Blacksburgia: It’s time for someone to make it a show

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Calling all videography, drama and media students at Virginia Tech, I have a task for you:

In the tradition of Armisen and Brownstein, it is time to create the show Blacksburgia, and make it a YouTube series.  I would pledge a sum of money (and help raise some) to finance such a project.  The show will revolve around the adventures of two characters (for now let’s call them Frankie and Bridgette) who both are on the Blacksburg City Council and taking graduate courses at VT while investing in various small businesses.  Or something.  Whatever gives them a reason to survey they town with their quirky characters.  The show would present less a satire of the community, but rather a fun house mirror reflection of Blacksburg and all other college towns like it in Virginia.  The main theme song can be written and recorded by Wild Nothing.
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“Heaven is for Real”; Fiction About Heaven Labeled Non-Fiction is Not

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“Heaven is for Real”; Fiction About Heaven Labeled Non-Fiction is Not

David Platt talking on why “Heaven is For Real” and other books like it extort our hopes, waste our money, and devalue our scriptures—and thus should be ignored by Christians.

Dr. Bart Ehrman v. Kyle Butt: God and The Problem of Suffering

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Dr. Bart Ehrman v. Kyle Butt: Does Suffering Prove the God of the Bible Doesn’t Exist?

A captivating debate. It does begin to spin out of control come time for the question/answer session, especially when they get to the topic of moral prerogatives.
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Education, The War on Dirty Jobs, and the Worst Advice in the World

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“Opportunity Is Missed Because It Is Dressed in Overalls and Looks Like Work”—anon.

Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances
Anagnorisis: A critical discovery

Want to hear the worst advice in the world?  Let Mike Rowe present it to you.

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“The arts are not a way to make a living” -Kurt Vonnegut

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“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” -Kurt Vonnegut