July 2005
The Archives
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disability, film, murderball, pity, stereotypes
No pity, please
Murderball opens in Atlanta today. I first heard about the movie after it won awards at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. I have read some dynamite reviews. You should definitely go see it if you have the opportunity. I’m definitely going. It could help in a small way to explode the myth that […]
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“Disabled” or “crippled?”
07.28.05 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI am unabashedly crippled. I am not “disabled”, not “physically challenged”, not “differently-abled”. I have tried all of the politically correct euphemisms for disability to describe myself as a person with cerebral palsy and none of them seem to fit. The truth is there is nothing politically correct about my limp. I am crippled. In […]
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Bound for Mars
07.27.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Bound for MarsWired reports on a new plan for the first Mars colony. Nifty graphics too. If you haven’t read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars yet, it’s not too late to add it to your summer reading list.
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Meet our guest MyIronists
07.25.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Meet our guest MyIronistsAnything Philocrites can do It’s in the water or something. Or I just let Guest MyIronist #1 talk me into yet another clever scheme. (Don’t let him talk you into biodeisel—he doesn’t even drive.) But the pace here at MyIrony HQ should be picking up considerably as we welcome two guest bloggers to our esteemed […]
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Emergent UU worship, take 2
Thom Belote, a guest Philocriteer, is asking if there could be anything like an "emergent UUism." • Is Emergent a style/form or a theology/theological process or both or something else? • Would an Emergent-style UU church work? • If so, would such a UU-Emergent church need to be grounded in U/U/UU Christian theology, or could […]
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See, I told you protesters suck
07.24.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on See, I told you protesters suckHow Chalice Chick came to stop protesting.
