Friday, December 02, 2005

and isn't it ironic?

an amish woman just placed a telephone order: for CDs.

the amish community in inola, oklahoma - where my family has been
known to eat - sneaks out the radio and the pick-up trucks when they think the customers aren't looking.

the amish communities of lancaster county have separated themselves from "the world" in order to satiate the world's consumer needs and send them back to philadelphia and surrounding environs with bloated bellies.

it appears that our anabaptist bretheren and sistern have finally rent the "boundary" between the sacred and the secular. i think it is time for their fundie and evangelical friends to follow in their hand-cobbled footsteps instead of romanticizing their supposed lifestyle.

for fun images of amish boys doing crystal meth and amish girls busting out the clevage, check out the devil's playground.

4 comments:

Mike Murrow said...

we had a huge amish community back in Kansas. when i was in Canada there were the huterites - conservativer minnonites - same lifestyle as the amish. appareantly there are minnonite communities in mexico and canada that are connnected through cousins and so on. they are taking over the drug trade. i shit you not. the reason being that they all live in tight communities they all speak german as a first language and they have dual citizenship in mexico and canada so when the heat is on in one country they hi-tail it to the other. apparently the other drug lords are scared shitless of these guys.

you can read about it here

you can do all the blow you want but don't you go near a dance hall

Ian Eastman, M.A. said...

I checked out the preview of The Devil's Playground. It reminded me of the Amish Studs skit on the old Ben Stiller Show.

g13 said...

I.F. - amish playground is where it's at. i wish my parents had been that permissive during my rumaspringa period. i would have been de-bonneting tha ladies left and right...if you know what i'm saying.

Fletch - that article is insane. I knew that Brother Tom, my supplier, is a Mennonite, but I always considered him a black sheep. I guess for the Mennonite community blow is the new black.

Mike Murrow said...

wow