tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88558272592377639142024-02-07T16:32:05.263-08:00Ivy League Exorcist BlogOfficial Blog for the short Dogme film Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal StoryLes Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-74335747209126764962018-02-24T14:21:00.000-08:002018-03-20T18:08:46.439-07:00CultJam Productions' Films and Comix<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Film and </b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Comix:</span></b><br />
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2. <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2014/02/new-tom-cruisexenu-anti-scientology.html">"Cock-Tale: A Modern Tijuana Bible"</a> starring Tom Cruise and Xenu. French version (l'edition francais) <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2015/03/ledition-francais-de-cock-tale-une.html">is here</a>.<br />
3. <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2017/09/new-comic-book-exorcist-for-president.html">"An Exorcist for President in 2020? Trump's Nightmare"</a> a Jack T. Chick tract parody.<br />
4. <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2016/04/donald-trump-is-antichrist-revised.html">"Donald Trump Is The Antichrist"</a> a Chick tract parody and <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2016/01/trump-is-antichrist-new-jack-chick.html">an earlier version</a>. Spanish version "Donald Trump Es El Anticristo! Ay Caramba!" is <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2016/10/donald-trump-es-el-anticristo-nuevo.html">here</a>.<br />
5. <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.it/2014/10/new-ivy-league-exorcist-promotional.html">"Ivy League Exorcist"</a> a Chick tract parody and <a href="http://ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-promotional-jack-chick-tract-parody.html">an earlier version</a>.<br />
6. <a href="http://www.ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/2012/07/jack-chick-parody-tract-used-to-promote.html">"A Demon-Hunting Veep"</a> a Chick tract parody. The panel in this tract that listed "doorways to demonic possession" became an internet meme. <a href="http://ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/2012/08/decontextualization-memetics-semiotics.html">Read the article</a> about this viral phenomenon "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Decontextualization, Memetics, Semiotics, and The Ivy League Exorcist Chick Tract Parody."</span><br />
7. Information about the forthcoming Chick tract parody <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2016/03/jerry-falwell-in-hell-forthcoming-comix.html">"Falwell in Hell"</a><br />
8. Buy comix at <a href="http://www.ebay.com/usr/cultjamproductions95">our store</a>Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-42032333039277126922018-02-24T13:46:00.000-08:002018-02-24T15:46:49.023-08:00Crappy Art but Good Message on Operation Red Sea<div>
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I was on Twitter tweeting for CultJam Productions (@cultjampro) and I needed an image for a tweet on the Chinese propaganda film Operation Red Sea. In five minutes, I have this detourned Operation Red Sea movie poster that shows Tank Man of Tiananmen Square as the real hero of China. Yes, this artwork is ugly, on the nose, and hasty but it does the trick.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-20722874350963555192016-02-04T11:05:00.000-08:002016-02-04T11:05:19.577-08:00New Chick Tract Parody Skewers Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal for Their Exorcism-related Activities!It's called <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2016/01/trump-is-antichrist-new-jack-chick.html">"Trump Is The Antichrist"</a>. It pokes fun at Rubio for attending Christ Fellowship whose pastor Rick Blackwood has performed exorcisms and exhorts his flock to cast out demons. It also mocks Trump for his titty bar at the Trump Taj Mahal.<br />
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Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-9712149341178934392015-10-28T08:16:00.001-07:002015-10-28T08:16:05.873-07:00CultJam Productions Participated in Telephone Town Hall Meeting with Bobby Jindal! Troy Davis writes:<br />
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I was on the line but didn't have a chance to ask him about what he thought about <a href="http://www.cultjampro.com/">Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal Story</a>. Details <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2015/10/i-almost-got-chance-to-ask-bobby-jindal.html">here</a>.Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-22768078694859750012015-08-07T18:26:00.000-07:002015-08-07T18:26:00.243-07:00Media Hackers Punk Fundie Radio Show and Promote Spoof Film<div class="tr_bq">
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I was checking out the response to last night GOP presidential debate on right-wing talk radio today and was tuned into Bryan Fischer's <a href="http://www.afr.net/afr-talk/focal-point/">Focal Point radio show</a>. Focal Point is part of The American Family Association, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Family_Association">American fundamentalist political organization</a>. Fischer is a poster boy for <a href="http://tobingrant.religionnews.com/2014/01/23/top-5-unbelievable-bryan-fischer-quotes/">why separation of church and state is a great idea</a>. Anyhow, he told his listeners to call and let him know which candidate was the most impressive. I dialed the call-in number and acted like a live one to the screener. Since I had a friend's phone with a 740 area code, I told her I was "Randall from Bridgeport, Ohio." When Fischer got to me on the show, here's how the call went:<br />
