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“Acoustimetallus Plectrus” by Ewan Dobson. His album Ewan Dobson III is available today. Your Thoughts?
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Isn’t She Adorable?
January 15th, 2012 
Daniel Fincke Her name is Bramble: (Image ©2012 ~missmonster. Reprinted with permission.) Miss Monster sells her here, and describes her thusly: This is my friend Bramble. She’s a little monster but is super sweet and curious. Bramble loves Altoids and coffee. This doll is one of a kind and handmade. Her face/claws/horns are cast in plastic, hand painted and [...]
You Know I Usually Hate Wes Anderson Movies…
January 12th, 2012 Daniel Fincke …and this trailer is so Wes Andersony (Slate nicely breaks down how) that at first it struck me like he was descending into self-parody. But by the end I felt like I had just watched a charming two minute movie. Watching the actual full length film might spoil the charm. I’ll have to think over [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Film, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Parody 
Tags: Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, Wes Anderson's Spider-Man 
3 Comments »Camels With Hammers Insomniac Theater: Songs from Synecdoche, New York
January 12th, 2012 Daniel Fincke From the Synecdoche New York soundtrack: Your Thoughts?
Camels With Hammers Insomniac Theater: Low Anthem
January 12th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Who can heed the words of Charlie Darwin? Heed the words of Danny Fincke: if you get the chance to see these guys live, don’t miss them. Their albums are Oh My God Charlie Darwin and Smart Flesh Your Thoughts?
Camels With Hammers Insomniac Theater: Rural Alberta Advantage’s “In The Summertime”
January 12th, 2012 Daniel Fincke As I do the overnight leg of my blogathon I am suddenly nostalgic for the overnights I used to work in the rec room at Grove City when I was an undergrad. I used to love VH1′s “Insomniac Theater”. So for this and the next post, I’m going to do a little Insomniac Theater and [...]
More Encouragement of the Unabashed Desire for Self-Expression, Love, and Fame
January 11th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Having earlier today in my all day blogathon celebrated and analyzed Kermit the Frog’s unapologetic fame seeking, I thought it would be fitting to post one of my very favorite songs, as it is on the same theme and performed by artists with whom I generally identify much like I identify with Kermit: Your Thoughts?
I’m a Muppet of a Man, I’m a Very Manly Muppet
January 11th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Life’s like a movie, make your ending, keep believing, keep pretending… As Tyler Cowen was talking about in the last post, humans are inexorably drawn to stories. I even like to think of every sentence as a story. It stars a subject which verbs something. And in my childhood there were two stories that loomed [...]
Ingrid Michaelson’s “Ghost”
January 11th, 2012 Daniel Fincke I love when cool new stuff comes out on my birthday. This January it’s going to be Ingrid Michaelson’s Human Again. I love her earlier albums, especially Girls & Boys. She is admittedly prone to being a little too twee and precious at times, but at her best she is has a real way with [...]
Tegan and Sara Pose With Black Eyes—Is It Wise?
January 4th, 2012 Daniel Fincke I love Tegan and Sara immensely. I have tens of thousands of songs on my i-pod, and yet will play their songs on repeat for whole days. Sometimes I will play a single one of their songs on repeat for a half hour straight. I go so far as to consider The Con my single [...]
John Lennon Did Not Imagine That “All Religion Is True”
January 1st, 2012 Daniel Fincke So Cee-lo Green sings “Imagine” before the ball drop and, as has been done before, the lyrics are appallingly sanitized, changing “no religion too” to “all religion is true”. It’s sheer cowardly pandering bullshit. If you can’t respect the ideas of the song then just don’t sing the song. Leave it alone. Don’t twist it to [...]
Did NYU Fire a Professor for Giving James Franco a D?
December 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Guardian: A professor who was fired by New York University has filed a lawsuit claiming he was dismissed for giving celebrity student James Franco a D grade for poor attendance. Dr José Angel Santana, who taught as an assistant arts professor on the actor’s graduate film course, says that Franco – who supplements his acting career [...]
