Hoppyish Easter! It was either THIS - or some demented version of cannibalistic chocolate bunny. But. I am still having nightmares from my first Easter cartoon. And. That went very, very, very … bad.

I am in a mood. So. Ouch. Yeah. This is gonna hurt. Hopefully only in a temporal sense. Not my eternal damnation. Hmm. I hope all that personal growth God demonstrated between the Old and New Testaments wasn’t … fake.

Most of humanity’s ills can be traced to one problem. We are selfish. Our opinion, time, talents, wants, desires – are more “equal”. But. This can’t be solved with laws. Or through force. We evolve together. Or perish together.

Does someone care about THIS math? So. What is half of creation? Is it a very large number? And. How is it measured? Did time start counting at zero? Yet more ponders. What prompted the “bang”? I doubt I’ll ever find out.

Would I die for my beliefs? Nah. For someone else’s? Yep. How about for humanity’s sins? Um, well. It didn’t really help the first time. And yeah. I know tomatoes are a New World thing. I wasn’t in the mood for a cliché.

Painted myself into a corner? A flashback to my years spent directing and performing musical theatre. By most accounts, the "historical Jesus" was an activist – not a revolutionary. The difference? An advocate for accountability, rights and tolerance for non-conformity – not a rejection of the state.

"Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication!" But the world does now. Have you ever pondered what THIS may look like? Imagine if God knocked on the door one day and offered humanity a choice: Resurrection or Armageddon. Some "being" has suggested Acts 17:16-34 for a little "light" reading ...

It's not "Ιησούς" – but some etymological funzies? My given names translate as "One Who Follows the Son of God" and "Guardian of Nirvana*". I'll save my surnames for another day. Hmm. Maybe we do live in a simulation. *Literally "Eternal Bliss" or "Kingdom's Treasure" – I appropriated some license.

After Yvonne Elliman – it's gotta be Sara Bareilles? Anyways. The conflation of the "Marys" was ... evil? Mary of Magdala was from a prominent, wealthy family and may have been (more or less) a "13th apostle". So, THIS? Cringey. Imagine if it was your grandmother. Or about 80 multiples thereof.

THIS? My last production as Music Director. What was in the Jesus Movement "holy water" Schwartz, Tebelak, Webber and Rice "consumed" that inspired such coincidental magizeitgeist? Amusingly, I arrived nine months later – 50 days after Easter – at Mount Sinai Hospital. And day by day ...