N.B.: I was in Kenya from 2002 to 2004. Anything that smells like pop culture from those two years is completely unknown to me. If this is old news to you, my apologies.
Tonight I was watching Miami Ink, the TV show about tattooists tattooing tattooed people. It’s a repeat, but still, I hadn’t seen it before. Graduate students don’t watch TV, remember? While I was feeling jealousy about all the new beautiful tattoos that were being inked, I watch this scene where this older woman, Diana Duyser, walks in the shop. She’s carrying a thick frame. She tells Kat, a woman tattooist, that she wants the centerpiece of the frame tattooed above her right breast. The centerpiece… A decade-old grilled cheese sandwich which had an image of the Virgin Mary on it. Diana gets the tattoo while holding the grilled cheese sandwich. “The Virgin Mary came to me. I love her. She’s wonderful. I want to share her with the world.”
Yes.
A TV news crew comes to see the woman getting the grilled cheese sandwich Virgin Mary on her breast. It seems that people go nuts over religious icons, even those that appear on grilled cheese sandwiches, and that Diana has a huge following.
Yes.
Diana, still clutching the framed grilled cheese sandwich Virgin Mary, then tells Kat that she sold it for $28,000 dollars on eBay to some casino.
Yes.
(picture from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4034787.stm, November 23, 2004)
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i knew u’d bounce back after that disasterous maiden blog. ;)
I guess when it comes to loving God, $28,000 ain’t too much to sell out, huh?
love the show. I think it’s a great way to express what you need to believe in. But getting a tattoo of a grilled cheese with the virgin mary? HMM. I’d have to think twice about that. i’m dying to know what went through Kat’s head when she had to do that. She’s an amazing portrait tattoo artist.
Were we supposed to see the virgin mary in that pancake? I’m sorry but all I see are the letters bee and ess.
LOL! All I see is just one moldy piece of bad-carb.
$28,000….I could use 28 grand…
(runs off to look in the garbage for any half eaten sandwiches)
An image of the Virgin Mary recently appeared on a piece of soap. Its on Ebay here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Virgin-Mar.....dZViewItem
Let’s see how much that one sells for!