I’m sorry for all the sparks recently, but I couldn’t resist this one. Enjoy!

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“Could It Be? Did Hollywood Execs Get The Memo?” speculates on the reason for the number of movies-about-women (which seems to correspond with movies-by-women). I would take issue with her assertion that Mama Mia! or Kit are any great leaps forward for womankind, but I’ve not seen either, so I won’t get into that here.

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I’ve been watching

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Or, When Muslims Attack (with free copies of the Koran!).
Sorry I’ve been AWOL recently, I’m in the process of moving. I now have internet (yay!1!) but now need to unpack all the boxes of stuff. Then, I promise, real posts.

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(overheard between a drunken John & a drunken xJane at last night’s Abney Park concert)
Background: Yesterday, xJane was sitting around, slightly ill, and generally feeling sorry for herself. Whilst innocently watching Emmy consideration DVDs, she received a call from John, who asked if she was busy (she was not) and if she was interested in […]

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By now, many of you will have heard that one of the Vatican’s astronomers has indicated that there might be life on other planets. Even that they might be without sin. Many of my favorite science fiction books involve the intersection of religion and space travel (Dune and Ender’s Game chief among them). But really, […]

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An Atheist’s Prayer is back! I started this podcast with Jana’s help about a year and a half ago, and people had many kind things to say about it. When we stopped producing them, we would receive occasional queries about when the next one would come out.
I’ve made a couple of changes to […]

 An Atheist's Prayer - Episode 06: Download

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I hope you’ve all enjoyed Oj?Æchan‚Äôs Funeral.¬† Publishing it in blog format has been an experiment, and I would appreciate any feedback you have to offer.¬† Should I have published the story in full?¬† Was it weird to read fiction on a blog (which usually has op-ed, links, and personal journal type entries), in a […]

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This post is continued from this one.

My thoughts were interrupted by Christiansen, who was running up the hill towards me.
“The cremation’s done,” he said between breaths. “They’re ready for you.”
I hurried back to the crematorium.
A large stainless steel tray the size of a coffin had been wheeled into a private room on something like an […]

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In Part One, a Mormon missionary finds himself with his contrary companion at his Buddhist grandfather’s wake.
In Part Two, he is tempted to worship idols.
Part Three follows. As his grandpa’s body is consumed in the crematorium, Elder Degraw puzzles over strange past manifestations of the Spirit. This section is almost entirely autobiographical.

On the […]

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