Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor (Post 202505)

That's usually when GD's family has theirs. My family has it on the actual first and second days.

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor (Post 202527)

GD's family does have it on Saturday (sometimes Sunday if there's some reason to move it) in order to accomodate a large (non-religious) family. They also cut out most of the reading.

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor (Post 202527)

No, my parents do have a Seder for the first two nights, and we go to whichever is more convenient for us. GD's family does have it on Saturday (sometimes Sunday if there's some reason to move it) in order to accomodate a large (non-religious) family.

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser (Post 202529)

Well, we just hope to make the list for next year's Seder extravaganza. Our last experience is one that we still talk about and remember most fondly. :)

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 202549)

G.C. wants me to start a new thread for it, but I love the derail extravaganza.


No worries, though. Passover will soon be over. And the next casa de mousepod movie night thread detail won't happen till 4th of July!

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 202335)

Ooooh, I want a double feature of The Ten Commandments and Prince of Egypt!


My unconventional seder features clips from both, btw. And though my family kept Kosher for Passover (but not regularly Kosher) when I was growing up, I have eschewed that restriction. So we drink palatable wine (and lots of it ... 4 glasses per person are proscribed!!). And we feast on foods that are not necessarily Kosher for Passover.

We've combined the 2 halves of the seder into one long, pre-feast segment ... because we've found over the years that no one's really into more seder after a lot of wine and tons of food.

Oh, and I've designed and manufactured a custom Haggadah (the guidebook, if you will, to the seder) that's, if I do say so myself, a work of art - with imagery taken from various Haggadahs I've liked, but mostly from a 14th Century Manuscript of surpassing gorgeousness.

Oh, and as I said, we pepper our seder with film clips from The Ten Commandments and The Prince of Egypt. To my mind, the purpose of the seder is to communicate the story of to new and succeeding generations ... and I feel video is a recently-concocted way to fulfill that mandate for future humanity.

As such, our seder is a multi-media folk traditional extravaganza of music and joy and carousing and feasting. It's wonderful. And yikes, Gemini Cricket practically talked me into throwing one together for this year.


:cheers: Anyone interested???







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Originally Posted by Chernabog (Post 202578)

I can think of a few things to say in this thread, and all of them would antagonize Strangler Lewis, so I'll just be quiet ;)