Daily Archives: December 5, 2008

Holiday Music Recommendations

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If you’re out at the First Friday art walk in downtown Phoenix with us at the time this is posted, there’s a good chance you’re hearing some of the fun holiday music we’re playing, so in case some of you go home and check the web site out I thought you might like to know what the music is.

Most of our holiday music comes from A Very Scary Solstice and An Even Scarier Solstice, both by The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. You can listen to It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men, which is one of my favorite tracks, as well as some others on their web site. If you like what you hear, please buy it and maybe they’ll make another album for us!

You may also have heard selections from Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics, a fun little album of music sung by South Park characters. It is a bit more adult oriented, but it contains some very funny songs.

I’m sure there are many others out there as well, so if you’re tired of the limited selection of standard Christmas tunes you hear on the radio but you’re not a big fan of ours, there’s still hope for you.

Now that you know you don’t have to be stuck listening to an endless loop of Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer every December for the rest of your life, you can start searching for things you like and you’re sure to find something fun!


Webcomic of the Week: Remember to cite your sources

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Questionable Content webcomic has put up another potently hilarious strip, “Another Penny-Rant.” It is good to keep in mind that the majority of people are not the extremophiles who end up pushing their children away from their own cultures—the way that Young Earth Creationism and other deep-field cults can; but that the fanatic edge is the most shrill.

Eventually we sometimes do drift apart, and we all have different reasons for it. The more ridiculous the presentation, the further divorced it is from common social norms and reality the more likely it will draw ridicule and eyerolls.

Link, via Questionable Content

Mill Avenue Resistance – December 2008

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December 27, 2008
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The Mill Avenue Resistance is still going strong, but lately the preaching on Mill has been even more pathetic than usual. The last two weeks in November, Al (who is usually reliable for a laugh) refused to haul his god and pony show out for ridicule, but late last Saturday night there was a spark of hope for the preachers in Al’s surrogate Brant, until he opened his mouth.

If you thought you had heard nonsense from a street preacher before, you should really talk to this guy. He did have the same basic street preaching template that the others had to work from, but he seemed to have little or no knowledge of anything outside of that. It was pathetic.

So preachers, if you’re listening, step up your game and bring on someone who can at least give a half-assed attempt at defending your (admittedly indefensible) fairy tale god, or take a cue from the rest of your dwindling crew and just pack it in.

As for those on our side, while our opposition has been in sorry shape lately, we can’t afford to go down the same path. So far we still have good turnouts, but no matter how lame they get we must hold up our end, even in the frozen winter Hell that awaits us for the next couple of months. We’ll see what we can do about getting hot chocolate or coffee or somethin’ to ease the pain.

Thank you for coming out so consistently, and please bear with us while the preachers work out their personnel issues.

First Foray into First Friday

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December 5, 2008
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Recently a friend of one of our members became the first to pull out his spot light and turn on the Atheist Signal. Much like Batman, we can be called to defend science and sanity anywhere in the Phoenix area, and perhaps beyond. We have yet to see the limits of the Signal tested.

Anyway, our new friend runs an art gallery in downtown Phoenix, and he has a problem that is right up our alley. On the first Friday of every month, during the First Friday art walk events (which are important not only to visitors but to the businesses involved), he has a regular crew of unwanted guests in the form of loud preachers yelling into his gallery from the street.

Even worse there are reportedly other groups of preachers in the area for these events as well, so we may be forced to split up our time or people to cover them all, but if we seem to be making a positive impact then we will continue to attend First Friday events indefinitely.

If you haven’t come out to Mill Avenue with us, maybe because it’s too far away from you, please consider this as an alternative place to make a difference. We would love to see some new faces out there to support us and the truth!

If you plan to come out you can just look for a group of unhappy preachers with an extra speaker near them, or you can use the forum or contact form to get in touch with us ahead of time and we’ll make more solid plans.