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Rabbit, rabbit! At least this year it didn't snow for April Fool's Day. Apparently that's tomorrow.
I am not surprised that I felt more ambivalently about this Easter than any year I can remember; Christmas was much the same. But as far back as I can remember, my family has always made Easter baskets for friends and family and always baked a glazed ham with cloves and pineapple and so I spent this afternoon with my parents and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks, celebrating Easter in that capacity, and it was good. My mother had made a flourless hazelnut cake for dessert, because it's Pesach. And then frosted it with Peeps, because Easter.
My father brought a copy of Jill Twiss and EG Keller's A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo (2018) and I can recommend it as both a political riposte and a really sweet children's book. It's funny and cute and inclusive and can be enjoyed by people who do not care about political caricatures, of which there is a quite good one, although for purposes of the story it could be any obnoxious, unqualified authority figure who is quite rightly voted out of the meadow: "Stink bugs are temporary. Love is forever." Very Easter-appropriate, too.
On that front,selkie has just persuaded me that I need to see the Jesus Christ Superstar just now finishing up on NBC, because Brandon Victor Dixon looks astonishing as Judas and nobody told me Ben Daniels was playing Pilate. The Bible in its leatherbound edition, indeed.
I am not surprised that I felt more ambivalently about this Easter than any year I can remember; Christmas was much the same. But as far back as I can remember, my family has always made Easter baskets for friends and family and always baked a glazed ham with cloves and pineapple and so I spent this afternoon with my parents and
rushthatspeaks, celebrating Easter in that capacity, and it was good. My mother had made a flourless hazelnut cake for dessert, because it's Pesach. And then frosted it with Peeps, because Easter.My father brought a copy of Jill Twiss and EG Keller's A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo (2018) and I can recommend it as both a political riposte and a really sweet children's book. It's funny and cute and inclusive and can be enjoyed by people who do not care about political caricatures, of which there is a quite good one, although for purposes of the story it could be any obnoxious, unqualified authority figure who is quite rightly voted out of the meadow: "Stink bugs are temporary. Love is forever." Very Easter-appropriate, too.
On that front,
selkie has just persuaded me that I need to see the Jesus Christ Superstar just now finishing up on NBC, because Brandon Victor Dixon looks astonishing as Judas and nobody told me Ben Daniels was playing Pilate. The Bible in its leatherbound edition, indeed.
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I am glad to hear it! I grew up on the original concept album, so my idea of Judas is always Murray Head with a side of Ben Vereen from years of listening to Standing Room Only, but I am definitely planning on watching this production. Even my mother liked Brandon Victor Dixon, and she is even more skeptical than I am about anyone who is not original cast.