Celebrating Passover and Easter

I want to wish all of you celebrating Passover and Easter this week a happy and healthy holiday.

Here's a few sites that are in the holiday spirit:

Passover v. Easter - the not quite definitive scorecard. I would have given the edge to Easter on account of Babs involvment. Now, if Adam Sandler was invited, that's a different story.

The Passover Seder - Bruce Ratner style. Dayenu. Oy, it would have been enough.

Jib Jab has released a new Passover themed video. (via B.L. Ochman)

And in the "what were they thinking department"... ABC brings us a remake of the Ten Commandments. Did we ask for this? Did we need this? This guy thinks of Mel Brooks when he sees the 10 commandments. Sorry, I see Charlton Heston as Moses. There can be only one. And it's Charlton as the berobed one who does G-d's Will and smites the Egyptians for their wicked treatment of the Israelites. Meryl Yourish has some additional thoughts on the remake.

My own take? One should never mess with the best - even one that is campy and melodramatic and over the top all at once as the 1954 version was. You're only going to make a mess. And it's fascinating to see modern special effects actually do worse than the original effects from the 1956 movie. At least, could they have at least borrowed the Island's black cloud of doom for the part? I'm sure Sayid wouldn't have minded.

Thank goodness ABC is running the Heston epic this weekend.

UPDATE:
Pamela at Atlas Shrugs points out the most important part of the seder plate. Horseradish. Think wasabi except even more potent. Then double it. That's what I recall eating growing up. My folks used to grow the strongest stuff you could ever imagine. It would clear the sinuses real good. If you can't grow it, then buying this stuff is the next best thing. She also satirizes how the New York Times or CNN would report the 10 plagues.

Meanwhile, Slate has a 2-minute seder.

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