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Archive for April, 2005

Actually, sex doesn’t sell

Friday, April 8th, 2005

I’ve known these stats for quite awhile, but in the movie biz, sex doesn’t sell. Of course, there are exceptions. Teen comedies are boosted by sex. Can you imagine American Pie’s numbers were it desexified? But the myth that all sex sells is just that, a myth. And the tone of this article reminded me [...]

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Podcast delayed again

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

The next podcast is delayed until at least tomorrow evening. I have recovered the temp files now, but unfortuately Audacity broke the temp files into 1 mb sections. Before the final conversion to the mp3 I end up with, that leaves hundreds of segments to piece back together… I may just record it again. Especially [...]

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Sick to my stomach

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

I may have lost the entire recording of my podcast. Audacity crashed. Supposedly there are temp files, but I can’t find them yet. I’m working on it, but I have to go to my friend’s b-day party now. Hopefully I’ll have the podcast up by tonight. And hopefully it won’t be re-recorded…

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Pope John Paul Passed Away

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005

Prayer for the Roman Catholic Church goes up as their Pope, John Paul II passed away today. John Paul was a man who had a huge heart for the Church and the oppressed of the world. I pray that his successor will lead with grace.

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Radical Church Structure

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005

In my podcast I’m recording later today, I’m discussing radical church structure (the topic voted in). Adam Cleaveland is apparetnly leaving emergent, for some of the reasons addressed in “The little known emerging church” and also some of what will be addressed in this podcast. Cleaveland takes Emergent to task, in a much harsher way [...]

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