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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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Proto-Hobbits and Income Babies

Shortly into the new year, my wife and I picked up my oldest son, who is living in an apartment with friends, and went to the art museum (a place we all love). During the car ride, he was telling us about how he had been spending time until classes

Illustration of a Hobbit house from The Lord of the Rings, glowing with warmth and overcome with vegetation.
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Stop Me If You Think That You’ve Heard This One Before

One testament to my affection for the Smiths is the fact that I desperately wanted to hate them. My girlfriend in high school sung their praises, but we weren’t totally in sync in the music department. I was turned off by what I saw as the pretentiousness of Morrissey,

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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