Jezebel: easter

Woman Evicted Over Easter Decorations, Fights For Freedom Of Peeps

hortense — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:15:00 EDT

Carol Burdick was recently evicted from her apartment because she insisted on leaving her Easter decorations up for two weeks after the holiday. She is currently suing her landlord; her lawyer claims that her decor should have religious protections. [AP]

Gwen Stefani: Green Eggs & __________

Anna — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:15:00 EDT

[Los Angeles, April 12. Image via INF]

I Am Eating All Of These Today

hortense — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EDT

[Rostock, Germany, March 24. Image via AP.]

Pastry cook Dana Kickhefel works in a chocolate manufactory in Rostock, northern Germany, on up to 35 centimeters high chocolate Easter bunnies on Tuesday, March 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Frank Hormann)

TGIF

Dodai — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:10:00 EDT

["Damn Sink Is Clogged With Hare Again" via Bunny Spice's Flickr.]

Holy Week

Sadie — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:20:00 EDT

Ladies and germs: it's Peeps Week at Serious Eats. And you deranged but vocal minority who loves sweetened cotton fowl? You can now make your own! [SeriousEats]

Peep Shows

Dodai — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:30:00 EDT

Around this time of the year, the little marshmallow birds know as Peeps suddenly surface. Over on Babble.com, you can watch five funny and disturbing videos starring Peeps: Peeps in a microwave; Peeps replacing humans in the movie Jaws; Office Peeps, loosely based on Office Space; Peeps being blown up and, of course, more Peeps in a microwave. (Click the picture to watch 3 Peeps be gruesomely disfigured in a microwave.) [Babble]

Holy Jesus, You All Looked Cute In Those Horrid Easter Ensembles!

Moe — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:00:00 EDT

"Why is today called 'Good Friday?'" Anna IM-ed me wanting to know. Because Jesus was crucified on the cross duh! I replied. But what, she wanted to know, is so good about that? "Because we're Catholics and we LOVE SUFFERING / GUILT / SELF-FLAGELLATION / ETC," I replied, and she dropped the subject. In truth, I think it's good because he died to save us from the original sin committed in the Garden of Eden, and in this very special instance, 2 wrongs did actually turn out to = a right! Anna wasn't persuaded. I thought some more. Perhaps Good Friday was good because being nailed to a cross and dying before you have the chance to get old and wrinkly and senile and get your entire legacy of good corrupted when the world finds out you like to fuck whores is a pretty good way to go. Whatever. At any rate, this was an unusually good Friday because I got to look through some of your most cherished Easter Photos, thanks to some dedicated Flickr gallery drudgery on the part of Maria, and remember a time when red tights and saddle shoes and lace stockings and pairing different shades of pink and showing off my ruffly underwear seemed like a good idea, and I had parents on hand to ask questions like "why is it called 'Good Friday?" Please tour the gallery if only to see feminazi bonerkiller supreme SarahMC like you've never imagined. Oh, and lots of bunny ears. All of it after the jump.

I slaved away to add captions to a lot of them, and I'm adding more as we speak, because it's more fun than writing my next post, so CLICK AWAY.

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(Click any picture to begin the gallery or enlarge image; if you're having trouble seeing all the pics or want to see them in an entire gallery form, click here.)

Reminders

Anna — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:20:00 EDT

Ladies (and Gents!): This Friday, we'll be publishing our gallery of readers' Easter outfits for our second installment of Past Fashion. You have until Thursday evening to send in your submissions! Please forward to us at photos@jezebel.com with 1) the phrase "Past Fashion - Easter Outfits" in the header, and 2) a description of when and where the photo was taken in the message itself. (If you do not want your name mentioned, please let us know.)

Send Us Your Easter Pictures And All Is Forgiven!

Moe — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Easter is when Jesus rose from the dead three days after dying on the cross to save us from our original sins. Original sins are the ones we didn't even commit, that we just had because we were born human, which used to mean "in God's image" but then became flawed because of Eve and that darn apple, and isn't it weird, in the season known for the Bunny bearing gifts of speckled Whopper eggs and Cadbury creme thingys, to think of an apple being a sinful thing to consume? I'm sure they were tastier back before the dawn of modern agribusiness, but still. Anyway Easter is interesting because you never know when it's going to happen, unless your parents happen to be the sort of Catholics who give up drinking for Lent in which case you know exactly when it's going to happen, but anyway it happens the Sunday before the Paschal Full Moon, which — duh — this year is March 23. That means this weekend is Palm Sunday, so you have only ONE WEEK to dredge out your cutest and/or most embarrassing Easter pictures and pay the mailroom guy to scan them and send them to us in the name of Past Fashion, the Jezebel feature that celebrates how we looked before we committed so many sins.

