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Music Monday: Christopher Walken is awesome

November 10th, 2008 · by xJane · 7 Comments

This is from years ago but truly, absolutely worth it: Lyrics (and, if you follow that link, here’s the final frame)

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Tags: Art · Best · Creativity. · Fantasy · Media and Design · Music · Music Monday · Pacifism · Peace; conflict resolution. · Pop Culture · Video

If you could be anything you wanted…

October 23rd, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

One of the more popular genre of games right about now is a cross between full RPG and general story game. The most highly anticipated was Fable, where you start out as a young boy and grow into a hero…or a villain. And this was the major selling point: a slightly more sophisticated Choose Your [...]

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Tags: Art · Consumerism · Ethics · Fantasy · Fiction · Gadgets · Media and Design · Musings · SF · Society

Music Monday: Still Alive

October 13th, 2008 · by xJane · 6 Comments

I’ve held off for as long as I could bear to, but it is now time to release this upon the MoF community. From the guy who brought us the classic office zombie song, Re: Your Brains and the classy May Day song, First of May, comes the geek classic Still Alive, the end-credits song [...]

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Tags: Art · Death · Ethics · Fantasy · Fiction · Folklore · Gods · Humanity · Links · Media and Design · Meme · Music · Music Monday · Musings · Pop Culture · Science · Science Fiction and Fantasy · Technology · Undead · Video · Web 2.0

Bit Lit Crit

October 5th, 2008 · by xJane · 4 Comments

That would be “Bitchy Literary Criticism”. John & I were having a conversation about good books and the concept of “strong female characters”, as a reason I might want to explore the Sabriel series. My response was that I had been recommended Miyazaki’s manga/movies for the same reason, that the author writes “strong female characters”, [...]

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Tags: Fantasy · Feminism · Fiction · Gender · Musings · Personal · Science Fiction and Fantasy · Society · Women · Writing

Book Meme!

October 2nd, 2008 · by xJane · 5 Comments

I just read this, so I didn’t really get tagged, but I hereby tag: John, G, wren, Brian (who I can’t link to), & Cobwebs. Feel free to link to your own (whether I tagged you or not) in the comments 1. One book that made you laugh: I, Lucifer, by Glen Duncan. DH and [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Fantasy · Fiction · Folklore · Humor · Meme · Personal · Science Fiction and Fantasy · Writing

Spark: from the “heh” files

September 16th, 2008 · by xJane · 10 Comments

I know I’m not the only one to whom this has occurred before, but the Pope thinks secularists are too materialistic (unlike the Church, of course). Some great comments on this over at Pharyngula.

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Tags: Art · Atheism · Belief · Charities · Christianity · Church and State · Classic · Consumerism · Current Events · Doubt · Ethics · Fantasy · Getting over Religion · Justice · Politics · Religion · Simplicity · Skeptic · Society · Spark

In which Twitter validates my grade-school crush

September 3rd, 2008 · by xJane · 6 Comments

In an effort to give MoF readers a deeper insight to our souls, John has put various widgets on the borders of this page: from GoodReads and the ever-present blogroll to his Twitter stream. I like that he called it “Mind on Twitter”, since that essentially defines my thoughts when he invited me to twit: [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Fantasy · Movies/Hollywood · Pop Culture · Web 2.0

ERA

August 22nd, 2008 · by xJane · 4 Comments

I am obviously not an innocent bystander to the ERA debate, but I am impressed by how few people know about it. Yesterday, I met a professor who, in giving us a brief biography, included the fact that she argued for “the original Equal Rights Amendment, which most of you have probably never heard of”. [...]

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Tags: Activism · Ethics · Fantasy · Feminism · Gay Rights and Queer Issues · Gender · Law · Personal · Politics · Sexuality · Women

Spark: Gendered Robots

August 21st, 2008 · by xJane · 6 Comments

I haven’t yet seen WALL•E, but here is an article I found interesting discussing the genders of the two main robots. It is an interesting discussion of the perceived genders we apply to the characters based on our cultural assumptions. It is also interesting, however, how we can work beyond them. hat tip

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Tags: Art · Fantasy · Feminism · Fiction · Gay Rights and Queer Issues · Gender · Links · Media and Design · Movie Reviews · Movies/Hollywood · Musings · Pop Culture · Sexuality · Spark

Sunday Morning Video Lineup

August 3rd, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

A vid take on MoF’s Sparks: First up, Stuart Shepard, who I’d not heard of before today but is apparently a member of Focus on the Family’s activism arm, is encouraging everyone to encourage his God to rain on Obama’s acceptance speech. Which seems to me to be incredibly petty: pray for peace? pray for [...]

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Tags: Activism · Art · Best · Christianity · Church and State · Classic · Creativity. · Current Events · Environment · Fantasy · Fiction · Gods · Humor · Media and Design · Meditation & Prayer · Nature · Politics · Pop Culture · Spark · Video