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• Who remembers shrink-plastic?

  Published: July 24, 2007, 12:22 pm

  Tags: Arts And Crafts, General Fsm News

  I have crafted, using shrink plastic and colored pencils, an image of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to hang from my husband’s rear view mirror. Now he has a reminder of His Great Noodliness wherever he goes. -Jennifer Nice work. I want one. -bobby

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• The Fats: Why There Are No Fat People At Wesleyan

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:25 pm

  Tags: Did You Do It Before You Read About It, Fat People, Liberal Arts Colleges, Sociology, The Fats, Wesleyan

  A few weeks ago, we would've titled this post "Why There Are No Fat People At Oberlin," but a new day has dawned. Anyway! A study came out the other day about fat kids, and guess what? They're less...

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• MUSA Review

  Published: July 24, 2007, 10:49 pm

  Tags: Martial Arts, Korea, Adventure

  MUSA (aka THE WARRIOR) (2001) In China, 1375, the country has been torn in two by the warring Ming and Yuan Dynasties. A large group of diplomats are sent from Korea to China to make peace with the new government. But when the diplomats are charged as spies by the Ming, they are sentenced to exile on a remote island. When the Yuan attacks

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• Daughter Dearest

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:58 am

  Tags: Arts Media, Marriage Family, Trends

  At the New Republic Online, Sacha Zimmerman says that Lindsay Lohan is "allergic to the word 'no.'" I have a theory as to why she -- and others like her -- are "allergic," but, first, let me address those who think that any time one of us writes about a celebrity or pop culture trend we turn The Point into a

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• Suffering Starlets

  Published: July 25, 2007, 3:05 pm

  Tags: Arts Media, Religion Society, Trends

  Pop culture really isn't my beat. I just don't care about the kinds of things that fill the tabloids. And yet, I find the recent troubles of Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton fascinating. Not that I find their behaviors particularly surprising; no, when I say I'm fascinated, I mean I'm fascinated by our responses to their

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• Effortless Perfection

  Published: July 25, 2007, 11:01 am

  Tags: Arts Media, Inspiration, Religion Society, Trends

  The cover of Redbook for July has a picture of Faith Hill and a teaser "Faith and Tim: What's normal about them; what's not." Well, the question is a bit ironic given the fact that one of the things that is not normal about Faith is her cover photo. It's no suprise to me that cover-photos are photo-shopped. What is a bit more unusual

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• But I Just Got a 2-D HDTV!

  Published: July 24, 2007, 7:48 am

  Tags: Arts Media, Technology, Trends

  I've been to Las Vegas twice and have never placed a bet. I have, however, spent a lot of time at the IMAX theater at the Luxor. I love the "3D" movies shown there. Well, the movies aren't that good but there's something about a sea monster in your lap that makes you feel alive. Know what I mean? Well, it looks like that the "at

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• Jane Austen rejected

  Published: July 23, 2007, 1:15 pm

  Tags: Arts Media, Books

  This is all over the news: a writer took Jane Austen's books, turned them into proposals (changing names and places) and sent them into agents and publishers, who all summarily rejected them. (You can download the original article, including the query letter, here.) Actually, it's not as simple a story as that, as Mags at AustenBlog points out.

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• Turning against our bravest 1 percent

  Published: July 23, 2007, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Arts Media, Military

  The blogosphere is in a ferment over three stories published in The New Republic by "Scott Thomas," purportedly an anonymous soldier writing from Iraq, about GI misbehavior in that country. According to those with any knowledge of the military and/or the operation in Iraq, the stories have holes that you could drive a Bradley Fighting

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• Rowling dishes more about the future of Harry Potter characters

  Published: July 26, 2007, 8:02 pm

  Tags: Arts And Media

  The Today show is rolling out the details of its exclusive interview with J. K Rowling. The latest tidbit has her telling a lot more than she did in the book's epilogue. Because some people are slower readers and haven't finished Deathly Hallows, I'll save the details and a link until after the jump. (She's said nothing new about religion yet

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• Since everyone else has a Simpsons post

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:16 pm

  Tags: Arts And Media, Atheists Agnostics And Doubters

  Let me weigh in with a comment on Bruce's. That quote he cites is pretty good evidence that the Simpsons has often taken a fairly sophisticated approach to religion, amongst the slapstick. Homer's worry: "What if we picked the wrong religion? Every week, we're just making God madder and madder!" Thyat's a pretty good refutation to the famous

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• Religion and the Simpsons

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:42 am

  Tags: Arts And Media

  The Simpsons Movie opens Friday. Beliefnet, which seldom misses a chance for a pop-culture tie-in to faith, offers this look at the top religious episodes of the long-running Fox TV series. The list was put together by religion writer Mark I. Pinsky, author of The Gospel According to 'The Simpsons'. My favorite line quoted in here comes from

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• Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter...chat transcript

  Published: July 25, 2007, 5:46 pm

  Tags: Arts And Media, Dmn Stuff

  dallansews.com had a live online chat amongst some of the Arts and Features folks and me and a bunch of reg'lar folks from out in the actual world. Warning: If you want to avoid the spoilers, don't click the link. The transcript is here.

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• Orpheus Chamber Singers announce season

  Published: July 25, 2007, 4:57 pm

  Tags: Arts And Media

  Unlimited TACA funding the arts is our business Texas Commission on the Arts WRR Classical 101.1FM # #

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• From Newsweek, a Q&A with Tony Dungy

  Published: July 25, 2007, 4:32 pm

  Tags: Arts And Media, Celebrities

  We mentioned a couple of weeks ago that Tony Dungy was in town for a men's conference hosted by the Rev. Tony Evans of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship. Dungy, coach of the Super Bowl champions, the Indianapolis Colts, has a new book, Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life (with a foreword by Denzel Washington).

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