UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST!
What a brave Hollywood leftist!
Larry David inspects the Jesus painting he peed on during the latest episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
As a Christian, I believe in Free Speech, because I believe that Freedom comes before the possibility of Virtue.
So, I honestly don’t care if Larry David pees on a photo of Jesus. Jesus is, if you believe in Him, big enough to take care of Himself.
Now, wake me up when Larry David pees on a painting of Mohammed.
UPDATE - Damien tells me the real plot of the story. Larry David's character did not intend to pee on the picture of Jesus:
Larry David is visiting the house of one of his former employees, in order to convince her to come back to work for him. Soon has to go the bath room. He pees on the picture by accident because he's taking this really powerful medicate that makes his urine stream really strong and some of it hits the painting.
For some reason, Larry doesn't trying to get the drop of urine off the painting which lands right below one of the eyes. The two women who live in there, later enter the bath room and think that picture of Jesus is crying. They think they are witnessing a miracle.
Honestly, I do think that is funny.
That being said, the larger point of the post still stands. Let Larry David accidentally pee on a picture of Mohammed next time.
Ok? Try that, Larry. That would be some comedy worthy of Andy Kaufman.
Pastorius,
ReplyDeleteI saw this episode it was very funny. Although I can see how a sincere, highly devote Christian might be offend. But unlike a Jihadists few of them would consider murdering him for this. But off course that's a major difference between reasonable religious people and those fanatics.
Damien,
ReplyDeleteI think Larry David is very funny. I don't know the context of the show, so I can't imagine how this could be funny, but David, I would imagine could make it funny.
All that being said, you know Larry David wouldn't have the balls to stand up to Muslims.
What is the context of the show?
Why did he pee on the picture of Jesus?
ReplyDeletePastorius,
ReplyDeleteLarry David is visiting the house of one of his former employees, in order to convince her to come back to work for him. Soon has to go the bath room. He pees on the picture by accident because he's taking this really powerful medicate that makes his urine stream really strong and some of it hits the painting. For some reason, Larry doesn't trying to get the drop of urine off the painting which lands right below one of the eyes. The two women who live in there, later enter the bath room and think that picture of Jesus is crying. They think they are witnessing a miracle.
Pastorius,
ReplyDeleteYou really have to watch the episode in order to get it.
Oh, so he doesn't MEAN to pee on the picture of Jesus.
ReplyDeleteThat is funny.
I'll amend the post.
Because of this a lot of Christians are going crazy on the street and killing leftists "left and right". Hollywood is burning! And the UN has scheduled an emergency meeting and are about to pass a resolution that makes it illegal for you to pee on Jesus' picture, from now on, you have to aim right. While, outside the UN headquarters, Christian fundamentalists are burning hollywood DVDs and chanting "death to Hollywood, Christianity will prevail!" and...--you know how it is ;-).
ReplyDeleteForget about peeing on a Mohammad painting. Simply possessing a painting that depicts Mohammad is enough of a reason for a mob of angry Muslims to kill you and tear you to pieces.
ReplyDeleteYep. Good point.
ReplyDeleteTotal,
ReplyDeleteWhat did you think of the Lakers opening game, with Bynum scoring 26 points?
I was at the game last night and seeing all the old greats and the newer ones (Rick Fox and Robert Horry) almost brought a tear to my eye. It's been clear since the preseason that Andrew Bynum is back in top shape, injury free, and can be an absolute monster in the post (especially when teamed up with another highly-skilled 7 footer). Bynum has to continue his recent play (from the preseason and yesterday) and stay injury free. If he does both, Bynum, who just turned a tender 22 yesterday, should be a lock for the Western Conference All-Star team and will certainly give opponents more reasons to lament playing against the Lakers. We all know that the Lakers won the championship last season with Bynum clearly not at 100%. Imagine what they could do if 'Drew can stay on the floor consistently at full strength. The Lakers have so much size between Bynum, Gasol, Odom, and Artest; it's almost ridiculous. There are few teams that I can think of in basketball history that have had so many skilled big men on one team. As NBA GMs always say, "You can't teach size".
ReplyDeleteYes, I thought last years Lakers team was one of the best ever. Previously, my favorite was the 1971-72 Wilt Chamberlain Lakers. I was about 7-8 at the time.
ReplyDeleteI loved the Magic/Kareem Lakers of the 80's, but frankly, I don't think they were nearly as good as last years Lakers.
And this years Lakers has the potential to be even better.
By the way, I think Magic Johnson is the greatest basketball player ever to play the game, and that's saying a lot coming from this Wilt fan. But, he made his team look like geniuses, and even to this day, when you hear him talk about them, he talks like they were geniuses.
BUT, THEY WERE NOT.
Kareem was not a good defensive Center.
Worthy was not a great Power Forward, and Byron Scott was about the level of Derek Fisher, which means, good but not great.
Shaq and Kobe were a great tandem, but that was NOT a fun team to watch. Not like the 80's and not like last year.
This team, with Gasol, Bynum, Kobe, Artest, Odom, Shannon Brown, and D-Fish is just friggin' awesome.
Jordan Farmar's contract will not be renewed imho.
Shannon Brown is the future for the Lakers. That guy is a great player with the attitude of a decent player. If the greatness of attitude of Phil, Kobe, and Gasol can rub off on Shannon, he could be a monster.
I thought the 2000-2001 Lakers were one of the best teams as no other team could match the focus they played with on a daily basis (with the possible exceptions of the '87 Lakers and '96 Bulls). That Laker team only lost one game in the entire postseason and completely wiped the floor with quality teams teams of the time such as Mike Dunleavy's Blazers, Rick Adleman's Kings, Coach Pop's Spurs (with Tim Duncan in his prime), and to a lesser extent Larry Brown's Sixers.
ReplyDeleteTotal,
ReplyDeleteYou're right, the 2000-2001 team was dominating, but for me they were not fun to watch. I hated the triangle under Shaq. I love Shaq. I love Kobe, but Shaq, Kobe and the triangle offense, somehow, just was not fluid.
By the way, did you know the 71-72 Lakers used the Triangle Offense to win that championship. It is amazing how many championships Tex Winter's offense has won.
I think the 68 Warrior (with Wilt) also won the championship with the Triangle, if I recall correctly.
And then, you have the six Bulls Championships and the five Lakers championships, and you've got about 1/5 of all championships in history being won by a team playing the triangle.
And very few teams have ever actually tried to play it.
Anyway, back to the subject, Shaq and Kobe should have been great together, but it was just so boring watching them bring the ball down court, throw it into Shaq, Shaq try to get position, if he didn't he'd throw it out, then back in, then he'd he'd slam it.
Woowee.
Shaq was more fun with the Magic.
The triangle with Kobe and Gasol is a beautiful thing to behold. Very fluid. All the cuts and angles creating new angles. All the passing. It's awesome.
The good thing about Artest is that if Bynum ever gets tempted to ground and pound like Shaq, Artest will make a cut to the basket, and Bynum's way will be clogged. He'll either have to pass to Artest or out to one of the perimeter guys.
No one seemed to have the audacity to cut when Shaq had the ball.