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Archive for June, 2007

Full Exposure

Friday, June 29th, 2007

http://www.cartermason.com/headshot2007/
Those are the best of the shoot on Monday. In my opinion, any way!
A lot of them are very similar. I’m working on paring down the list to about 15-20 to give to my theatrical agent (which is a little easier because basically the theatrical shots are the ones I’m not smiling in…). My commercial [...]

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New Headshots

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

It’s that time again already. Here’s an early favorite. It’s supposed to be a cop show look. What do you think? “Carter Mason” has new hair color, too…

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Shark Bite Leads to Reproduction Mystery

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

This is just interesting:
http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/S/SHARK_MYSTERY?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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How to Emerge Without Being Emerging

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I normally enjoy Darryl’s writings on dashhouse.com, whether I agree all the time or not. This recent post kind of got under my skin a little:
How to Emerge Without Being Emerging: “Here, then, are some ideas on how to adopt the best of the emerging movement without actually becoming emerging.
Challenge the status quo – The [...]

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Rationalizing Away the Right Thing

Monday, June 18th, 2007

We who follow Christ do not always have the luxury of a black and white world, though some would surely like us to believe that.
In some situations, we are more than happy to not discuss any rational thought and just stick to our beliefs about what the Bible teaches… no argument to the contrary will [...]

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Sexual predators online – the real story

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Sexual predators online – the real story: “Cory Doctorow:
The next time someone starts telling you how important it is to ‘protect kids from online predators,’ send them to this record of the DC Internet Caucus panel on kids and predation, wherein quantitative social scientists describe the real situation with predators and kids. Kids do get [...]

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While this blog has been a little slower than I’d like lately, it doesn’t mean I’m any less in touch with what’s going on in the emerging church. A positive trend I’m starting to see is that the emerging church has begun moving away from being a “youth thing” in the popular perception.
Sure, it’s getting [...]

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Fans fit the battle of 'Jericho,' and CBS came tumbling down – MSNBC: “

KOMO

Fans fit the battle of Jericho, and CBS came tumbling downMSNBC’- 1 hour agoIts official: After being pressured by fans, who sent 50000 pounds of peanuts to its New York office, CBS has brought back ‘Jericho,’ the America-after-the-bombs drama that the network [...]

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Weeds Season 2 on iTunes – Finally!

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Click for Weeds Season 2 on iTunes!
Curiously, Weeds Season 2 was not available on iTunes during the season as it aired. Presumably, this had something to do with proprietary deals with another vendor who will remain nameless (and did not sell videos to Mac customers… what a stupid move for Showtime with [...]

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Five Post-evangelical Answers for Today’s Evangelical Crisis: “1) I’m convinced that the greatest answer evangelicals have within their power is the determination to start new churches. Renewal and revival of existing churches is a worthy cause, but I don’t think you are going to reverse the downward, deteriorating direction in most existing churches. The hope [...]

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