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A bemused response to some apparently pretty serious factual errors in the discussion by Jeff Sharlet, in his book on "the Family," of the origins of the Steve McQueen movie, "The Blob."

Tags: film, popular_culture, religion, christianity, evangelicalism, blogclip, criticism, history on 2008-11-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Basically follows the precedent set by Hofstadter.

Tags: popular_culture, interview, intelligence, politics, political_culture, bad_news on 2008-08-17 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: television, popular_culture, religion, !toread, !towatch, video, sci-fi, fiction on 2008-08-07 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromio9.com

Tags: news, popular_culture, children, literature, art, interview on 2008-08-01 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: religion, contemporary, history, popular, popular_culture, interview, books on 2008-07-24 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: film, reviews, popular_culture, weather, lists, cool on 2008-07-10 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Christianity Today interviews the writer of WALL•E (2008) about the connection between his religious beliefs and his movies. It's not exactly a searching interview, but it's an interesting read.

Tags: religion, christianity, film, contemporary, interview, popular_culture on 2008-07-07 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Several folks have already clipped Garfield Minus Garfield (http://snipr.com/22bo5). Here's a review of the site from Mother Jones's "Riff Blog" -- I can't tell how tongue-in-cheek it is. It's great though.

Tags: art, comics, commentary, consumerism, cool, del.icio.us_import, popular_culture, review on 2008-03-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Another Žižek essay, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real," from 2001. Also on my reading list. Looks more closely at the images of violence and devastation and their role in the popular, post-9/11 imagination.

Tags: !toread, 9-11, commentary, criticism, del.icio.us_import, film, politics, popular_culture, psychology, violence on 2008-01-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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This is Žižek's famous 1999 essay, "The Two Sides of Perversion." I'm clipping it because I intend to read it; the bits I've looked at are very good.

Tags: !toread, commentary, del.icio.us_import, film, popular_culture, post:tumblr, postmodernism, psychology, review on 2008-01-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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This is actually a serious, reflective, and perceptive essay on the Sopranos. It's worth a read.

Tags: commentary, del.icio.us_import, popular_culture, psychology, review, television, violence on 2008-01-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Perceptive comments from religion-and-journalism blogger Terry Mattingly (http://GetReligion.org) on the religious significance of Oprah Winfrey. From January 2007.

Tags: christianity, del.icio.us_import, evangelicalism, gender, journalism, media, popular_culture, religion, television on 2008-01-13 -All Annotations (0) -About

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According to author Judith Warner, a new book of essays on the TV series "24" shows how policymakers and military officials have been taking cues from Hollywood on how to do their jobs. Not only chilling, but surreal to boot.

Tags: books, commentary, del.icio.us_import, gwot, media, military, popular_culture, television, violence on 2007-12-30 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The evangelical magazine CT's reflections on the role of Oprah Winfrey as an icon of postmodern American spirituality, for good or for ill.

Tags: christianity, commentary, del.icio.us_import, media, popular_culture, religion on 2007-12-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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A JAMA study finds that YouTube videos critical of the official immunization program, or especially those that support the notion that vaccinations cause autism, tend to get more views and higher ratings. Videos with good science, on the other hand, get ignored.

Tags: cyberculture, popular_culture, science, video, web on 2007-12-09 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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A remarkably high percentage of Americans believe in ghosts, ESP, and witchcraft.

Tags: death, del.icio.us_import, popular_culture, post:tumblr, religion, sbnr, spirituality on 2007-10-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Some back-and-forth debate on the question of whether and how scientists ought to "frame" their work when it has public-policy implications. By "framing," the authors mean "present in such a way as to show people why they ought to notice and care about it

Tags: blogclip, del.icio.us_import, politics, popular_culture, religion, science on 2007-09-13 -All Annotations (0) -About

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An interview with the man behind the film version of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." I never knew the movie was funded by the Quaker Oats Co. as part of a product tie-in that never materialized. Stuart describes such arcana as the difficulties of

Tags: del.icio.us_import, film, interview, popular_culture, post:facebook(clip), post:tumblr on 2007-09-04 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Each year, Beloit publishes its "mindset list": things incoming freshmen can't remember or have always known that blow their professors' minds! (Examples: there's never been a Berlin Wall; Fox has always been a major network.) Here's this year's.

Tags: del.icio.us_import, funny, history, popular_culture, post:facebook(clip), teaching on 2007-08-30 and saved by14 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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A cartoonist calling herself "Puppeteer" drew this amusing catalogue of the varieties of hijab she encounters walking to work each day in Damascus.

Tags: blogclip, clothing, del.icio.us_import, gender, islam, middle_east, nbrrrb, popular_culture, religion, syria on 2007-08-16 -All Annotations (0) -About

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