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Sunday Bun Book Ships Out Today!
Monday, December 19, 2016 8:35
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Politics, Prophecy & the Supernatural Shipping The Bun on TODAY! www.lamarzulli.net
Introduction
This book is called The Sunday Go-to-Meeting Bun, named after my blog, birthed nearly a decade ago; it is also known as, The Sunday Bun, or The Bun, interchangeably. Some of you might know where I got the name, but I’m going to assume a vast majority of you have no idea where it came from and explain.
Years ago, in the neighborhood of 1978, I was at a concert at the Hollywood Bowl. There were two acts. The headliner was Steve Martin and he was hilarious. The opening act was The Blues Brothers, featuring Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi, not to mention an amazing group of studio musicians who had come on board to be part of the group.
I was seated in the front row of the VIP section, as the woman I was dating at the time had connections—she was an aspiring actress.
Martin was incredible. I still break out in laughter when I think about him wearing the arrow-through-the head-hat; it was so sophomoric and yet so funny.
The Blues Brothers took the stage, and Belushi cartwheeled the length of the stage and back again before landing in front of his microphone. Ackroyd carried the mysterious black brief case and positioned himself next to Belushi.
The band was tight; even though the songs were cover tunes, they were played really well.
About half way through the concert, Belushi handed the lead singing over to Ackroyd who sang a song that has to do with the name of the book: The name of the song is “Rubber Biscuit.” This classic, nonsensical doo-wop song was originally recorded by The Chips in 1956. There’s a clip from around 1978 preserved on YouTube of The Blues Brothers performing this song, and I have provided a link to it so you can see it for yourself. Here are the lyrics:
Rubber Biscuit
By: Charles Johnson and Adam R Levy
Bow bow bow… Um, do that again Bow bow bow…
Have you ever heard of a wish sandwich? A wish sandwich is the kind of a sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you, hee hee hee, wish you had some meat
Bow bow bow…
Um, the other day I had a ricochet biscuit A ricochet biscuit is the kind of a biscuit that’s supposed to bounce back to the wall into your mouth If it don’t bounce back, you go hungry!
Bow bow bow…
Umm, umm, umm, the other day I had a cool water sandwich
and a Sunday go-to-meetin’ bun Bow bow bow…
Hee hee hee hee… What do ya want for nothing, a rubber biscuit? Bow bow bow…
As you can see, it’s a silly song but, in my opinion, very entertaining.
So, Ackroyd is singing the song and comes to the part where he says: …and a Sunday go-to-meeting bun! Bow, bow, bow…
This phrase, go-to-meeting, which originated in the 1780s, hails back to an- other era and perhaps a simpler way of life where we didn’t think about or know words like Jihad, Terrorists, suicide bombings, TSA pat-downs, transgender bath-rooms, Snowflakes, gay marriage, abortion on demand, partial birth abortion, late-term abortion, and the selling of body parts by Planned Parenthood. The term politically correct hadn’t been invented yet.
However, the country was still racially divided as the south was still fighting the civil war and the North was segregated.
When The Chips recorded the song in 1956, Billy Graham packed venues with his crusades and most people said Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays. We faced a cold war with the Russians that threatened to destroy all life on this planet with nuclear weapons. Vietnam was heating up as well as what would become the United States hegemony, with more than eight hundred military bases around the world.
I never forgot the words to the song, and when I married Peggy, my wifey of thirty-two years and counting, I would sing it out loud in the house. She always cracks up when I sing it and joins in the bow-bow-bow part.
However, The Sunday Go-to-Meeting Bun is more than a silly lyric from an old song: It’s food for our souls. The Bun, like a light breakfast of a donut and a cup of coffee, was meant to be a spiritual snack, not a full meal, although there are some Buns that are, in my opinion, a steak dinner.
I tried to keep them short and pithy and most of them are around six hun- dred words or so.
The Lord gives me a lot of them when I’m running, which I do at least three or four times a week. When I get back to the car, I write them down on my notes so I won’t forget them, then Saturday night or Sunday morning, I create The Sunday Bun and post it on the blog.
The topics covered in The Bun are wide-ranging, and this book, which is a compilation of the blog entries from 2013 and 2014, is meant to be read slowly— there is a lot to think about and to “feast” on in these pages—so don’t stuff yourself! At the end of the book, I’ve also included my testimony.
I hope this book draws you closer to Jesus: It’s all about Him. No matter where you are in your walk with Him, know that He loves you and is keeper of your soul.
For nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus – Romans 8:39
L. A. Marzulli Fall, 2016
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