# bad religion (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover bad religion. Page: Feed: --- ## [Shaming Never Works | Weekstarter 34-2026](https://ahmetasabanci.com/shaming-never-works-weekstarter-34-2026/) _2026-08-17 · ahmetasabanci · Weird and Deadly Interesting_ Weekstarter is here. Come and get your weekly updates, links, recommendations, and notes about why I think shaming is never a good tactic. ## [From the Notebook | Weekstarter 33-2026](https://ahmetasabanci.com/from-the-notebook-weekstarter-33-2026/) _2026-08-10 · ahmetasabanci · Weird and Deadly Interesting_ Weekstarter is back after an unplanned break. Come and get your weekly updates, links, recommendations, and notes from all the things I've been thinking about lately. ## [Thermochauvinism vs Adaptation | Weekstarter 27-2026](https://ahmetasabanci.com/thermochauvinism-vs-adaptation-weekstarter-27-2026/) _2026-06-30 · ahmetasabanci · Weird and Deadly Interesting_ Weekstarter is here with the regular updates, links, and a quick note about why thermochauvinism is a term we should learn and think about. ## [Reading Lists Can Wait | Weekstarter 26-2026](https://ahmetasabanci.com/reading-lists-can-wait-weekstarter-26-2026/) _2026-06-22 · ahmetasabanci · Weird and Deadly Interesting_ Weekstarter is here and this week, along with the regular news and updates, I talk about why we all should figure out the difference between our reading lists and to-do lists. ## [Do You Want the Future? | Weekstarter 25-2026](https://ahmetasabanci.com/do-you-want-the-future-weekstarter-25-2026/) _2026-06-16 · ahmetasabanci · Weird and Deadly Interesting_ A late Weekstarter with your usual updates, links, and some observations about the people who doesn't want the future and do their best to slow anyone who wants to build better worlds. ## [Bring Your Own System | Weekstarter 23-2026](https://ahmetasabanci.com/bring-your-own-system-weekstarter-23-2026/) _2026-06-02 · ahmetasabanci · Weird and Deadly Interesting_ After a long unintended break, Weekstarter is back with your usual updates, cool things and why I need a personal system and set of routines, because that's what I've been thinking about a lot lately. ## [The Need for Anti-Dystopias | Weekstarter 19-2026](https://ahmetasabanci.com/the-need-for-anti-dystopias-weekstarter-19-2026/) _2026-05-05 · ahmetasabanci · Weird and Deadly Interesting_ A late Weekstarter but it has all the updates and notes for the week. And some notes about the anti-dystopia concept and why it's a concept everyone needs to learn. ## [Quality Filters | Weekstarter 17-2026](https://ahmetasabanci.com/quality-filters-weekstarter-17-2026/) _2026-04-20 · ahmetasabanci · Weird and Deadly Interesting_ Weekstarter is here with the regular updates, some links and why we all need better quality filters for the media and information we're consuming. ## [Business of One Problems | Weekstarter 16-2026](https://ahmetasabanci.com/business-of-one-problems-weekstarter-16-2026/) _2026-04-13 · ahmetasabanci · Weird and Deadly Interesting_ Weekstarter is here with the usual updates, things I've found, and some notes about the problems anyone running a business of one, like me, should be prepared for. ## [Burial-London Connection Part 2](https://ahmetasabanci.com/burial-london-connection-part-2/) _2026-04-02 · ahmetasabanci · Weird and Deadly Interesting_ An unexpected follow-up to my blog post about the relationship between music and the cities from 2019. ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dxRbQMxC9OAq) _2026-04-02 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [Here For The Music | Weekstarter 14-2026](https://ahmetasabanci.com/here-for-the-music-weekstarter-14-2026/) _2026-03-31 · ahmetasabanci · Weird and Deadly Interesting_ I'm resigning from the discourse. Weekstarter is here with your usual and unusual updates, recommendations, and some notes about why "The street finds its own uses" should be our approach to the technology. ## [I’ve Never Seen Die Hard: OTC’s Favorite “Christmas” Movies](https://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/ive-never-seen-die-hard-otcs-favorite-christmas-movies/) _2024-12-20 · anitadalton · Odd Things Considered_ I think we are all aware of the meme of Die Hard as a Christmas film. The arbiters of coolness decided there was something a bit cringe about the people who claimed it as their favorite holiday film. Like, Hey, forget It s a Wonderful Life normies, I m the freaky sort of dude who thinks Die \[ \] ## [An Odd Look at Veteran’s Day](https://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/an-odd-look-at-veterans-day/) _2024-11-11 · anitadalton · Odd Things Considered_ So, did everyone s great-grandmother keep scrapbooks where she