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FISCHER: Well, you know Bobby Jindal, I mean, there isn't any question, Randall, that Bobby Jindal is one of us: when it comes to his evangelical faith, when it comes to his values, when it comes his recognition of the authority of scripture, when it comes to his being completely unapologetic about publicly praying and engaging in public prayer. You're talking about an exorcism that he witnessed or was a part of when he was in college, [and he] writes unapologetically about that and, you know, he was one of the first governors--I think he was the first governor, maybe, to suspend funding for Planned Parenthood through Medicaid or Medicare--I think it was Medicaid--through Medicaid in Louisiana. He was the first state to do that. Other states have since followed suit, Alabama today. Governor Jindal, you're exactly right, was out there in front. Governor Jindal believes in the power of prayer. <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/01/the_response_jan_24.html">He convened, about eight months ago, a prayer rally at Louisiana State, Baton Rouge</a>. [He] got a lot of criticism for that. I got relentlessly hammered over that because AFA was connected to that prayer event so the left just went after me hammer and tongs. Bobby Jindal was undeterred because this was about prayer; it's not about anything else. We're going ahead and we're going to have this prayer event. Alright, Randall, good call. I appreciate that. </blockquote>
Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-3142234379530579342015-07-15T12:43:00.001-07:002015-07-15T12:43:58.496-07:00New Press Release for the short film Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal Story<h1>
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On June 24, 2015, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal announced that he would be a 2016 presidential candidate. The members of the film collective CultJam Productions had released the short film about Jindal’s college years, <b><i>Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal Story</i></b>, on its website (<a href="http://www.cultjampro.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.cultjampro.com</span></a>) to rave reviews. Richard von Busack, the film reviewer for Metro Silicon Valley, called the film “a sharp shocker . . . worthy of John Waters.” <a href="http://www.metroactive.com/movies/ivy-league-exorcist.html">http://www.metroactive.com/movies/ivy-league-exorcist.html</a> Peter Jacobs of the Ivy Gate Blog (now at Business Insider) wrote that <i>Ivy League</i> Exorcist is “probably the best 11-minute film you will watch all day. Trust us.” <a href="http://www.ivygateblog.com/2012/07/what-were-watching-and-you-should-be-too-ivy-league-exorcist-the-bobby-jindal-story/">http://www.ivygateblog.com/2012/07/what-were-watching-and-you-should-be-too-ivy-league-exorcist-the-bobby-jindal-story/</a> The film also was covered by The London Daily Telegraph, Wonkette, and The Huffington Post.</div>
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Governor Jindal’s people were less impressed. Governor Jindal’s spokesman, Kyle Plotkin, said of the film, <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">“That movie is insane. It’s just plain absurd.” <a href="http://ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/2014/04/lost-article-about-ivy-league-exorcist.html">http://ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/2014/04/lost-article-about-ivy-league-exorcist.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The film is a deadpan comedy film, a postmodern mumblecore-style examination of a disturbing event. The film is a tongue-in-cheek dramatization of the bizarre events that took place in a Brown University classroom in 1990. Jindal and members of a student Christian group were holding a prayer vigil for a fellow member who had been diagnosed with skin cancer when the afflicted woman suddenly collapsed on the floor, convulsed, and showed sudden and drastic personality changes that Jindal and the other students interpreted as demonic possession. The group performed a do-it-yourself exorcism on the woman. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Jindal wrote about the incident in a conservative Catholic journal The New Oxford Review in 1994; the title of the article was “Beating a Demon: Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare.” Davis got the idea of doing a short film about the incident after he read the New Oxford Review piece in the summer of 2011: “After I finished reading the article,” recounted Davis, “my first thought was, ‘Wow, this is totally surreal!’ My second thought was that of a filmmaker, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to do a reenactment of the exorcism in the form of a mumblecore-style film?’” The film is intended to have a deconditioning effect, that is, it is intended to jolt people out of ordinary modes of thinking. This film is very postmodern in that it employs pastiche, intertextuality, and blends highbrow and lowbrow elements. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Eventually Davis saw the subversive media potential of the film: “On the one hand,” Davis quipped, “using a cinema vérité or mumblecore cinematography style, the film would have a documentary feel to it. I was convinced that some people viewing the film would be convinced that it was a documentary of the actual events—I’m reminded of a recent survey indicating that many people didn’t realize that Stephen Colbert’s TV show persona is satirical in nature. We decided to introduce some over-the-top elements into the film, not just for shock value or cheap laughs, but to test the naïveté of the audience—were they in on the gag?