Articles tagged with christianity

Episode 74: Humping That Piano Key

posted by Matthew Wrather on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 1:13am

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel and Mark Lee. They totally had a plan when they started this one. They swear. They do manage to touch on Twilight: New Moon, Thanksgiving pop culture revelations, Christian Reality Shows, and Ninja Assasin. Along the way, some other stuff comes up, like how to market amateur theatricals and whether eating less makes you live longer.

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Your Own Digital Jesus: The Religious Subtext of TRON

posted by Guest Writer on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 7:00am

[Enjoy today's guest post by Cracked regular Dan Seitz]

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TRON is, on the surface, a fairly simple Hero’s Journey story, common in the effects-heavy ‘80s. Man is somehow zapped into computer, man meets a girl and a hero, man fights the Man and triumphs. But beneath that is a relentless religious text, one perhaps uniquely aligned to the zeitgeist of the 1980s, that we’ll elucidate here.

Behold his flaming chariot

Behold his flaming chariot


The Best Logo In The World [Think Tank]

posted by Think Tank on Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 7:37am

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[Today, we step into the Think Tank, our steel cage match of ideas and friendly one-upsmanshp, to consider what is the best logo in the world. Read carefully all the entries and vote for your favorite at the end.]

Perich: The Red Cross

The Red Cross has the superior logo, out of everything in the world that does currently or could ever possibly use a logo, for the following reasons.