Dateline: Sussex, England—Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Vicar has ‘horrifying’ statue of crucifixion removed from church
Resin sculpture that ’scared children and deterred worshippers’ to be replaced by steel cross
[IM thread from this morning:]
ajh: there’s something profound in that, but I am writing code so can’t articulate it. it gets my conservative hackles all up, though.
me: it’s the Photoshop century.
ajh: awesome. gotta wonder how many of those kids were on their way back from Batman Begins, though.
maybe if Batman was on the cross it would be OK!
me: he died for George Clooney’s sins, and then came back from the dead for another round of profitable sequels.
ajh: or was it Val Kilmer? I always get these creation stories mixed up…
