Oh Boy, Today Is The Anniversary Of Mormonism
The Church of Latter Day Saints was founded on this day in 1830. The Osmonds came much later.
Hello and happy weekend!
Today is the whatevereth anniversary of the Church of Latter Day Saints, which honestly I have always thought was a pretty smug thing to call your church — but it’s none of my business, I guess.
As such, I thought I would bring you some of my favorite Mormon media!
I am especially fond of this Mormon parody of “Hello” — the Adele song, not the one from The Book of Mormon — at least in part because the guy singing it actually has a legitimately awesome voice.
Unfortunately, you just don’t see a lot of the Mormon parody videos anymore. And they used to be so plentiful! Honestly I think they all probably stopped trying after this guy.
This over here is just the best darn movie about Mormon space marriage that ever was. I wrote about it years ago for Friendly Atheist, should you care for a summary! There are beatniks, atheist professors, and space togas — what more could anyone ask for?
And here is a song about known Mormon person Mitt Romney that has lived rent-free in my head for over a decade at this point. FYI … it gets a little dirty towards the end.
Ugh, it has been far, far too long since William Tapley, Third Eagle of the Apocalypse has put out a jam. These days it’s all rosaries and prophecies and “decodes.”
Anyway! For those who do not want to watch these videos, which I promise you are under no obligation to do, here is an insipid GIF of a kitten and a bunny. Can they haz cheezburger? No one knows! (I mean, except for whoever wrote the list of foods that cats cannot eat that is hanging on my fridge.)
Is that good? This is really not my area of expertise.
Anyway, I am off to go have an amazing day at the Chicago Oddities Market, where the only cute animals I will see will be taxidermied possums playing the banjo, and an amazing night at the City Winery, where Sonja Morgan from RHONY will be doing … something! Stand-up? I think?
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I’m going to whine for a moment. I fully acknowledge that YouTube is not a charity, but a money-making organization. And as-such, ads are how they stay afloat. My philosophy with served ads is generally just ignore them and go about my business. That said, within the last month or so YouTube seems to have gotten EXTRA aggressive with the ads. I used to be able to watch Colbert monologues in piece; now I have to reload the page several times in the middle to click past them.
And now that top link, to the Adele parody: I clicked, it showed me an ad with no way to skip it, so I sighed and waited it out for like 30 seconds. Then it started ANOTHER ad, this one a minute long, so I stopped it and moved on. I suppose YouTube won, because they got me to watch an ad, although I couldn’t tell you now what it was for. But they also lost, because I refused to click the next few links. A single 15-second ad at the start of each video would have been tolerable, and they could have sold 45 seconds of ad time. Instead they got eyeballs for 30 seconds, then lost them, along with a bit more goodwill.
One of my favorite parts of the Mormon Space Love Wars movie is when the professor says marriage is becoming obsolete because divorce sucks and child support sucks. So people will stop legally binding themselves together, but will obviously keep humping and so…babbies. The student says, “what about those babbies, Professor?” His answer? “The government will expand welfare and childcare programs and raise them.” lol. That might be the funniest thing he said. But he’s not entirely wrong, young people aren’t rushing to marry and start a family as it has been written since the dawn of time. Heck, 21 years ago my wife and I met, and we said, nah, let’s just cuddle and do smoochy kisses and use birth control and travel and have adventures for years and years. So we did that for 15 years. Then she decided a baby must happen so we married and had one perfect child who never cried and is remarkably inexpensive and had no adverse effects on our free time or love life. And we lived happily ever after. The End.