happy easter! as you may have figured out by now, i'm not a particularly religious person, but who doesn't love a holiday where you wake up to baskets of chocolate and jelly beans? and easter egg hunts. those are the bomb.

anyway, as far as i can figure it out, the italians are a culture who have figured out how to do easter right. lots of creepy, creepy religious symbolism, freaky ritualized ceremonies (check out the florentine explosion of the cart, or scoppio del carro), and food. check out these photos of an easter parade i saw when i was in naples two years ago. it was a bizarrely lovely thing. the lovesicily blog also has an interesting post on easter stuff in the town of ispica.

as for me, i'm going to clean up some of the remnants of last night's dinner party (ask tommy to tell you about his STUPID, STUPID theory regarding video gamers and the girls that desperately want to screw them sometime) and then am off to my family's house with tommy, where we will hopefully eat ham. lots and lots of ham.