pasted clippings from news stories about all the military personnel from her general area? Or was it just mine? My maternal grandfather s mother spent untold hours of her life pasting newspaper clippings about military members into these now-crumbling scrapbooks. I am unsure how many of these she \[ \] ## [Oddtober 2024: Sinful Cinema Series 7: The Stendhal Syndrome by Doug Brunell](https://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/oddtober-2024-sinful-cinema-series-7-the-stendhal-syndrome-by-doug-brunell/) _2024-10-30 · anitadalton · Odd Things Considered_ Book: Sinful Cinema Series 7: The Stendhal Syndrome (say this five times in a row as fast as you can) Author: Doug Brunell Type of Book: Non-fiction, film criticism Why Do I Consider This Book Odd: Well, it s not that odd, strictly speaking, but discussing Doug Brunell s Sinful Cinema series has become as close to \[ \] ## [Oddtober 2024: Catsploitation Zine, Part Three – The Black Cat edition](https://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/oddtober-2024-catsploitation-zine-part-three-the-black-cat-edition/) _2024-10-29 · anitadalton · Odd Things Considered_ Told you I would revisit Catsploitation if I could. After discussing the first Catsploitation during ‘Zine September, I was eager to get my hands on more of these ‘zines for Oddtober but was worried I wouldn’t get them in time. Bast smiled upon me, and here it is, a look at Catsploitation Zine Part 3: \[ \] ## [Oddtober 2024: The Melancholy Nostalgia of Rotary Phones in Horror Movies](https://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/oddtober-2024-the-melancholy-nostalgia-of-rotary-phones-in-horror-movies/) _2024-10-28 · anitadalton · Odd Things Considered_ Rotary phones. This whole entry came about because of the black rotary phone on Laurie s chest of drawers in John Carpenter s Halloween. Lately I ve found myself focusing on phones in older horror movies. The black rotary phone in Black Christmas that delivers deranged phone calls from a psycho killer to the helpless sorority girls. The \[ \] ## [Oddtober 2024: The Black Shuck](https://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/oddtober-2024-the-black-shuck/) _2024-10-25 · anitadalton · Odd Things Considered_ ETA: Last night, after completing this entry, I had a fourth black shuck. I m reading a short story collection called Dark Blood Comes From the Feet by Emma J. Gibbon. One of the stories is called The Black Shuck. To paraphrase James Bond, Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Third time is enemy action. The \[ \] ## [Oddtober 2024: Ben Thompson’s Gravestone](https://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/oddtober-2024-ben-thompsons-gravestone/) _2024-10-24 · anitadalton · Odd Things Considered_ This is a repeat of an older entry that I ran during Oddtober 2017. It s one of my favorite creepy Austin locations, and reading back over it makes me realize it s been entirely too long since I took off on a weird places jaunt. Enjoy! Ben Thompson doesn’t have the level of posthumous fame as \[ \] ## [Oddtober 2024: The Monster in the Closet Was Real](https://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/oddtober-2024-the-monster-in-the-closet-was-real/) _2024-10-23 · anitadalton · Odd Things Considered_ I ve dwelt in the true crime cave for far too long, though it seems I will never grow out of my fascination with the worst people can do and those willing to do it. Over the last ten years, I ll go a good while without falling down a true crime rabbit hole and it takes \[ \] ## [Oddtober 2024: Bad Religion – Catholic Horror Movie Crapshoot](https://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/oddtober-2024-bad-religion-catholic-horror-movie-crapshoot/) _2024-10-22 · anitadalton · Odd Things Considered_ What do you know? Another APac mini zine is shaping another OTC entry. I ve over-relied on these little zines because my will to write came back so late in the game that I had very little time to create any sort of theme for Oddtober. I didn t even have enough time to just read some \[ \] ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FwHlM18dao3J) _2024-10-22 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [Oddtober 2024: Bad Religion – Cartoons for Christ](https://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/oddtober-2024-bad-religion-cartoons-for-christ/) _2024-10-21 · anitadalton · Odd Things Considered_ I really want to know and I am being completely serious here, this is not a rhetorical question do you know anyone whose faith was changed or otherwise influenced by unsolicited religious cartoons? Because it s hard for me to fill in the dots between this interesting piece of mail we got during the \[ \]