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POPSHeathen Aposeidonist And why is it that the legends of Poseidon are filled with these fantastic stories, but we don’t see any of these miracles today. In an age of cheap and available telecommunication and video recording, we never capture these miracles on tape. Well, there was that cheese sandwich thing that one time. We’re only left with some historical documents from thousands of years ago. Sure, some people say he still protects ships at sea, and some of the nuttier people say he caused the 2005 tsunami as punishment against the faithless. But what about the very obviously improbable events: there are no reports of him seducing mortal women today. He doesn’t make deals to build walls around modern cities as he did with Troy. He had children that included mermaids, winged horses, cyclopses, and giants; we don’t see creatures like this today. Why is it that all these supernatural events were recorded frequently back then, but not now?
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POPSWhen Star Wars Jumped The Shark Anakin Skywalker was basically the equivalent of a can’t-miss basketball prospect from the mean streets of Tatooine who got a Jedi Academy scholarship despite being a punk. Yeah, that’s going to resonate with all the athletically addled dorks who used to idolize the franchise.
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POPSArt From Paper Cuts Art from A4 paper: the cut away spaces as much a part of the final work as the shapes they're used to construct.
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POPSCool Fairy Art Work - Selena Fenech For those who enjoy fantasy - you sure to love the art work of Selena Fenech - on her site she has quite a number of free wallpapers etc, you amy want to have a look.
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POPSMaurice Sendak's modern-day fairy tales (story on NPR) It's always struck me as interesting that classic fairy tales are full of children in danger, while modern children's literature tends to avoid those themes. Seems to me, many children probably feel that their lives are very dangerous, so I can understand the appeal of old-fashioned, scary stories. Maurice Sendak's appeal may be similar.
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POPSStrange Art? How odd. And they get $300 apiece for them. I wonder if business is good or not.
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POPSThe Web's Greatest Links Page Part I (Websites) I saw someone just post the name and the url but none of the sites that it links to, I thought I could do it a little more justice. These are not even a miniscule accounting of the Websites that this page links to. Truly something for everybody. The second part is web blogs...
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