Fences + Human Nature = Really Cool Movie (different too from Snakes on a Plane).

By worldsfair on October 27, 2006.

Chances are, this 1952 film from Norman Mclaren cost less than $1.2 billion. Despite that, it won the Oscar for best animation that year.

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Oh, no! Another outbreak of Mooneyitis!

I'll be brief. I'm sure you all find these things as tiresome as I do. Once again, we've got a couple of indignant wanna-be bureaucrats of atheism complaining about those cranky, rough-hewn gnu atheists.

That Whole Separation of Church and State Thingee...

The NY Times has a very interesting article about an evangelical minister who decided that subordinating his religious beliefs to the Republican Party and the Hol

The Cult of Theory

Over at Cosmic Variance, Julianne (not JoAnne, as I originally typed) has a very nice post about the cult of genius in physics, and its relationship to research on the problems caused by

The Friday Fermentable: Vote for Your Phavorite Pharmboy by George Aldridge

Like his other movies Norman Mclaren produces the music by drawing directly on the audio strip of the film.

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