The time has finally come! I can finally reveal a photography project that I originally started working on back in February. It was such an entertaining, yet challenging project and I enjoyed it thoroughly. What was especially cool was that during this project I had the wonderful opportunity to work with one of my heroes, Donna, aka Ms. Information. So what was this super-secret photography projec... »
I got sorta giddy when I saw that Nick Cave had written a song about the Higgs Boson, and it’s about the delegitimizing of religion in the face of science to boot. But then it turns out to be more of a lament than anything (Who cares what the future brings?). While Cave has always been critical of religion in general, he is notoriously slippery and hard to pin down on the God question. He se... »
I was lucky enough to see the opening preview night of the Chicago Book of Mormon run this Tuesday (exceedingly lucky, thanks Amanda!). I’m sure many of you have seen it live elsewhere or on YouTube by now, so I’ll try to keep the synopsizing to a minimum and stick to the things that may be unique to this run. I haven’t consistently watched South Park since college, but the openi... »
Every single year around this time, atheists get accused of waging a WAR ON CHRISTMAS. I imagine the religious folks have visions of my fellow atheists stripping the baubles off Christmas trees, kneecapping the chubby-fake-bearded Santa cosplayers at the mall and then gleefully ripping the precious gifts out of the hands of innocent children who burst into tears and then with a final evil-atheist ... »
The Flying Spaghetti Monster came into pop-atheist culture with a big bang in 2005 when Bobby Henderson brought attention to the idea as a satirical protest to the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to teach intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution in public schools. Fine, said Bobby. ( And I am paraphrasing here) If we are gonna give weight to one popular fairy ta... »
Hey, remember that time when I used a song by Quiet Company as a lab track? And then that other time I got to interview two members of Quiet Company? And I asked them all about the album that was essentially Taylor Muse’s breakup letter to god? No? I’ll wait for you to click on all those links and catch up. Back? Good. If you live in the South or on the East Coast of the US, I have goo... »
On Sunday evening, Atheist Film Festival director/founder David Fitzgerald and I were interviewed by DJ Jessie G and Wild Bill on The Mutiny Rodeo, a show on Mutiny Radio here in San Francisco. We talk about the festival, David’s book Nailed: Ten Christian Myths that Show Jesus Never Existed, what atheism means to each of us, where this movement is headed, and some other stuff along similar ... »
All the hard work I’ve been doing for the last year is about to pay off: tickets for the 2012 Atheist Film Festival – Saturday, August 11 in San Francisco – are now on sale! Feast your eyes on our rad trailer by the brilliant Casimir Fornalski (whom I interviewed here): If you’re going to be in the Bay Area on August 11th, please come to the festival (or tell your Bay Area ... »
