In honor of the Season....

I suspect, dear readers, that you are not a very religious bunch. Oh, I hear things, I do - it's not all tablesettings and linen closets around here: But apart from infrequent accounts of recorder playing amongst the Des Moines Episcopaleans, or rather unsuccessful sing-alongs of obscure Mormon Hymns, our quota of churchy stuff is rather sparse.

So that's why I bring you this rather annoying website which features all of your (?) favorite hymns, all played on the most irritating syntesizer known to man.

THERE ARE THOSE OF YOU (I'm thinking of you, Madison Houswife) who will doubtless enjoy this in much the same way that I do. In the same way that I enjoy singing songs slightly off-key, or changing the object of love songs to first person (For instance, "If Ever I Would Leave You" from Camelot is much better when sung as "If Ever I would Leave Me")

If nothing else, it's a wonderful way to get some solitude: I was being driven to distraction, trying to think of what to type today, with the Greek yammering about SOMETHING, and the Colonel yakking away on the phone, and the livestock being livestocky. All it took was a playing of "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam", and I had the kitchen all to myself.

Ain't Technology Grand?

And just so you don't think I'm being sacreligious, I offer you this lovely ceremony, direct from Texas (although it could be Council Bluffs. In fact, this girl probably got the idea for this from an Abraham Lincoln High School Baccelaureate service)