Brian Flemming's Weblog about me   |   email me W H A T ' S   G O I N G   O N My most recent film, The God Who Wasn't There, is available on DVD at the official site and elsewhere. Bat Boy: The Musical is currently being staged in productions of various sizes around the world. A movie adaptation directed by John Landis is in development, with no casting announced or shooting date set. My next feature film, Danielle, remains in development. Bill Gates is still dead. B L O G R O L L FILMMAKING: Cinema Minima Filmmaker HD for Indies indieWIRE Blogs Hollywood Liberation Army The Movie Marketing Blog FREE CULTURE: Creative Commons Copyfight EFF Deep Links Freedom to Tinker Lawrence Lessig POLITICS: Atrios Daily Howler Orcinus The Raw Story Talking Points Memo OTHER FAVORITES: Boing Boing GreenCine Daily Nora Murphy Pharyngula J O I N Original text in this weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License A R C H I V E S June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 powered by

« April 2007 | HOME | June 2007 » May 2007 There's a word for it And it rhymes with "slut": Evangelical teens are actually more likely to have lost their virginity than either mainline Protestants or Catholics. They tend to lose their virginity at a slightly younger age — 16.3, compared with 16.7 for the... May 31, 2007 Greydon Square's "The Compton Effect" Ships June 5.... May 31, 2007 While I was gone... The Arizona Republic printed its article on Bat Boy. I respect an actor who shaves his head for the role, as Jimmy Hays Nelson did: Sam Harris and Chris Hedges battled at Royce Hall. Apparently Hedges' approach to the debate... May 30, 2007 Uri Geller is a ridiculous fraud But you knew that. (This has been another installment of Antagonizing Uri Geller.)... May 20, 2007 Richard Carrier and Penn & Teller Richard just got back from Vegas, where he had some fun with firearms.... May 18, 2007 Jerry Falwell Remembered by Hitchens.... May 18, 2007 The president In a better world, Al Gore is in his second term as president.... May 17, 2007 The introverts' secret We're happier.... May 16, 2007 Jerry Falwell Remembered.... May 16, 2007 Obscenity Some pantywaists are complaining about a certain book just because it contains depictions of incest, rape, adultery, prostitution, drugs, bestiality and castration.... May 16, 2007 Humanure Be the first on your block. Worried about pathogens? Joseph Jenkins says, I know you are but what am I. Sorry if you were eating something.... May 15, 2007 TGWWT in Michigan See The God Who Wasn't There and discuss: What: The God Who Wasn't There & Dialectical Materialism Date: May 19, 2007, Sat 6pm Where: Atoms Java & Juice 15104 Kercheval Ave G.P.P., MI 48230 Reminder: You can screen TGWWT for... May 15, 2007 YouTube star not interested Doing just fine: So when YouTube finally got its act together and offered us an advertising split, it was too low an offer. We were doing better without them. And with less strings.... May 14, 2007 "Psychic" Uri Geller is a fraud I know that you know that self-proclaimed "psychic" Uri Geller is a laughable fake. However, since "Anonymous" (aka "Uri Geller") sent me a vague legal threat obviously designed to intimidate me, I thought I'd make it a habit to remind... May 14, 2007 Republican presidential candidates 1. Look! Mitty put his helmet on all by himself! That's a good little Mitty. Such a smart boy. Yes you are, yes you are. 2. I don't know about you, but when I have the flu, I constantly find... May 14, 2007 Misc. What it's like to be a young atheist in Oklahoma. (Thanks, Danny) Another Christian pastor admits that Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort lost miserably: "They got completely shellacked in this one." Breaking news: Men like to look at pictures of... May 14, 2007 The Nightline version of the debate ABC cut down the debate to present it on Nightline (Part 2 here), and their editing job was a model of artificial news-media "balance" over actual fairness. Obsessively committed to the ideology of balance-at-all-costs, Nightline managed to censor out the... May 11, 2007 MoveOn.org hearts moms You can get the Motherhood Manifesto DVD for free, and you don't even have to deny the Holy Spirit or anything: Watch the edgy, factual, and at times funny film that shows where the U.S. really stands on family-friendly policies,... May 11, 2007 Uri Geller videos A reader suggests I link to some more Uri Geller debunking videos. Spoon-bender Geller has obviously been using a two-pronged strategy to scrub the internet of evidence that he is a fake: File bogus copyright claims against critical videos, and... May 10, 2007 Judgment Day PZ lists twelve sins for which a certain system of "thought" needs to account. For the faithful's sake, I hope God doesn't turn out to be a scientist. 