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Mep Report #63

Stuck Snowy Storey Shows Super Simplicity, All-In for Heroin, The Search for Obama, Drunken Pilots and Other Tales of Opportunism, Fun with Math (No, Really), The Mep Revised, The Saddam Hussein...

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Mep Report #78

Vanilla Christ and Chocolate Moses, It’s Not Unusual for Russ to Be Alone… Because He’s Too Smart for People, the Birth of an ArrogantJerk, the Giant Flying Beaver’s Quantum Leap, Serious Vlogging, the...

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Mep Report #108

Lying Mothers and the Babies they Wield, Generic Chieftain Man and the Bear God Puku-Puku, Male Angst as Motivation for Human Sacrifice, Baseball as Religious Methadone, Aztec Hippies, and TMR Defeats...

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Religious Artifact

I’m not a full-fledged Pastafarian, but I’m definitely a sympathizer. Below, you’ll find an old Pastafarian parable of the first true test of the One True Noodly Deity, the Flying Spaghetti Monster…

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Mep Report #111

Russ and the Christmas Curse, Greg Calls Natural Laws Out, What If God Was a Baby, Russ Goes to the Island of Dr. Santa Claus, Russ is No Longer a Fan of Cheese, Russ is Hit Over the Head With a...

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Mel Gibson Co-opts Our Deity

This is a tough one to bear. Above, is a picture of nutbar Mel Gibson wielding a beaver puppet. Allegedly, this is all for an upcoming Jodie Foster directed film entitled, “The Beaver.” One would...

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Shutter Power

If you’re one of those people who thought digital photography’s advent was going to kill the art of the picture, here’s a good counterargument. I’m not as into photography as I used to be, but picture...

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From the Church of Latter Day Demons

Feeling the holiday season doldrums? Why not open up new terrifying vistas of reality with the Necronomicon? And, if you purchase one in the next two minutes, you’ll receive an ebony Chtulhu-style...

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Christmas Abuses (or ‘Bah Humbug’)

Everyone’s favorite Emilio Estevez sibling was in the news today for allegedly “breaking several pairs of eyeglasses” in front of his wife during a Christmas tirade. The horror! The BBC lead story...

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Ugandan Government Endorses Hate Crimes

Some eye-opening testimony from Ugandan citizens in response to a new state measure that would call for either life imprisonment or the death penalty for anyone convicted of practicing homosexuality.

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Yelm Strikes Again: Troop Waterboards Kid

Don’t think the moral lines are being blurred by those asked to go to war for the ideals of torturing people born in a different place? Think again. The girl is 4 (four) years old. Four. And you...

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I Love Bananas

I do not love this. This is one of the creepier YouTube videos in recent memory. It reminds me of a French Surrealist spoof of The Fountain. In other words, this fellow could be the Avatar of Ehecatl,...

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Cassini’s Saturn Pac-Man

Cassini heat-graded imagery of Saturn’s moon Mimas revealed an unmistakable image of an old digital friend this week. Why do I get the feeling that that Mario, Qbert, and Pac-Man sightings will...

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Say ‘Hebbo’ to Tarvuism

Tarvuism is the newest life-solving, octopus befriending, super-power unleashing belief system on the block. Needless to say, I will be looking into their Octopus-Intensive Weekend Retreat as soon as...

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Howdy Doody Plays God

This — this is something special. Not only does it rate very highly on the internet scale of bizarro, it also taps into some interesting mythological imagery. My favorite aspect is that the...

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Koyaanisqatsi by King Crimson

This is one of those serendipitous finds that is a little bit too Meppy for coincidence’s sake. Here we have footage from Mep favorite Koyaanisqatsi set to music from progressive rock band, King...

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The Problem with ‘Absolute Morality’

I anticipate a lack of consensus on this point amongst the Meppers, but I think Richard Dawkins gives us a worthy starting point here in responding to a hackneyed argument against Atheism, that it...

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Flintstones Vitamins Placed in Birthday Cakes Nationwide (Mep Report #122)

Lecturing Prison Gangs, Michael Richards Riot Redux, Fantasy Theater of the Abhorrent, Know Your Audience, Don’t Celebrate Mediocrity; Celebrate the Jersey Shore, Malnourished Pet Superheroes, And the...

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Dude, I Am You

Decided to pair up this image I came across recently, with the following video. If you don’t get goosebumps from either or both, you should probably go off your prescription meds for a little while....

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Religion – The Bad Parent

One of my favorite YouTube pages, TheraminTrees, recently released an addendum video to its series on Transactional Analysis. Here, the narrator is presenting the psychological basis for religious...

