Annotated 5-22
Scarlett’s last bit of Scripture here is like Bandit Keynes’ name: just a pun for the fun of it. Around the time we were writing this, I was doing the Fake Bible Project, an ambitious attempt to “translate” the Bible into slangy modern English while laying its contradictions bare and seasoning it with snark, one tweet at a time. It never really took off and I had to kill it about three books in, but you can get the whole treatment of Genesis here.
Lev18:22 "Don't fuck a man like you fuck a woman! That's disgusting! Gay guys prefer anal. Women like oral, and more cuddling afterward."
— Fake Bible Edition (@FakeBible) March 15, 2012
That Genesis preview was delightful. How and why did the enterprise end?
I was doing a lot at that point, and many of my newer projects were not finding an audience the way Fans, Penny and Aggie, and Guilded Age had. I had to let something go. Much as I hate to leave anything unfinished, I had to admit that it was getting to be a slog for me (and maybe for the reader too) at some point after Genesis.
Some books of the Bible are a lot easier to make amusing and entertaining than others. Genesis has some genealogy shit you gotta skim through, but otherwise, it’s jam-packed with fantastic stories and characters. Exodus starts out the same way. But Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers get increasingly wrapped up in details of the refugee Jews’ lives and the laws under which they lived (farming, slave management, meat donations, tabernacle maintenance), and Deuteronomy consists largely of Moses repeating and summarizing stuff from those last few books. Leviticus 25, for example, is 55 verses about “the Sabbath year” and “the Year of Jubilee,” which was a good deal more challenging to turn into a comedy routine than the nine-verse story of the Tower of Babel.
So even God adds fillers to his manga and made the Moses story arc where they mostly remember past episodes…
Does the Bible have a tournament arc? I would read the tournament arc.
Judges is pretty ballin’ since it’s where you hear about Sampson, (the biblical take on Hercules), and Gideon, (the biblical take on 300) along with a few others. Come to think of it, a lot of stuff in there has overlaps with other legends and myths from other cultures. Makes you wonder who was copying who?
Cheers,
Cote
You what the real issue with things that only have one eye (or are an eye)? They’re real easy to blind and blindside, not to mention they lack depth perception. The Bloodshot Eyeball didn’t see Frigg’s one woman riot coming and nor did they expect her to make “friends”.
Don’t think I didn’t catch the reference. “Eternal sunshine rewards our spotless souls…” shameless, if you ask me.