Recently I posted about Battle Cry, a conservative Christian youth organization with fascist leanings created by a straight white man from the Bush administration. (Okay, I am not a fan)
On their home page they have three photos that flash on the screen. I wonder what stories these photos are trying to tell.
Luke: Damn, I can't believe Travis and I got caught in the locker room last night. We were only kissing, but they warned me, "One moment on the lips then you're all over his hips, and then some."
Ann Coulter Clone: Luke, it is not too late to repent and make things right. The stoning ceremony is still a day away.
Luke: But I don't know what else I can do! I went to that ex-gay program like my parents wanted, I've prayed, fasted, had people cast demons out of me. I've done everything short of cutting my hair and destroying my Emo music collection.
Ann Coulter Clone: We can tell them that you weren't kissing Travis, but that you were kissing me dressed up to look like Travis, that it is part of your process to change from being a homosexual into a normal person.
Luke: Yeah, a normal person, who in order to survive in church, has to become a liar.
(Okay gang, now you can have fun with the dialogue. Try your hand at creating dialogue for this mini soap opera.)
Thanks to Bruce Garrett for capturing the images for me!
On their home page they have three photos that flash on the screen. I wonder what stories these photos are trying to tell.
Luke: Damn, I can't believe Travis and I got caught in the locker room last night. We were only kissing, but they warned me, "One moment on the lips then you're all over his hips, and then some."
Ann Coulter Clone: Luke, it is not too late to repent and make things right. The stoning ceremony is still a day away.
Luke: But I don't know what else I can do! I went to that ex-gay program like my parents wanted, I've prayed, fasted, had people cast demons out of me. I've done everything short of cutting my hair and destroying my Emo music collection.
Ann Coulter Clone: We can tell them that you weren't kissing Travis, but that you were kissing me dressed up to look like Travis, that it is part of your process to change from being a homosexual into a normal person.
Luke: Yeah, a normal person, who in order to survive in church, has to become a liar.
(Okay gang, now you can have fun with the dialogue. Try your hand at creating dialogue for this mini soap opera.)
Thanks to Bruce Garrett for capturing the images for me!
Comments
You realize Silverlake is the epicenter of emo hipster culture?
Bob, sounds like you speak from experience. :-)
See what you come up with and like Bob feel free to rearrange the order you would like for your little play.
"Don't worry it happens all the time. I must stop picking up men at Bed, Bath, and Beyond."
Kick me if that was out of line. I feel like that outsider talking about racism who unknowingly uses the wrong words.
2) Ann: I knew you were keeping something from me. What's your secret?
Luke: I admit it! It's the Emo Diet!
3) Luke: It's not MY fault I look better in your clothes than you do.
Ann: Well, you're stretching all my bras out. Buy your own, cheapskate.
"Please, Lord, You gotta help me out here. Prom is NEXT WEEK!!!"
PANEL 2:
HER: "You asked Stacey to the Prom? What were you thinking?"
HIM: "What do you...?"
HER: "Dude, she's a lesbian!"
HIM: "Oh, for the love of..."
PANEL 3:
HER: "But she says she has an extra ticket to the Melissa Ethridge concert if you..."
HIM: "Fine."
Luke: What a horrible day.
Panel 2
Luke: The doctor told me I had to take medication every day for the rest of my life....
Ann: Well, that's not so bad, plenty of people take medication everyday. What's so terrible about that?
Panel 3
Luke: He only gave me four pills.
Ann: Oh ...
2) GIRL: What's wrong?
BOY: My damn trendy hair is in my eyes. Maybe I can see if I brush it back out of my eyes.
3) BOY: Damn, my damn trendy hair is still in my eyes.
GIRL: Did you know that there is this special place that can cure your affliction? It's called the BARBER; let me take you.
More, more, give us more. (I'm so greedy for satire)
Lol.
"Fascist" and right wing "Christian?" I can't begin to imagine any connection there...
2. Sarah: It's blue, Jack.
Jack: Ohshitohshitohshit...
3. Sarah: It'll be okay. I'll have an abortion. Just pick a guy next time, and you won't have this problem, okay?
Jack: Alright... maybe you have the right idea...
I will say I think it's really sad that a lot of young people are going to look at these visuals and come away with the idea that being gay is something that's necessarily a cause for dread and anxiety.
The more time I spend looking at the ex-gay movement, the more it looks to me like a form of cultic abuse.
#1: Oh no, here she comes. I'll try to hide behind my hair.
#2: If I don't make eye-contact perhaps she'll go away
#3: She still doesn't get the message