'Cause if he is, they're fucked*. *Note to religionists: Maybe just before... May 10, 2007 Looking for Bat Boy fans Kerry Lengel, a reporter for the Arizona Republic, is writing a story about a Phoenix Bat Boy production. He writes: I'm trying to track down a rabid Bat Boy fan, one of those who travel to shows -- and who... May 10, 2007 The ABC event Multiple clips and a write-up are now here.... May 09, 2007 Let the good times roll Jim Kunstler: The markets have been on an extraordinary spring run. The Dow finished 23 out of the last 26 days on the upside -- some of them pretty way on the upside. This is the biggest US stock market... May 09, 2007 Fight! Fight! Fight! Al Sharpton claims that this statement by him doesn't really say what it says: "As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don't worry about that; that's a temporary... May 09, 2007 Sapient vs. Geller Has been filed: "Uri Geller may not like it when people question his paranormal abilities. However, he is not allowed to stifle public criticism by misusing the law," said EFF Staff Attorney Marcia Hoffman. "If the publication of a video... May 09, 2007 Crybabies If you say something completely ridiculous in front of a crowd of people, and they laugh at you, according to Ray Comfort you deserve sympathy. Comfort has sent out a press release that basically says, "We may be dumb, but... May 08, 2007 Mike Curtis now consults for free Mike Curtis of HD for Indies has made two announcements of interest to indie filmmakers: An Amazon store and custom edit system configs. The value of both is that Mike has thought about complicated stuff so you don't have to.... May 08, 2007 New Humanist on the RRS Caspar Melville's feature on the Rational Response Squad.... May 08, 2007 YouTube pays No doubt feeling the heat from sites like Revver. Stars like LG15, Renetto, LisaNova and others weren't going to just keep generating advertising cash for YouTube forever. Now they don't have to make a Hobson's choice between video sites that... May 07, 2007 Anticipation The new Final Cut Studio looks like the best update yet*, and apparently Mike Curtis of HD for Indies has an announcement in the works related to "Mac edit system[s]." And I have to wait for both. Dammit. *The new... May 07, 2007 Buyer's remorse, anyone? The paths not taken. (L.A. Times finally realizes the folly of the current path we're on.)... May 07, 2007 Don't get your hopes up I am sorry to be the one to bear this bad news about last night's ABC-hosted debate. In case you were holding out hope that Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron truly would prove the existence of God, and thereby give... May 06, 2007 More misc. links Anyone can be an atheist. I am not involved. The U.S. political press refuses to understand the major criticisms leveled at it. (Possibly because: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his... May 05, 2007 Links you sent recently National Day of Failure. (Thanks, Jeff) Hitchens on Lou Dobbs. (Thanks, David) Further proof that my union is more an extension of the studios than an independent representative of its members' interests. (Thanks, Dennis)... May 04, 2007 The importance of insanity Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney believes the following: About 2600 years ago, a tribe of Israelites traveled across the sea and became the first humans to set foot on the Americas. As these humans multiplied, they split into two racial... May 04, 2007 The $50,000 Paranormal Challenge This upcoming event at CFI is built on a model that could also be used for "Existence of God" events. It's not a "debate" about whether paranormal ability exists. Rather, the person making the extraordinary claim has to show up... May 03, 2007 Email I have 190 messages in my inbox at the moment. And that's relatively low. My email inbox is a giant mountain of small-to-large tasks that just grows every day. The best I can to is chip away at it, never... May 03, 2007 Occupation Obviously, the "War on Terror" isn't a "war" in any meaningful sense of that term. George Lakoff points out that the Iraq War isn't a war either.... May 03, 2007 ABC debate streaming is re-scheduled for May 9 at 1 pm ET Ray Comfort just emailed this to me (and add that to the list of sentences I never thought I would write): ABC Reschedules Debate About God New York, May 2, 2007 - Actor Kirk Cameron and best-selling author Ray Comfort... May 02, 2007 Green Apple As usual, it seems that Steve Jobs really does have something to brag about in this area. So of course he does.... May 02, 2007 Publishers Weekly biased against atheists? I forget where I was reading it, but I remember someone a while back commenting that Publishers Weekly, the influential book-review service whose capsule reviews get top placement on Amazon.com, really seems to have it in for atheists. While books... May 02, 2007 Halloween is just around several corners So now is a good time to plant your pumpkin seeds (I did it last week) for your Halloween jack-o'-lantern. Oh -- and Normal Bob Smith just informed me that the Halloween edition of Jesus Dress Up is available starting... May 01, 2007 The "six-week war" They truly had no idea: WASHINGTON, May 1 -- President Bush's made-for-television address tonight on the carrier Abraham Lincoln was a powerful, Reaganesque finale to a six-week war. But beneath the golden images of a president steaming home with his... May 01, 2007 News flash Pot makes you paranoid. Now that they know, I'm sure those doctors will be doing all sorts of things to mess with me. They've always been after me. I think they're watching me right now.... May 01, 2007 Answers in Genesis Creation Museum This museum "will counter evolutionary natural history museums that turn countless minds against Christ and Scripture." The $25 million institution opens May 28. Kentuckians are thrilled. Why will the museum succeed? Gullibility is a factor: “Americans just aren’t gullible enough... May 01, 2007 Richard Carrier on history before 1950 I have heard Richard make this point before, and now he spells it out in detail in his latest (all too rare) blog entry: The first day I arrived in the office of my graduate advisor at Columbia University, Professor... May 01, 2007

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