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December 20th, 2011 Daniel Fincke for Christopher Hitchens, by Helen Sotriadis of Too Many Tribbles. ©2011 helen sotiriadis. View the photo “in the dark”. More of her photos inspired by Christopher Hitchens are here. See a video slideshow of more of her photos here.
The Case Against Literature As Moral Education
December 18th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The other day, Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, eviscerated Christopher Hitchens over two morally dubious comments he made. Robin concluded from them that, contrary to his reputation, Hitchens was not at all an internationalist but rather “a narcissist, the most provincial spirit of all”. Robin ended his post quoting [...]
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December 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke via Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comic Books, Comic Books, Comic Books, Film, Film, Unintentional Comedy, Unintentional Comedy Tags: Autograph Seekers, Batman 1989, Funny Pictures, Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson, Jack Nicholson vs. Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson's Joker vs. Heath Ledger's Joker, The Dark Knight, The Joker 4 Comments »Shelley Segal’s “An Atheist Album” Is Very Good
November 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Remember this catchy, defiantly anti-religious song we brought to your attention in October? Well now Shelley Segal’s An Atheist Album is available for downlaod and I have taken a listen to it and I am extremely pleased with it and can totally recommend it if you like the video above at all. I am always [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Music Reviews, Music Reviews 7 Comments »Cartoon Eye Balls Make Everything More Fun
November 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Pareidolia anyone? From Timm Schneider’s art project They Live. See more. Via Laughing Squid (no relation to PZ. That I know of.) Photo by Amanda Moulson of Turnstyle News Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Novelties, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Art From Everyday Objects, Cartoon Eye Balls, Cookie Monster 1 Comment »Arnold Schwarzenegger Explains Total Recall For Us
November 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Rather hilariously, Arnold seems to think the point of a DVD commentary is to narrate the film for the viewers: Less hilariously, he was elected governor of California. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Film, Film, Hilarious, Unintentional Comedy, Unintentional Comedy Tags: Total Recall 4 Comments »What It’s Like To Be A Blogger
November 20th, 2011 Daniel Fincke In this video, the blogger is played by the legendary Rick Moranis and the blog is played by a singing plant. The infuriating evil people one feeds to one’s blog are played by Steve Martin: (I was obsessed with this movie in 4th Grade. It remains one of my very favorites.) Your Thoughts?
L. Dicaprio
November 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Oscar season has begun: L. DiCaprio (J. Edgar Parody) – watch more funny videos Your Thoughts?
“Action Philosophers” Comic Books
October 31st, 2011 Daniel Fincke I have no idea if these are any good philosophically, so read at your own risk, but I figured it was worth noting that comic books trying to introduce famous philosophers’ ideas exist. Fred Van Lente explains that the origin of the idea involved wanting to help clear Nietzsche’s name: I thought it would be [...]
Shelley Segal’s “Eve” (And Interview)
October 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke Following PZ’s lead, last weekend I highlighted the video “Saved” by Shelley Segal. Segal’s debut album is called An Atheist Album and comes out some time in the next few weeks. Below, via Token Skeptic comes an interview and the acoustic performance of another song “Eve”. (By the way, Token Skeptic also has photographic proof of Bigfoot [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism 1 Comment »Shelley Segal’s “Saved”
October 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The girl can sing. And push back against false ideas. The forthcoming album is called An Atheist Album. This song is available on Amazon. Via PZ. Lyrics are below the fold:
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music 5 Comments »FtBTV
October 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke In the last week, three of our newer Freethought Blogs neighbors posted videos in which they are featured. So see and/or hear your Freethought Blogs bloggers below! We have Crommie rocking out with his band CROWN, Justin Griffith giving what he considers to be his best interview ever about foxhole atheists, and Dana Hunter debunking “crystal magic”. [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Skepticism, Skepticism No Comments »A Short Film In Fake English
October 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The film is called Skwerl. Is that what we English speakers sound like to people who can’t understand us? Is this? Your Thoughts?
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