1 Miss Velma's Bicentennial extravaganza, CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA, is the most amazing piece of video I've ever seen. Existing at the low-budget end of Aimee Semple McPherson's LA-based Christian spectacle tradition, she's been putting on glitter-encrusted performances for decades. In this, her masterwork, all manner of poetry, song, and theatrics is enacted on tinsel-draped sets. In the crowning segment, Miss Velma does a Native American dance in a red, white, and blue headdress, shoots out balloons at forty paces with a pistol, and plays a carol on a penorgan. A one-woman variety show for Jesus.
2 It's hard to imagine a more godforsaken place than Slab City, California, at the southern end of the festering Salton Sea. Yet this is home to SALVATION MOUNTAIN and its creator, Leonard Knight, who lives in his ancient hand-decorated …
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