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Davis noted that the members of CultJam Productions, a film collective, were uniquely suited for the odd nature of the film: “In the nineties, I discovered postmodernism, media hacking, and cyberpunk culture; these aren’t just theories, they were and continue to be a way of life.” Mario Glaviano, the director, and Francesca Stonum, the co-DP and editor, are graduates of the film program at San Diego State University when they were protégés of postmodernist and cyberpunk theorist Larry McCaffery. The assistant director, Mark Schwab, is a veteran of the mumblecore film movement and whose experiments in improvisation and the do-it-yourself ethic have been landing him accolades in underground film festivals. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CultJam Productions did a guerilla-style promotion of the film at Comic-Con in San Diego in 2012. Davis noted, “We created a mini-comic book promoting the film that mimicked the style of the inflammatory fundamentalist Jack Chick comic book tracts; it can be seen here: <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-ivy-league-exorcist-promotional.html">http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-ivy-league-exorcist-promotional.html</a> Davis quipped, “We handed them out to the conventioneers and most thought we were crazy religionists but some of the more discerning people appreciated the irony and the fact that they were in on the joke.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Members of CultJam Productions are concerned that people will think the film is an attempt to influence politics. “People who think this is a hit job on Jindal don’t get the point,” Davis said, “The college years are a time for people to do stupid things. If anything, I think that with Jindal, unlike Barack Obama who was doing coke in college, at least his heart was in the right place. He meant well. I think there are some deeper issues, nonpolitical ones that the film addresses. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>CONTACT: </b>Troy Davis, co-producer of CultJam Productions <a href="mailto:cultjampro@gmail.com">cultjampro@gmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ivy League Exorcist site: <a href="http://www.cultjampro.com/">www.cultjampro.com</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Ivy League Exorcist blog: <a href="http://ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/">http://ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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CultJam Productions blog: <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/">http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Ivy League Exorcist IMDb page: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330536/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330536/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Promotional Ivy League Exorcist Chick Tract Parody: <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-ivy-league-exorcist-promotional.html">http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-ivy-league-exorcist-promotional.html</a></div>
Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-16889831673048154112015-07-11T15:12:00.001-07:002015-07-11T15:12:18.149-07:00Pair Plan to Make a Rock Opera Based on Jindal ExorcismTroy Davis writes:<br />
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<a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/bobby_jindal_exorcism_rock_ope.html">The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported</a> that two political operatives, Brian Welsh and Chris Chiari, plan to make a rock opera based on the infamous Brown University exorcism that Louisiana governor and presidential candidate Bobby Jindal participated in as an undergraduate. The pair started <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2114004508/the-exorcism-of-sue-rock-opera">a Kickstarter campaign for the project</a>.<br />
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As the person who came up with the idea for the film <a href="http://www.cultjampro.com/"> adaptation of the exorcism</a> (as well as <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-ivy-league-exorcist-promotional.html">a comic book promoting the film</a>) I believe the two are stealing our idea to do an absurdist version of the exorcism and trying to make a quick buck off of our idea. I think this is wrong.Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-83520921458859697702015-06-24T14:21:00.001-07:002015-06-24T14:21:26.798-07:00Our Film Ivy League Exorcist Mentioned in story in the London Daily Telegraph!Troy Davis writes:<br />
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I was interviewed by Raf Sanchez for the story titled, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/republicans/11697570/Meet-the-Republican-presidential-candidate-who-once-performed-an-exorcism.html">"Meet the Republican Presidential Candidate Who Once Performed an Exorcism."</a><br />
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Mr Davis said the film was not meant as "political hack job" against the Louisiana governor but rather as a satire of Christian religious fundamentalists who constantly claimed the Devil was at work in America. </blockquote>
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"I thought the whole Jindal exorcism was completely absurd but it's really just a manifestation of the hysteria around the fear of Satan," he said. </blockquote>
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Now he'll need to deal with it all over again as he aims for America's top job. Maybe garlic and holy water will do the trick.</blockquote>
