Drew’s Blog-O-Rama: The Movie Blog That Other Movie Blogs Beat Up After School roars back from the undead with some hot, fresh snark on various topics. Thank God for Bloglines or I might have missed it. One interesting question raised: is Russell Crowe’s new movie tanking because people are boycotting it, or because it sucks? This seems like a good excuse to screw around with Blogpolling again. Watch for a new poll later today. I remember seeing a “quirky” news item last week where movie theaters were offering a money-back guarantee to filmgoers who see Cinderella Man and don’t come…
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BBC NEWS | Americas | US Church backs same-sex marriage The UCC (United Church of Christ) has passed a resolution in support of gay marriage. It’s a “mainline” denomination – mostly of the Congregational flavor. They’re running the well-received “God is still speaking, you’re welcome here” ads. My own national church will be running some pretty cool ads in August. Yay us! The mainline churches are starting to take that light out from under the bushel at last. But we still have to get over the general ickiness of talking to people about church stuff. I’m as guilty of this…
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I’ve been slowly getting more photos online from the recent trip to Washington State – some more Folk Life pictures are up on my Flickr site. I’ve got a lot more to add to both the gallery page and to Flickr, I hope by the end of this week.
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Oh, this is truly funny. I got a lot of fake "your computer has been compromised and is being used to send spam" emails. Why do I know they are fake? Here's a typical "alert." Dear user of midrange.com, Your email account has been used to send a huge amount of junk e-mail during this week. Obviously, your computer was compromised and now runs a trojaned proxy server. Please follow instruction in order to keep your computer safe. Sincerely yours, The midrange.com support team. Obviously, someone thinks they're being devious, because not so obviously, my husband David IS the midrange…