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Sunday, 08 May 2005

OK, "Underpass Virgin Mary" has just become my new favorite band name, replacing "Timid Animalito" and "Chili Finger."

If you haven't been following the story:

Underpass. Virgin Mary.

Or possibly a giant jellyfish, Crystal Gayle, female genitalia, or Cousin Itt.

Roeper in the Sun-Times, via Detached Retina and First Draft, takes a look at those so inspired by the holy underpass:

Just a few steps west of the holy image, leaning against a streetlight pole on Fullerton, there is a homeless man, holding up a small cardboard sign that says:

HELP

I'M HUNGRY

You'd chastise a screenwriter for such easy symbolism, but there the man sits, squinting against the sun and holding up his sign.

In clusters of two and three and four, the faithful who are flocking to and from the image of the Virgin Mary -- they walk right past the homeless man. They walk right past him, as if he's not even there.

I wish Jesus would come back one of these days. Maybe he could talk some sense into these idiots.

Then again... I guess he already tried.