-dollar bills and a comely young boy who gives off the vague impression of being up for almost anything."Read complete recipe here

Sacrilegious! But what else would you expect at Easter from an atheist who isn't particularly fond of chocolate?

Wash those whips first....

Turns out crucifixion is bad for you . Who'da thunk it?

MANILA - Health officials in the Philippines warned the Roman Catholic faithful Wednesday that re-enacting the crucifixion could be bad for their health.On Good Friday, dozens of people, mostly men, will be nailed to wooden crosses, while hundreds more will strip to the waist and whip themselves until their backs are cut and bloody as a way of atoning for their sins over the past year.
The department of health advised people taking part in the rituals to have a tetanus injection and to check the condition of the whip they will use before lashing their backs. It said dirty whips "welcome all sorts of infections and bacteria like tetanus.

If I were inclined to atone for my sins I'd rather just say 2 Our Fathers and 6 Hail Marys.

Pysanki

Pimp your ride for Easter

You'll have the cutest car in the Easter parade.

Around-town errands become hop-skip-and- a-jump field trips with these hilarious Easter bunny ears and puffy pink nose that easily attach to your car or truck.

Via Blog on a Toothpick

Easter Sunday Bloody Sunday

Heartthrob AveryAnt Rants about Easter.

Have a Googley Easter

EASTER GIFTS

LOOKIN' GOOD FOR JESUS LIP BALM:

Lookin Good For Jesus Lip Balm returns lips to near virgin quality. Virtuous vanilla flavor protects and preserves.

Easter Is Almost Here

I'd better get on it stat. Matthew Mead Productions, Inc. has all sorts of great entertaining and decorating ideas, like this sweet little bunny planter. Beats that ugly chocolate Jesus, that's for sure.

Via Desire To Inspire , one of my favourite design sites.

This is Outrageous

No Easter parade for Ed the Sock:
Ed the Sock has been declared footwear non grata by the Toronto Beaches Lions Club.
The cigar-chomping, trash-talking, gravel-voiced puppet and Liana K, co-host of Ed & Red's Night Party! were to have been grand marshals at the Lions' annual Easter Parade.

Peeps Jousting

Must stop Peeps blogging.
I know I promised that I would not post about Peeps again until next Easter but I just can't seem to help myself. This one is irresistible. To my credit I did not post the Peeps cocktails link yesterday although I was sorely tempted. They looked so cute skewered on little cocktail umbrellas...

Easter Bling

via Bits and Pieces

Easter Poll

How should you eat Chocolate Bunnies? (I didn't think it mattered).

starting with the ears 61%
it doesn't matter 32%
starting with the feet 4%
starting with the tail 4%

Total votes cast: 16222

How Peeps Found Jesus.

Just in case you were wondering what Peeps had to do with the death of Christ: here's one last Peeps blog and then no more until next Easter (unless there is an overwhelming demand).

Candy historians speculate that the Peeps' link to Easter has more to do with the pagan origins of the holiday than its Christian roots. Eggs, and consequently chicks, are a long-standing symbol of fertility and rebirth, an appropriate image for a holiday that celebrates the coming of spring. Originally
part of a pagan fertility ritual symbolizing new life, the egg became incorporated into Easter as pagan rites were absorbed into Christianity with the Christianization of Central Europe.

The Brick Testament Crucifixion

If there's anything I like more than Peeps at Easter it's a Lego crucifixion.

The Easter Bunny Gets Down and Dirty

The Easter Bunny Hates You

How to Make Marshmallow Chicks

Mr. Sun must know how much I love Peeps but hate to eat them. Now I can produce my own palatable Peeps, display them in artful poses and then gobble them up, and you can too.

Lord of the Peeps

I would never eat a Peep, those bits of stale marshmallowlike substance molded into chick or bunny shapes that surface each spring just in time for Easter. Even as a child I found them vile tasting. But I do love little tableaux that star Peeps in various costumes and dramatic roles.
Here is a recent one:
Lord of the Peeps:
The peeps embark on a quest to defeat darkness, to save the world from the menace of unsleeping evil.
via Slashfood

Want to see more cool Peepstuff?
Unfortunately the link to my favourite, The Passion of the Peeps, appears to be dead.