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 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

« February 2006 | HOME | April 2006 » March 2006 Cheerleader recants How do these people keep their jobs? (Via Atrios)... March 31, 2006 Stop praying It's a proven fact: If someone you love is having medical problems, the worst thing you can do is say, "I'll pray for you." Now I'm wondering if all those Christians who write me saying they will pray for me... March 30, 2006 Richard John Neuhaus Compelling piece in the New Republic about who exactly is behind the push to replace reason with Middle Ages superstition: Whether or not the recent prominence of religiosity in the nation's public life signals that America is undergoing a new... March 30, 2006 "Rape of the Soul" Rape of the Soul: A new documentary applying pseudoscientific theories to discover hidden messages in sacred art. If you liked "backwards masking," you'll love Rape of the Soul. March 29, 2006 Religious hostility Oh, those hostile atheists. Don't they know that religion is not related to injustice?... March 28, 2006 Attempted edit If only reversing early Christian vandalism were this easy.... March 28, 2006 Dang Too many facts! Too many facts! Quick! Show some scary brown people on TV!... March 28, 2006 What happened 1. The Bush Administration was determined to go to war in Iraq. 2. The Administration claimed that Saddam's possession of WMD was the reason for the war, because the public wouldn't have supported a war otherwise. 3. The Administration staged... March 27, 2006 Randy Quaid Has become whom Keythe Farley and I tried to make him.... March 26, 2006 Sam Harris on Buddhism Kill the Buddha? Sam Harris want to kill Buddhism. (PDF)... March 26, 2006 The God Who Wasn't There Here is a collection of links related to the feature-length documentary The God Who Wasn't There. March 25, 2006 Are you a Christian? God is a sadistic, murderous psychopath who has set up the universe in the following way: Declare your love and obedience to him, or suffer the endless torments he has invented for you. If you do not believe the statement... March 24, 2006 Hosties Here's something I had planned to do for The God Who Wasn't There, but for various reasons never got around to doing. The idea was to shoot man-on-the-street interviews as if we were conducting a market study for a new... March 23, 2006 Whiny ass titty babies? I'm developing a thesis that Americans (not just the right) are generally whiny ass titty babies. The typical American-drawn caricature of others (say, Canadians, the French) is that they are simpering cowards, but really we're the cowards, driven to such... March 23, 2006 Take the poll David Ian Miller's interview of me that was originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle is now at Beliefnet. There's a poll accompanying the article. Zombie Jesus is winning by a mile right now.... March 22, 2006 Smart Cars in U.S. If every driver in the U.S. switched to one of these, I wonder how many people would actually run into problems doing the things they want to do in a given day? 10%? 20%? In Holland, seeing all the bikes... March 22, 2006 We get letters Unsatisfied customer: Dear whoever reads this, I just watched your film and I'm very dissapointed. Even though I'm becoming more of an atheist everyday, I have to say that you make hardly any case at all. It's nothing more than... March 20, 2006 Happy St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2006 Signs Greenwald lays out just a few of the red flags: That's what the world of Bush followers looks like. Reporters should be thrown into prison. Citizens should be removed from political events for wearing political t-shirts. The President has the... March 16, 2006 "It’s an abuse of historical facts" That's what a theology professor says about The God Who Wasn't There. Did I mention that this professor believes it is a proven historical fact that a man died, stayed dead for three days, came back to life and then... March 16, 2006 "The God Who Wasn't There" at Longbaugh Film Festival The God Who Wasn't There will be appearing at the Longbaugh Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. Friday, April 7th 7:30 pm Laurelhurst Theater #3 2735 East Burnside Street Sunday, April 9th 5:15 pm Laurelhurst Theater #2 2735 East Burnside Street... March 15, 2006 More radio I recorded a telephone interview with the radio show "Out There!" this weekend. They broadcast the show today. Details: "Out There!" KUOG 90.5 FM Athens, Georgia 4 pm PT / 7 pm ET streaming live here downloadable podcast will be... March 15, 2006 Wow The Los Angeles Times, hometown newspaper of the industry that has as a sacred principle the goal of a perpetual copyright, apparently supports copyright reform: Copyright law is already too