I Kissed a Girl (& I Liked It) is the title of the “#1 Pop Hit” of the summer. I even heard it on the radio the other day (although not before I heard the article).
This hits on something I’d been thinking of bringing up around here: the fact that female-on-female, shall we call it […]

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Pure liquid awesome. I really have nothing else to say about it. Lyrics are here.

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I was listening to this the other day while packing and it made me cry (as it always does). If anything could make me a pacifist, it would be this song: Don McLean’s the Grave

This line, particularly:
When the wars of our nation did beckon,
A man barely twenty did answer the calling.
Proud of the trust […]

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I’ve been debating about sharing this link for the past week.  It has nothing to do with religion or feminism or science fiction (though I’m sure if we worked hard enough we could make some kind of connection), but it is simultaneously the (hermaphroditic) Queen and King of the Internet Mashup,
If you haven’t seen this […]

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I grew up listening to music that was not what is generally considered age-appropriate. (Guy Lombardo, Tom Lehrer, Peter Paul & Mary, for example.) Jimmy Buffett was one of them. This song always makes me think of heaven. Not my heaven, perhaps, but it’s definitely his heaven. And it gets me every time I listen […]

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(Hello, this is Zach Alexander — you may have read my Leaving the Garden post, and this is the first of a few guest articles I’m posting while John is otherwise engaged.)

“The stuff that really brings people together, and makes us happy to live together, originates from a caring and thoughtful mind that’s been exposed […]

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Smoke and Narcolepsy, by Ben Folds Five
Here I Stand and Face the Rain, A-Ha
You Turn the Screws, Cake
Big-Eyed Fish and Bartender, Dave Matthews
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Neko Case
Invisible Sun and Synchronicity II, Police
Karma Police, Radiohead
Jumper, Third Eye Blind
The Smiths (several songs)

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You’d never think that the Beastie Boys, of all groups, could produce thoughtful, meditative/religious tunes.  This one is god-free, but does pitch some supernatural Buddhist ideas:

I love to blast this and focus exclusively on the deep bass chanting.
The following song is all about doubt and searching.  The imagery is pretty generic, so you can just […]

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Sisters and brothers and everyone in between, welcome to the Church of John!  [insert organ riff] One of the great blessing of being a skeptic is that you can find your scripture anywhere. Emily Dickinson, Bad Religion, William Gibson and Joss Whedon are my prophets. When I was lost in the darkness […]

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For you French Jonathan Coulton fans out there: A translation en français of that cubicle zombie classic, Re: Your Brains. (Also good for Francophone zombies.)
I’m passing you on to the referring site instead of providing a direct link to the song–for therein is the eye candy, if you’re xJane (or someone with similar […]

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