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Canned Dragons

A personal weblog reflecting mostly on faith, culture, noise and tech. Written by Robert.

Canned Dragons pulls in thoughts from other independent blogs as well as social media accounts and major publishers.

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Magnum Mars

The subject of Christian masculinity has been hot these last few years and the NYT piece on Orthodoxy and the influx of young men to the faith have reignited interest in the Orthodox world. Religion professor Phil Dorroll writes about what masculinity looks like within the Orthodox Christian context. In

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Negative Witness

In the TV series, Shogun, the fish out of water character, John Blackthorne, a Protestant English sailor on a Dutch ship, finds himself stranded in Japan. Almost immediately, viewers are introduced to his intense hatred of Catholics, particularly the Portuguese priests he quickly encounters in the country. He spews vehement

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King Cnut

London-based outfit Mandrake Handshake has something like a psychadelic+ sound. Or as they call it themselves—flowerkraut. They probably owe as much to Stereolab as anyone else. In their song “Hypersonic Super-Asterid,” they actually use the phrase “metronomic underground," which is the first track from Stereolab’s Emperor Tomato

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Treasure Hoard - January 2026

Saving music videos, history not written by the victors, doomerism, imagine no religion, the tween Michaelangelo, etc.

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Playing Through

Those of us in Central North Carolina are looking at a nasty ice storm this weekend. In preparation, I did something I hadn’t done in a long time: I bought a video game. Until a few days ago, our PS4 wasn’t even working because you couldn’t connect

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