**The Daily Travesty**
20 April 2000
Vol. 1 Issue 72
Our Slogan: Just Because We Print Sumthin' Doesn't Mean We Believe It
(Exclusively).
Our Other Slogan: We've Got Lots of Slogans.
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned
slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by
daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions; by comparing
subsequent works to recognized masterpieces and, once more, by destroying them;
by crossing out whole passages; by weeping from despair; by being more severe
with oneself than even the critics will be. After ten years of such
arduous activity, if one has talent, one may begin to write in an acceptable
manner.
Andre Maurois
Sweet Jesus!
A chocolate Jesus which bleeds red jam has outraged Church
leaders. The Easter sweet is marketed as the "immaculate
confection." It's a model of Christ nailed to a chocolate cross, and comes
complete with a crown of thorns and a look of agony. The chocolate Christ is named Sweet Jesus by the man who
invented it, Richard Manderson, of Canberra, Australia. He says eating
them should make people more aware of the meaning of Easter than munching a
chocolate egg. And he's hit on the slogan: "Put religion back into Easter
with an edible icon." But Sydney Catholic Church spokesman Father Brian Lucas
hit back: "They're irreverent and offensive. It's an appalling
exercise in bad taste."
We are once again welcoming your bitching
and griping! We know that it's springtime and everything is
supposed to be warm and breezy, but you and me know it ain't necessarily
so. We are declaring ourselves Keepers of Your Animalistic Tendencies and
we would like to ease your karmic burden by giving you a full
audience. Rants may be posted anonymously. Send an email to the editor.
Now let the song begin! let us sing together Of
sun, stars, moon and mist, rain and cloudy weather Light on the budding
leaf, dew on the feather Wind on the open hill, bells on the heather
Reeds by the shady pool, lillies on the water: Old Tom Bombadil and the
River-daughter!