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OMG, go watch Kings, now.

April 7th, 2009 · by xJane · 2 Comments

It’s got it all: atheism, spirituality, god, scifi, and good music!! Hulu’s got the first four eps up right now (and it doesn’t keep them forever), so go catch up. It’s too smart and too well written to stay on the air for long.
It’s the story of Kings David and Saul transposed into a country [...]

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In Which I Reveal What a Big Geek I am.

November 21st, 2008 · by John · 7 Comments

First of all, it was revealed recently that Barack Obama has a collection of Spider Man and Conan comics.  Do you hear that? OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT READS MARVEL!!1!  Bush strikes me as a Superman guy. (Green Party types read Vertigo and Maus and maybe Love and Rockets)
So when Madeleine Brand (who I love!) of NPR’s [...]

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a Jihad for Love

September 15th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

This is the trailer for a new movie, a Jihad for Love. I thought it was apropos given Prop 8’s drawing ever nearer. It is a story about the struggle of gay Muslims. I have added it to my Netflix queue, but if it comes out in the greater LA area, I’ll prolly get a [...]

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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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Zombie Jesus

August 28th, 2008 · by xJane · 5 Comments

My cousin does a lot of babysitting. She recently babysat a kid who was trying to tell her about a friend’s imaginary friend, Genius, who was a reverse zombie: he died but then, instead of wanting to eat your brains, he wants us to eat his. It took my (Catholic) cousin a long time to [...]

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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.
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Spark: Women in the Box Office

July 20th, 2008 · by xJane · 2 Comments

“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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