It's Easter Again

 

 

Easter Hammer

For Easter season, this months LP is Here Comes The Hammer by M.C. Hammer.

 

 

Actually a twelve inch single, it presents as quite a disturbing record cover.

 

 

Funny Bunny

Shouldn't that type of childhood event turn her into a vigilante like Batman rather than a supervillan? One time back in school some kid knocked my chips out of my hand, but you don't see me dressing like a potato slice and calling myself Crinkle-Cut.

Easter Fears

Here's some Easter related phobias:

Fear of eggs: Ovaphobia

Fear of chocolate: Xocolataphobia

Fear of holidays: Heortophobia

Fear of rabbits: Leporiphobia



"Run away! Run away!"

Easter Week

It's Easter so here's some Easter Week and After songs of the IRA to put you in the festive mood by Dominic Behan.

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) was descended from the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an organisation established on 25 November 1913, that staged an insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in 1916 called the Easter Rising. The insurrection was suppressed after seven days of fighting, and its leaders were court-martialled and executed. Thereafter, the IRA waged a guerrilla campaign against British rule in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 when a treaty was signed. But some IRA members were still not happy and division turned to civil war until around 1969.

From the end of the 1960's to present day the IRA has splintered greatly with all splinter groups claiming legitimacy, though most Irish people dispute of the claims by these splinter groups.  Mostly because they're just a bunch of guys who like to blow things up for attention of their own agenda.

Hollow Rabbits Eggs

The modern English term Easter developed from the Old English word Eastre or Eostre. The name refers to Eostur-monath, a month of the Germanic calendar named after the Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess Eostre.  The egg was a symbol of the rebirth of the earth in pagan celebrations of spring and was adopted by early Christians as a symbol of the rebirth of man for Easter after they conquered and integrated these pagans.  The rabbit is also a pagan symbol of fertility on account of that they are always at it with each other like the filthy rodents they are.

The rabbit bringing eggs has it's origin from Alsace in Southern Germany during the early 17th century.  According to the tradition, children would build brightly coloured nests, often out of caps and bonnets, in secluded areas of their homes. An Easter Hare would lay brightly coloured eggs in the nest if the children had been good.  As the tradition spread, it eventually became the modern egg hunt.  These days the eggs are usually sweet on the outside but hollow on the inside which is probably an accurate analogy of it’s commercialisation.

Most people are aware of the traditional egg hunt game some families do, but there are other much more exciting traditional Easter games like the Egg Dance.  In the Egg Dance a number of eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them breaking as few as possible.  Occasionally it was done blindfolded for extra party entertainment value, like when one of the uncles slips on the yolk and fractures his spine.  A hopping variation popular in England was called the hop-egg.

Just remember that not everything brown and oval left behind by the Easter rabbit is made of chocolate.