Bonus points if you are wearing a dress that, like reader Katie's, boasts smocking.

Hats, too, are good; as are ribbons in hair — particularly ribbons intricately woven into French braids — and ruffled socks. And any white/pastel colored outfits soiled by Easter egg dye, melted chocolate, blood, etc.

As a bonus and to provide a sense of narrative to the ensuing gallery, we'd also be interested in collecting from Easter picture submitters any and all Drunk Spring Break In Cancun and/or Drunk March Madness Tailgate and/or Drunk St. Patrick's Day bar crawl pictures that might convey a sense of life's inevitable journey toward the realization of Original Sin, or more precisely, highly unoriginal sin.

(Sorry it didn't work, Jesus.)

But really, the cute pastel dress easter egg hunt candy binge photos are the most key. Send them to photos@jezebel.com and earn the undying love of Jezebel and our god (Baal) and also probably Jesus too and also probably Barack Obama.

Full gallery to come Good Friday! (Don't forget to fast!)

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Harry, David, Dean & Deluca: Chocolate Pagan Easter Symbols And $6,000 Caviar

Dodai — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:00:00 EST

So: There was an ancient pagan goddess of spring named Eostre who was celebrated during the Vernal (spring) equinox. Hares (and rabbits) were symbols of the fertility of the season; the saying "mad as a March hare" came from the fact that the critters had so much sex during that time of the year. Eggs were also ancient symbols of fertility because, duh, life hatches from them. And back in the day, people would see hares hopping around in meadows and find nests of plover eggs, then mistakenly think that the fuzzy bunnies were laying them. Then arrival of Christianity confused everything and now some people celebrate Jesus with chocolate egg-laying bunnies. Insane? Sure! But there's candy involved, so it's okay. Easter foodstuffs from Harry & David as well as Dean & Deluca, after the jump.

The cover of the Harry & David catalog claims, "The Easter Bunny shops here," but we have it on good authority that his credit cards get declined.

Wow, a nine-inch solid chocolate bunny. The perfect thing to give to kids right before they're going to have to sit through a sermon at church! Or is it the reward for enduring the service?

Some people probably find it really cute that the rabbit's head comes off and there's candy inside his skull and body; I find it terrifying and creepy.

Isn't cabbage the pagan symbol for vagina? That's where Cabbage Patch Kids come from, right? Also: Egg candles? Really? Can't you envision a scenario in which kids are like, "Why are you burning my Easter Eggs?" And crying? Loudly?

Flowers+chocolate=Good idea. But if someone ever gave me flowers in a picket fence, I'd be vaguely insulted. There's something repressive, apron-stringy and June Cleaver-ish about it. Not in a good way.

Ooh, cheesecake sampler! Wouldn't you rather have this than the nine-inch chocolate bunny? When do we celebrate the goddess of cheesecake?

Giant Cookie Basket from the Better Cookie Bureau, you have my vote in this year's election for Most Delicious Concept.

It's hilarious that the Easter Morning basket comes with a cookie shaped and iced to look like a carrot. Fake healthy! Oh, but look: In addition to a load of candy, you also get a couple of pears and an apple. Life is about balance.

The chicks are super cute, but just for styling purposes: No price listed!

You can, however, get a chicken pot pie. Yum.

Those marzipan critters masquerading with bunny ears should be funny, but they're just not. The chocolate quail eggs are sort of puke-inducingly realistic, as though you can smell the yolk and salmonella through the page.

Sugar is a building block of nutrition, right?

You know, of all the things you can have FedExed to your home, a pound of fish eggs ringing up at $5,900 is really baller-type shit.

For the love of God. If lusting after that Devil's Food cake is a sin, who among us is not guilty?

Pagan symbols aside: Why is that chocolate rabbit driving a car?

[Harry & David]
[Dean & Deluca]

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