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Grok the Void

Here’s some needed Monday fare. It’s an Alan Watts lecture snippet about nothingness. I’ve read a fair amount of Watts since college, and I find him to be the most effective philosopher at temporarily...

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Wake Up

The following piece features the voices of Joe Rogan, Bill Hicks, and the Bizarro Reagans. In posting this, I do not wish to convey that drugs are necessary to transcending the narrowness of your daily...

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Annihilating Pascal’s Wager

I don’t have any problem with making a choice to believe in God. That is your own business. However, if you’re a Pascal’s Wagerer who believes in God because it’s some sort of theological safety net,...

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Freedom Must be Earned

Apologies for the downtime here. There is so much to report, and so little time to do so. An unprecedented freedom movement has broken out through the entire region of North Africa and the Middle East....

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Vatican Assassin Warlocks

Experimental music video featuring a techno-warlock. Why not? Zaptra – “The Wise” Music Video from Danny Kim on Vimeo.

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Let the People Unite

I’ve been reading a bit about Islam recently, incidentally, via Joseph Campbell’s massive treatise on comparative religious history, The Masks of God. What struck me about the core values of the Koran,...

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Even Atheists are Blessed

Richard Dawkins puts a human lifespan in an alien, yet refreshing context.

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Merry Modern Passover

I readily admit, I am becoming less and less attached to what was once an important childhood tradition. Feel free to blame Joseph Campbell for this. Anyway, here’s a digital recap of that famous...

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Know Thyself

Thought provoking montage of quotes + imagery set to Clint Mansell’s The Fountain soundtrack = attention capture win.

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American: The Bill Hicks Story

An absolute must-see documentary that premieres this weekend in selected theaters. For those not in the know, Bill Hicks, is considered one of the patron saints of contemporary stand up comedians. He...

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An Experiment in Empathy

This video should be mandatory viewing for any and all American citizens. The closing Dostoevsky quote sums it up, “While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is harder than to...

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A Divine Thought Experiment

Let’s make the assumption that you are God, for a moment. Discuss…

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Hasa Diga Eebowai

From the new Broadway sensation, “The Book of Mormon” comes the most outstanding showtune I’ve ever heard. Warning: This song is NSFW and NSFChurch. Hasa Diga Eebowai

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The Last Glimpse

Ever think to yourself, boy, I really hated the execution of Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void, but loved the concept. Could you maybe find a Native American version based on an ancient Sanskrit epic without...

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The Despondancy of Synecdoche

I don’t know how I missed it in its original go-round, and am a little bit irritated at my digital arts media fare for not calling attention to it sooner, but Synecdoche, New York, may be the finest...

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Is Perfect Girl…Perfect? (Mep Report #127)

Perfect Girl Exposed! (No, It’s Not What You Think), Shrooms Exposed! (No, That’s Not What You Think Either), Russ Wins at 12th Dimensional Chess, Jackie Hates Perfect Girl, How Long Does It Take to...

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A Reassuring Fable

Part 3 of the Sagan series, a YouTube mashup string inspired by the works of astronomer and meta-human, Carl Sagan. Created by 25-year old Canadian philosophy student, Reid Gower.

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Everything

You should know by now that I always appreciate metaphysically reflective mashups. Bonus points to this piece for pulling material from They Live, Zeitgeist, and Bill Hicks.

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Forget Yourself

By which, I mean, remember yourself. By which, I mean, remember that your sense of individuality is merely an illusion. You are a manifestation of everything, that is. Or, as a famous fictional Martian...

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Mep Report #133: Storey Becomes the Luminarian

Download Mep Report #133 http://mepreport.com/MepRep13309Jan15.mp3 Storey Lights Bags, Shatters Records and Blows the Minds of Local Television Broadcasters; The Horrific Face of Traditional Christmas...

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Mep Report #140: The Locust Episode

Download Mep Report #140 http://mepreport.com/MepRep14021Sep15.mp3 140: The Plauge of Locusts Anniversary, Locusts in a Jersey, Bringing the Grasshopper View to the Locusts, Greg’s Good Old Gaming,...

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Mep Report #145: The Emu Awakens

Download Mep Report #145 http://mepreport.com/MepRep14511Jan16.mp3 Storey Breaks Luminaria Record, Doesn’t Sandbag The Roof is on Fire Happy New Year Three Hours Late! Russ vs. Christmas: Fight!...

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TMR #161: The Rise of Sky Emu

Download Mep Report #161 Listen Now!http://www.mepreport.com/MepRep16130Dec19.mp3 | Open Player in New Window A 90-minute deep-dive into the final (for now) Star Wars movie, laden with spoilers and...

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