Author: KB
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His Dark Materials | PowerReligion
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Andrew Jones posted yesterday about the imminent release of the first film of the Philip Pullman trilogy ‘His Dark Materials’. (Why the hell has is been re-named? Durrr…. ) In the post he leans to siding with Matt Barber, who has written that Pullman’s anti-theist stance is a strong theme, and thus Christians should avoid…
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He Who Gets Slapped
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A strange and beautiful weekend. We were down in Bristol, seeing some good friends. In one of those marvellous moments, I found myself taking the complimentary tickets of a multi-Oscar-winning animator to see the World Premier of the new score to the 1920’s classic He Who Gets Slapped. Will Gregory, of Goldfrapp fame, had written…
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Do We Know It’s Christmas? | Santa’s Ghetto
Advent. One of my favourite times of year. A time to wait. To anticipate. Or open cardboard windows and eat bland chocolates. And get pissed at work. Sometimes I wonder if, to bastardize Geldof et al, we know it’s Christmas time at all. Some trickster work to nudge us back in the right direction: paperlesschristmas.org…
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Eels | Quantum Physics | Many Worlds | Meaning
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A quite brilliant piece of TV on BBC 4 tonight. Worth the license fee on its own, Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives traced the journey of Eels front-man Mark Everett uncovering the life of his father, the eminent physicist Hugh Everett III. Everett Snr, in a radical challenge to the Quantum Mechanical orthodoxy of the day,…