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Got self?
01.07.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Got self?If we are simultaneously natural and manufactured (and also self-naturalizing and self-manufacturing)–as the cyborg writers allege–then it is helpful to begin speaking on something we might call “selfcraft.” “Selfcraft” has a number of advantages. It includes within it the traditional spiritual disciplines, allowing us to speak of such common spiritual practices as prayer, confession, lectio […]
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Which is worse?
01.07.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Which is worse?US-led global imperialism or corporation-led global corporation feudalism? The first, a new pax americana, seems the aim of the current Bush administration, and its shape seems fairly obvious: US unilateralism on the way to US hegemony. But the feudal option is more ambiguous as of yet. The basic ingredients are a collection of fiefs–in our […]
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Jesus was a pothead?
01.06.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Jesus was a pothead?The Guardian reports that a mary jane fan magazine thinks Jesus used pot-laced annointing oil. As one Plastic submitter puts it, “Other possible evidence not cited in the studies, is a tendacy to tell long rambling stories with no apparent point, a marked aversion to paid employment and donkey riding.” Long live hippy Jesus!
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I want Pat Robertson in a cage in Cuba!
01.06.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on I want Pat Robertson in a cage in Cuba!Strange bedfellows, indeed. Tom Tomorrow thinks CBN’s Pat Robertson might be in bed with Al Qaeda. Now who was he blaming 9/11 on a couple of years ago..?
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Gollum, gollum
01.05.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Gollum, gollumEssay idea on The Two Towers: “The effect of small cruelties (and graces) on the subject in moral transition.” The effect of Frodo’s kindness upon Smeagol/Gollum. Sam’s self-fulfilling prophecy that Gollum/Smeagol is “all deceit and lies.” How Frodo’s decision to help Boromir capture Smeagol provides a re-entry point for Gollum. Smeagol’s siding with Gollum from […]
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So that’s who does that song. . .
01.04.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on So that’s who does that song. . .Wish you knew who did that song on that one VW commercial? It’s your lucky day. (And the music for the New Beetle convertible is a remix of ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky.)
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