Wednesday, September 06, 2006

The Church of the Latter Day Elvi




Those two great American icons Jesus and Elvis have found a meeting place at a Catholic church in Selma, Ca. Although he claims he never does a mass dressed as the King, the priest is often in Elvis mode, tightly packed into the white suit he bought on the internet. He swivels and waddles his way through church picnics and fundraisers like some sort of Holy Hillbilly.

They say the Lord works in mysterious ways but I say Elvis works in even more mysterious ways. Wouldn’t it make more sense that a priest would dress up as Jesus than Elvis? Yet, I can’t remember the last Jesus impersonator I saw. Elvis impersonators grow on trees. It won’t be long before Christmas is replaced by Elvis’s birthday as the nations’s biggest holiday. You only have 65 more shopping days before E Day.

Messiah’s come and messiahs go but there will never be another Elvis. He even named his house Graceland.