I’ve recently been listening to Atheists Talk (iTunes link), spurred in that direction by PZMyers, who was interviewed by them recently. And then I stuck around to hear their next show, in which they interviewed two Christians.
While it was interesting to listen to them sputter when unable to answer questions, and relieving that the conversation […]
Entries Tagged as 'Media and Design'
on Defining “Christian”
August 7th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment
Tags: Atheism · Belief · Christianity · Dialog · Media and Design · Religion · Skeptic
Sunday Morning Video Lineup
August 3rd, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments
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 a […]
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
Spark: Target Women
June 19th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments
Whoever invented this is inspired! Here they are on politics.
Tags: Activism · Current Events · Feminism · Gender · Links · Media and Design · News · Politics · Society · Women
Brothers & Sisters
April 29th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments
I went to “A Conversation with Brothers & Sisters” last night, which was a panel of the stars of the show & some of the writers and producers. It is one of my favorite shows, mostly because of what one of the writers said, “Everyone sees their family in the characters,” but also because of […]
Tags: Dialog · Fantasy · Feminism · Gender · Media and Design · Personal
I like to eat the peanut butter first
April 23rd, 2008 · by xJane · 7 Comments
Do you remember those “there’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s” ads? (My favorite one was Dracula, from whom I stole the title of this post.) When I allowed myself to eat them, Skittles were my absolute favorite candy. I would open the package and neurotically sort them into colors; I would then eat […]
Tags: Atheism · Media and Design
Spark: Gender in Media
April 16th, 2008 · by xJane · 5 Comments
USC just sponsored a study of gender in movies, animation, and television, coming up with some pretty stark results: essentially, although the number of female characters has increased, most are still locked into gendered activities and are not often main characters. This can be seen quite clearly in Horton Hears a Who: there are many […]
Tags: Feminism · Gender · Links · Media and Design · Movie Reviews · Politics · Spark
Sexist Movies
March 12th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment
Proving that Hollywood is not the hot-bed of liberalism that many people would like to think it is, here is one woman’s list of the most misogynistic movies of the 21st century.
Tags: Current Events · Feminism · Gender · Links · Media and Design · Movie Reviews · Pop Culture · Women
We’ve Started Something
February 16th, 2008 · by xJane · 5 Comments
First, there was John’s dabbling in mapping lolCats onto traditional religious images. Then, the folks over at Cracked gave us some awesome lolReligion interspersed in their 10 Things Christians and Atheists Can Agree On (scroll down for the lolDog in need of a Catholic exorcism). But it didn’t stop there, oh no! Someone linked John […]
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On Ron Paul & Elections
February 6th, 2008 · by xJane · 6 Comments
Let me start by saying that, before I started doing vague research for this, I knew next to nothing about Ron Paul. I knew that he has two first names. I was aware that he was a Republican, but had no idea what kind. I was not aware of his race, although I could guess […]
Tags: Current Events · Media and Design · Politics · Pop Culture
OC Pilgrimage, Station 10: Bat Mitvah at University Synagogue in Irvine
January 13th, 2008 · by John · 1 Comment
After a long hiatus, I am starting the popular OC Pilgrimage series back up. In these posts, I reflect on my visits to religious meetings and spiritual sites in Southern California from my perspective as an atheist and someone who is genuinely curious about religion. In 2008, I am going to try to […]
Tags: Judaism · Media and Design · OC Pilgrimage · Photos
