Double Reading

I just finished watching the finale episode of Caprica (the spin-off/prequel to Battlestar Galactica) and my mind is whirling from it a bit. This show, like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles finds itself in the interesting position of existing within and challenging an extremely loved franchise. I’m fairly certain that with both Battlestar Galactica and [...]

During the rescue of the Chilean miners, I heard/read lots of people saying that they were praying for the miners. And once all 33 of the miners were rescued, people said, “Thank God!” followed by: “It’s a miracle that they made it out.” The president of Chile even said: What started as a tragedy is [...]

While I absolutely love Richard Dawkins and especially love Christopher Hitchens, I’m not sure whether I think of their recent movement to arrest the pope is brilliant or stupid. Following the latest news about the pope’s negligence surrounding abuse victims, Hitchens has been especially vocal. I especially loved him on fellow atheist Bill Maher’s show, [...]

One of the reasons I love the fact that I’ve kept this blog going for over 4 years now is that I can go back and read things I wrote before and see how my thoughts/perspective have changed. A very recent example: I re-watched the movie A Hole In My Heart — which I still [...]

Last month’s Details magazine had a an article called “The Greatest Virginity Story Ever Told.” The story is about a 21-year-old guy with down syndrome who is a virgin and goes to Las Vegas to get laid. What struck me, of course, was this guy’s tendancy to objectfy women by comparing them to food. Some [...]

I’m watch an episode of The Universe about parallel universes and it’s got me doing some thinking… First, the thing I find most fascinating and difficult to work out in my head is the idea that for everything that happens there is another universe in which something else happened. For example, according to this idea, [...]

I know this is kind of cheeky, but this morning on Dr. Laura a mother called in worried about her child’s recent obsession with death (e.g. “Mommy you’re going to die before me and I’m going to die before my little brother”). Dr. Laura instructed the woman to tell her child that death is what [...]

Last summer Slate had a nice piece about the “Afronaut Invasion.” I.e. hip-hop music that was obsessed with outer space and sci-fi stuff. I gotta say, that the more electro and spacey crazy aspects of hip-hop are certainly my favorites. The first hip-hop album I really loved was Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive (which [...]

Jobie and I rewatched Vanilla Sky tonight. I haven’t watched this movie for well over a year. There was a time back in 2003 when I was obsessed with the movie and watched it over and over again. During that time I posted a few things to my old blog “Out of Control.” Here are [...]

I just saw that YouTube Bans Videos That Incite Violence based on criticism from stupid Joe Lieberman (who is pretty censorship-happy, if you ask me). Lieberman claims that al-Qadea can use YouTube to recuit new members. But what about Christian videos on YouTube that incite violence? I’m sure there are videos on YouTube created by [...]