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Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-81508550828197928622015-06-24T13:02:00.003-07:002015-06-24T13:04:11.189-07:00Bobby Jindal Announces that He is Running for President in 2016!Governor Jindal's Announcement is <a href="http://www.bobbyjindal.com/announcement/">here</a><br />
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Our online film<a href="http://www.cultjampro.com/"> Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal Story</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330536/?ref_=nm_flmg_cin_1">IMDb page</a> for <i>Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal Story</i><br />
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<a href="http://ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/2012/08/ivy-league-exorcist-in-media.html">List of media outlets</a> that wrote about <i>Ivy League Exorcist</i><br />
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<a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-ivy-league-exorcist-promotional.html">Chick tract parody</a> that promotes <i>Ivy League Exorcist</i>Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-46700577892034903202015-06-19T09:25:00.003-07:002015-06-19T09:26:21.423-07:00Changes to Ivy League Exorcist Comic BookTroy Davis writes:<br />
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I made some changes in anticipation of Bobby's June 24 "major announcement" regarding his presidential plans. I added some gags and Richard Nixon makes a cameo appearance in Hell. Check it out <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-ivy-league-exorcist-promotional.html">here</a>.<br />
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Also for comix fans, check out <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2014/02/new-tom-cruisexenu-anti-scientology.html">"Cock-Tale: A Modern Tijuana Bible,"</a> a satire of Scientology. French edition <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2015/03/ledition-francais-de-cock-tale-une.html">here</a>.Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-66336561800252913772014-10-22T13:01:00.005-07:002014-10-22T13:01:59.221-07:00New Chick Tract Parody to promote the film Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal StoryIt's on CultJam Productions' <a href="http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-ivy-league-exorcist-promotional.html">main blog</a>.Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-47189724486781412912014-04-07T18:30:00.002-07:002014-04-07T18:30:53.711-07:00Lost Article about Ivy League Exorcist from the Baton Rouge AdvocateThe first article about the film <i>Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal Story</i> was published in the Baton Rouge Advocate; the story by political journalist Michelle Millhollon, gave us the immortal quote by Jindal's spokesman, Kyle Plotkin, that the film was "insane." (the quote was used for<a href="http://ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/2012/12/new-ivy-league-exorcist-poster.html"> the movie poster)</a>.<br />
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Speculation about who will be Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s running mate is re-igniting interest in Gov. Bobby Jindal’s so-called exorcism experience.</div>
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National political writers and filmmakers recently took note of the governor’s college activities after Jindal emerged as a possible contender for the vice presidential slot.</div>
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Long before he ran for governor, Jindal made the experience public by writing about it in a 1994 issue of New Oxford Review, an orthodox Catholic magazine.</div>
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He described his college friend Susan’s battle with a “demon” before a group of Christian students on the Brown University campus.</div>
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“At first, Susan responded to biblical passages with curses and profanities. Mixed in with her vile attacks were short and desperate pleas for help. In the same breath that she attacked Christ, the Bible’s authenticity, and everyone assembled in prayer, Susan would suddenly urge us to rescue her. It appeared as if we were observing a tremendous battle between the Susan we knew and loved and some strange evil force,” Jindal wrote.</div>
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Jindal wrote that he physically protected Susan with holy water and blessed crucifixes.</div>
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Now Jindal’s experience is the inspiration for a film shot in California on a $300 budget.</div>
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Earlier this month, members of film collective CultJam Productions went to Comic-Con 2012 to bring attention to “Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal Story.”</div>
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The roughly 11-minute video, which as of Friday evening had gotten 20 views on YouTube, purports to depict the experience described by Jindal.</div>
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Foul language is used. An actress playing Susan thrashes about on the floor. The bespectacled man playing Jindal is mostly shown hanging back, watching the scene unfold from afar, while narrating the episode in a voice-over.</div>
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Although he usually issues at least a prepared statement in response to an interview request, Jindal refused to do so when asked Friday about the film.</div>
