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Re: My new LEGO site is up
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lugnet.build
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Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:02:49 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Greg Perry writes:
> Hey Rev., I've enjoyed the pictures of your work on Brickshelf for some time
> now. The new web site looks great - chocked full of all kinds of great eye
> candy and filled with all kinds of detailed ideas to inspire others (for
> instance I might have to "borrow" some of your Nativity scene details to
> make one for my Mom because out of the dozens she breaks out at X-mas each
> year she doesn't have a single one made out of LEGO [if you can imagine that]).
Hi, Greg.
Thanks for the compliments. Glad I can inspire others just as other
LUGNETers have inspired me. Feel free to borrow ideas or details from the
Nativity or other stuff I've done. That's what it's all about. So your mom
really brings out dozens of nativity scenes each year? That's wild.
Growing up, my mom would put out our nativity scene with all its associated
action figures (at least that's how I saw them at the time), and as the days
went by leading up to Christmas, I would slowly add more and more figures
(from, say, my Star Wars figures collection, Fisher Price people, Weebles,
or perhaps the odd army man) until it became quite the crowded manger. I
think my mom allowed this because she knew in my mind that it wasn't
sacrilegious at all - they were all there to see the baby Jesus, so what's
wrong with that?
So, although I'm not religious, I have a lot of sentimental attachment to
the nativity scene. And when I decided to create one out of LEGO, I didn't
really want to make something outrageous - like the grab bag of characters
that populated the nativities of my youth - just the classic characters
from the Bible stories and popular tradition.
> Thanks for putting together the site - it gets one of the best honors I can
> bestow - a bookmark in my browser's LEGO folder. I'll be back for more.
I am quite honored. Thanks.
> I've resisted the urge to ask this before but now I'm going to give in and
> just do it because there must be others who are curious about this too -
> Exactly what type/kind of Reverend are you? After looking at your creations
> I would guess that you're a minister of the Church of the SubGenius
> (www.subgenius.com) but maybe you're a Presbyterian or such.
"The Reverend" has just been a longtime knickname for me, dating back to
junior high school. Mostly I like the way it sounds, and in my more
pretentious moments I like to think that I am revered by some, at least on
occasion. I did ordain myself as a minister of Crazy Eddie's Discount
Religion back in college, but I have no affiliation with the Church of the
SubGenius.
-The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith @8-)
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