far-reaching, particularly in the U.S., where many works are automatically... March 14, 2006 A little slow Isaac Hayes notices that South Park makes fun of religion.... March 14, 2006 The new math Voting for a Christian = hostility to Christianity PZ Meyers rips the whiny Christian Left. Sometimes I really think these people check their brains at the door. What's the subject? Religion? Great, let me remove this pesky thing, won't be... March 13, 2006 Greedy Not that there's anything wrong with it. (Hat tip: The General)... March 13, 2006 I called Have you?... March 13, 2006 Isolationism? Apparently it has a new definition: Before George W. Bush took office, zero American presidents launched wars against countries that posed no threat to the United States for the purposes of transforming an entrenched dictatorship into a democracy. After Bush... March 13, 2006 Sam Harris defends Daniel Dennett Letter in today's NYT book review: Leon Wieseltier’s review of Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell (“The God Genome,” 2/19) was an impressive demonstration of the power of religious faith. In gathering the wood for this auto-da-fe, Wieseltier showed no facility... March 13, 2006 Frist supports impeachment of the President Republican Senator Bill Frist made this remarkable statement: I will have no part in the creation of a constitutional double-standard to benefit the President. He is not above the law. If an ordinary citizen committed these crimes, he would go... March 12, 2006 JC Cam A camera you can abuse: I went to a demo at Clairmont Camera to check out the new JC Cam on Friday. It's a custom rig built especially for a boxing movie that allows fighters to actually punch and kick... March 10, 2006 Boy You're gonna carry that weight. UPDATE: Link fixed.... March 10, 2006 Movie moment Breathless... March 09, 2006 CFI West needs volunteers CFI West needs volunteers. If you're in the L.A. area and looking for something fun involving freethought, you should check them out. In addition to meeting the movie stars who are always showing up at CFI, you can also get... March 09, 2006 Corruption Fact vs. faith.... March 09, 2006 "The God Who Wasn't There" Finally. The God Who Wasn't There is now in stock and shipping from Amazon.com within 24 hours.... March 08, 2006 Radio I'll be talking about The God Who Wasn't There: March 10, 2006, 12:30 pm PT/3:30 pm ET The Michelangelo Signorile Show Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 106, OutQ Repeat: March 10, 2006, 6 pm PT/9 pm ET Rational Response Squad Listen... March 08, 2006 Superstition Further confirmation that superstition is more common among Republicans and the uneducated.... March 08, 2006 One of us, one of us Josh Marshall joins the cult.... March 07, 2006 Shorter Amy Sullivan The way to defeat the religious right is to become more like them: Amy Sullivan is not one of the people I want advising the Democratic party…unless, that is, I suddenly decided I wanted to be a Republican, and was... March 06, 2006 To do in L.A. See 1984. See Julia's show. Get adjusted.... March 06, 2006 Looking too hard Washington Post story: He's a best-selling author, a New Testament expert and perhaps a cautionary tale: the fundamentalist scholar who peered so hard into the origins of Christianity that he lost his faith altogether.... March 05, 2006 Flock of Dodos A documentary about intelligent design vs. evolution: Flock of Dodos... March 04, 2006 Friday dog blogging By Nora Murphy.... March 03, 2006 "President Bush can no longer manage the government effectively" This is the opinion of those left-wing lunatics otherwise known as 59% of the nation.... March 02, 2006 A challenge to Christians Dear Christian believer, If you heard me earlier today on the Bob Dutko radio show, you know that I challenged you to investigate sincerely the origins of your religion, rather than be willfully deluded by the rigged arguments of Christian... March 02, 2006 "If the atheistic worldview prevails in our culture, Christianity could be outlawed in America" I suppose it was inevitable. The God Who Wasn't There is now being used as a poster child to raise money to "combat atheism, agnosticism, and liberalism." The overall political worldview of the group, American Vision, is interesting. The idea... March 02, 2006 Blogads survey Help out the good people at Blogads.... March 01, 2006 Me on the radio Some upcoming broadcast, satellite and internet radio appearances: March 2, 2006, 10 am PT/1 pm ET The Bob Dutko Show WMUZ 105.5 FM ("Detroit's Christian Radio") Listen live March 3, 2006, 6 pm PT/9 pm ET and March 10, 2006,... March 01, 2006 Richard Carrier on the radio Richard Carrier interviewed on WBAI radio: Direct Windows Media link Website... March 01, 2006

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