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The governor’s spokesman, Kyle Plotkin, wrote: “That movie is insane. It’s just plain absurd.”</div>
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The film’s writer and producer, Troy Davis, of Los Angeles, said he created the video because he was flabbergasted when he read the New Oxford Journal article earlier this year. He said the experience that Jindal described was bizarre and demented.</div>
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“I wanted to throw it back to people and say, ‘Hey, make up your own minds,’ ” Davis said in an interview.</div>
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Davis, who holds degrees from Ohio universities, put out a San Jose, Calif., casting call in March for preppy students and an angelic savior. The parts of Susan and Jindal already had been cast.</div>
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The casting call warned that no compensation would be given, other than meals, a DVD and an Internet Movie Database credit. The call promised the film would capitalize “on the humor of how bizarrely the events unfolded that night.”</div>
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Davis said CultJam is not into commercialization, Hollywood or even politics.</div>
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He said he sees Jindal as a victim of satanic panic.</div>
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“I’m an independent. Sure, I’m going to vote for (President Barack) Obama, but I’m not carrying his water by any means,” Davis said.</div>
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The video is not the only piece on Jindal’s so-called exorcism experience posted on YouTube. A search for that topic produces several dozen hits.</div>
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One clip features a shot of Jindal’s head bobbing around the screen as a man speaks through the screen of a roaring fire.</div>
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Making the case against Jindal becoming vice president Thursday, Washington Post columnist Chris Cillizza mentioned the governor’s disappointing 2009 national address, his initial support of Texas Gov. Rick Perry for president and “his participation in what some have described as an exorcism during his college years.”</div>
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Time magazine described the so-called exorcism as an obvious downside in Jindal’s “glittering” résumé.</div>
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“Without casting any aspersions on Jindal’s beliefs, it’s safe to say that Romney, who has dealt with an undercurrent of bigotry toward his own faith, likely wants to avoid a protracted discussion of religious practices that would overshadow his focus on the economy,” the magazine said.</div>
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Troy Davis writes:<br />
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The decontextualized page of CultJam Productions' <a href="http://ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/2012/07/jack-chick-parody-tract-used-to-promote.html">Chick tract parody</a> went <a href="http://www.ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/2012/08/decontextualization-memetics-semiotics.html">viral last summer</a> when people seeing the page thought it was a serious work put out by fundamentalists listing the "components of Satan's Spiritual Structure"; this list included yoga, Scientology, Rosicruscianism, Astrology, Tarot cards, Ouija boards, remote viewing, and other activities. Most of the things on the list have been the focus of warnings by fundamentalists as doorways to satanic possession (I got most of the things on the list from Chick tracts and from books by former Chick Publications author Dr. Rebecca Brown), so it didn't surprise me <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/ew-jackson-virginia-lieutenant-governor-yoga-satan-92321.html">that it came out that</a> Virigina Lieutenant Governor candidate E.W. Jackson suggested that yoga could lead one to "serve Satan." This is fundie boilerplate.<br />
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It's true in a way: whenever I'm in a yoga class and hot chicks are doing <a href="http://www.crossfitvirtuosity.com/articles/get-down-with-the-dog/">downward facing dog</a>, I get a demon of lust!Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-48934368835913605392013-04-26T11:35:00.000-07:002014-05-06T08:31:55.602-07:00New Promotional Jack Chick Tract Parody for Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal Story<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Last summer
when CultJam Productions launched Ivy League Exorcist online, we had
to rush the parody Chick tract promotional comic book in time to distribute it
at Comic-Con 2012 in July. The hurried result was <a href="http://www.ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/2012/07/jack-chick-parody-tract-used-to-promote.html">"A Demon-Hunting Veep?"</a> which speculated that a demon-hunter could be picked as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate. The title was a big success with comix and Jack Chick fans
and received attention from <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/doorways-to-demonic-possession-comic-con-2012_n_1687695.html">The Huffington Post </a>and <a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/08/21/list-of-satans-hobbies-was-a.html">Boing Boing</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">The only problem
was that the content of the tract became outdated on August 11, 2012 when Romney picked Paul Ryan as his running mate.
