Here’s another verse I have a personal connection to: Exodus 8:2.
“And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.”
Why this verse? Well, here’s the story: I’m 1999, Paul Thomas Anderson was working on a film called Magnolia and he made the insane step of making a three-hour movie with about a dozen interlocking plot points and wrapping them all up in a bow like this:
PTA’s initial inspiration for this crazy idea was the works of Charles Fort, who wrote of strange phoenomena, but in pre-production, he found out about this verse. As a result, he decided to incorporate the numbers 8 and 2 into the movie as foreshadowing (and the IMDB trivia page says he managed to do so over a hundred times.)
And then, in 2005, I discovered that film, and the audacity of such a move inspired me to do something odd that I may or may not have told you about before:
A local news station, I forget which one, sent crews to my high school and decided to have the whole student body in the gym cheering over something. And we had to be there at 4:30 in the fucking morning. And as part of this display of whatever it was supposed to be, when the cameras were on us, we were also supposed to be holding up identical signs with our school logo on it. I decided to write “Ex. 8:2” on the back of it, like that lunatic with the “John 3:16” sign. So, I did this on local television (and they did this whole thing twice and I’m fairly certain both times were in 2005) and, apart from seeing a teacher double take at the sight and having to repeatedly explain what Exodus 8:2 said to confused students (bizarrely, they didn’t ask “why that verse?” Just what the text was.)
I think my parents recorded it, and I have no idea where to find it. And, honestly, if you saw it, it’d barely register because the camera quality was so shitty and I was such a small fish in the crowd and my “Ex. 8:2” was done in such thin print that you could only see one guy who had his sign backwards.
“And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.”
Why this verse? Well, here’s the story: I’m 1999, Paul Thomas Anderson was working on a film called Magnolia and he made the insane step of making a three-hour movie with about a dozen interlocking plot points and wrapping them all up in a bow like this:
PTA’s initial inspiration for this crazy idea was the works of Charles Fort, who wrote of strange phoenomena, but in pre-production, he found out about this verse. As a result, he decided to incorporate the numbers 8 and 2 into the movie as foreshadowing (and the IMDB trivia page says he managed to do so over a hundred times.)
And then, in 2005, I discovered that film, and the audacity of such a move inspired me to do something odd that I may or may not have told you about before:
A local news station, I forget which one, sent crews to my high school and decided to have the whole student body in the gym cheering over something. And we had to be there at 4:30 in the fucking morning. And as part of this display of whatever it was supposed to be, when the cameras were on us, we were also supposed to be holding up identical signs with our school logo on it. I decided to write “Ex. 8:2” on the back of it, like that lunatic with the “John 3:16” sign. So, I did this on local television (and they did this whole thing twice and I’m fairly certain both times were in 2005) and, apart from seeing a teacher double take at the sight and having to repeatedly explain what Exodus 8:2 said to confused students (bizarrely, they didn’t ask “why that verse?” Just what the text was.)
I think my parents recorded it, and I have no idea where to find it. And, honestly, if you saw it, it’d barely register because the camera quality was so shitty and I was such a small fish in the crowd and my “Ex. 8:2” was done in such thin print that you could only see one guy who had his sign backwards.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
