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Music Monday: It Must Be the Sign on My Head

February 2nd, 2009 · by xJane · 3 Comments

(no, not that one) “That says, ‘oh, Love Me Dead!’” or, A Feminist Critique of Ludo’s “Love Me Dead” Today’s music brought to you courtesy of DH *ahem* who picked it up from a House commercial. Which is funny, since I watch TV & he doesn’t and the song totally escaped my notice. I’ve had [...]

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Tags: Art · Creativity. · Death · Feminism · Folklore · Gender · Music · Music Monday · Sexuality · Undead · Video · Web 2.0 · Women

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

Spark: The A-B-Cs of SciFi

October 9th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

Here. A little heavy on the Star Trek and Star Wars, but still awesome. And honestly, what else is Q for but…Q?

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Tags: Art · Fiction · Humanity · Humor · Links · Pop Culture · Reason · Science Fiction and Fantasy · Spark · Undead

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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Tags: Atheism · Christianity · Death · Gods · Humor · Movies/Hollywood · Religion · Ritual · Satire · Undead

Spark: Training

July 22nd, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

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

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Tags: Art · Atheism · Belief · Bible · Christianity · Comics · Creativity. · Fiction · Getting over Religion · Gods · Humor · Pop Culture · Religion · Satire · Skeptic · Spiritual Progressives · Spirituality · Undead

Disaster Preparedness

May 16th, 2008 · by xJane · 2 Comments

My sister, the geophysicist, was telling me today about the Southern California ShakeOut, an event this November 12th at 10AM when everyone is being asked to stop & consider what would happen if there was a 7.4 earthquake on the San Andreas. She went to a seminar where different representatives of the event spoke about [...]

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Tags: Current Events · Death · Education · Nature · Pop Culture · Undead

Green Thoughts for Today

May 12th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

This is almost a Spark post, however I’ve got two from over at Groovy Green. Why Higher Gas Prices Should Make You Smile, at least if you believe that the only way we’re going to get out of this crisis is by switching to “alternative” (to fossil fuels) forms of energy. I have often said [...]

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Tags: Activism · Environment · Spark · Undead

Ear and Eye Candy

December 3rd, 2007 · by John · 3 Comments

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 tastes). [...]

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Tags: Music · Science Fiction and Fantasy · Undead