Accordingly, in my spare time, I created a new tract, "Ivy League
Exorcist," that plays upon speculation that Governor Jindal is mulling a
presidential run in 2016. I enhanced the art and added some gags; the new
tract has a more overt satirical message while "A Demon-Hunting
Veep?" played it straight, Chick tract fans will probably appreciate the
additional cameos by characters from Chick tracts. Click on a panel for a larger view. Enjoy. </span><br />
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Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-33749190322836548802013-03-07T07:13:00.002-08:002013-03-07T11:17:45.566-08:00Bobby Jindal Hoist with his own Petard <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s school voucher program has been the butt of jokes <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/photos-evangelical-curricula-louisiana-tax-dollars">when some of the questionable claims from textbooks recently came to light</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recently, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/louisiana-voucher-school-hippies_n_2823510.html?utm_hp_ref=politics">Nick Wing of the Huffington Post reported</a> that a textbook from a Louisiana voucher school teaches that hippies filthy, ragged devotees of rock musicians who “<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">belonged to Eastern religious cults or practiced Satan worship.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was precisely this kind of conflation that led to the satanic scare that caused Jindal and the Christian student groups (InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and Campus Crusade for Christ) to perform the exorcism on Susan in 1990.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the major influences that led to hysteria about the alleged rise of Satanism was a bestselling book that unceremoniously lumped together the activities of the youth movement with devil worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1970, Hal Lindsey wrote The Late Great Planet Earth, a book with apocalyptic end-times themes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the book, Lindsey’s (flimsy) evidence that Satan was marshaling his forces in preparation for The Battle of Armageddon was the fact that many young bohemians were expressing an interest in the occult (e.g., tarot cards and horoscopes) and Eastern mysticism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Although The Late Great Planet Earth is pure schlock, the book became a huge bestseller (over 30 million copies have been sold).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Lindsey's book, a</span>long with other discredited books like Mike Warnke’s The Satan Seller and Michelle Smith’s Michelle Remembers, helped create the satanic scare that festered throughout the 1980’s and certainly influenced the Brown University students who performed an exorcism on Susan when she experienced convulsions and a sudden personality change (for future reference, call an ambulance, for fuck's sake!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s rather amusing that Christianists are repeating the claims that contributed in part to the atmosphere that led to bizarre behavior at Brown University in 1990. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-25069732347711039192013-02-23T10:07:00.000-08:002013-02-23T10:45:29.015-08:00IMDb Page for Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal StoryCheck out <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330536/">the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) page for Ivy League Exorcist: the Bobby Jindal Story</a>. That's http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330536/
Also, check the IMDb pages for the principle filmmakers: director and producer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3213789/?ref_=tt_ov_dr">Mario Glaviano</a>, cinematographer and producer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4090630/">Francesca Stonum</a>,screenwriter and executive producer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3911567/?ref_=tt_ov_wr">Troy Davis</a>, associate producer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0777000/">Mark Schwab</a>, associate producer and actor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4194454/">Michael Rulfs</a>, and cinematographer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5210533/">Sean Meng</a>.
Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-5395902812607892402012-12-20T14:15:00.000-08:002012-12-23T13:14:59.421-08:00New Ivy League Exorcist Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Troy Davis writes: Behold the new official poster for <i>Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal Story</i>. I did the <a href="http://ivyleagueexorcist.blogspot.com/2012/07/movie-poster-for-ivy-league-exorcist.html">the original poster</a>, a hasty job done on MS Paint. We needed a better poster that could be blown up (for use as a prop in CultJam Production's next film) so we enlisted the aid of Bryan Gasaway, a graphic design major at West Liberty University. Great job, Bryan!
The post is on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330536/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">the IMDb page for <i>Ivy League Exorcist</i></a>.Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-23822395329630981472012-11-03T08:35:00.001-07:002012-11-03T09:06:34.172-07:00Public Policy Polling Poll: Most Republicans believe in demonic possession Read about the poll <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/11/02/poll_most_republicans_believe_in_demonic_possession/">in this article by Laura Gottesdiener in Salon.com</a>; the article discusses Bobby Jindal's Brown University exorcism as well as Delaware GOP Senate candidate and alleged former witch Christine O’Donnell.Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855827259237763914.post-24682541180856866762012-08-31T08:29:00.000-07:002012-08-31T08:29:05.995-07:00CultJam Productions is working on a new short filmI just wanted to let fans of <i>Ivy League Exorcist: The Bobby Jindal Story </i>know that we aren't a one-trick pony. We are hard at work creating another short film. More details soon.Les Zazoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124994822093113555noreply@blogger.com0