Author: Kier
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So Much in the Feed, Just Take It All In
Terribly busy day. Website upgrade issues on the blog here. And the death of one of my all time favorite celebrities, Robin Williams. Sorry, you’re only getting the extended feed tonight…
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The Doctor, The Terminator, The Panic, and The MacGuffin
The first thing I noted this morning as I scrolled through the first screen or so of my Facebook feed was the plethora of Doctor Who posts. I mean, I have a lot of friends who are fans of the good Doctor, so I regularly see a few posts mentioning him every day. But this…
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Reboots, Rumors, Religion, and a Kick Ass Waterslide
Aside from the ongoing discussions about Guardians of the Galaxy, the story today that most caught my attention was a kind of scathing take-down of the currently popular “Prosperity Gospel” movement. From what I can see, there’s nothing “Gospel” related in the prosperity gospel. In fact, it seems like it pretty clearly goes against just about…
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Hot Peppers, Stupid Humans, Culture Clash, and Textual Russian Roulette
Two fascinating culture articles in today’s feed. One about the perception of lowbrow, midbrow, and highbrow cultural norms and another about a “game” called Damage Control that the kids these days seem to be playing. The ideas, ideals, and realities of socioeconomic and cultural class systems fascinate me. How one level looks at the others,…
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Politics, SciFi, Comics, Comedy, and, well, Pretty Much a Little of Everything
I’ve really got get back on track to do posts on Fridays… or any of the times over the weekend that I think “Gee, I should probably post something to my actual blog…” Because by the time Monday night rolls around, I’m usually doing so many other things that I put this off until the…