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I discovered the blog Geeks of Doom yesterday. It included this T-shirt image that all fans of Monty Python will understand and enjoy<\/a>. While a few of you may actually want to get the T-shirt, I suspect that even those who don\u2019t will want to share the image.<\/p>\n

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Also from that site is a lot more to enjoy, including a T-shirt for Mordor University<\/a>. And also in the realm of Monty Python, Jim West blogged about the Holy Flying Circus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More broadly of geek interest around the blogosphere, IO9 reminded us of the time Superman turned into Satan<\/a>, John Wilkins<\/a> and Micky Haist<\/a> blogged about Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the Sci-Fi Catholic blogged about Christians and fantasy<\/a>, and Daniel Kirk discussed marriage with an insight<\/a> from The Sparrow<\/em> by Mary Doria Russell<\/a> $\"\"$ . Kevin DeYoung offered ten commandments for blog commenters that mix conservative Evangelical Christianity and Star Wars<\/a> (HT Marc Cortez<\/a>). And Amanda Mac blogged about sci-fi and fantasy \u201cresurrections\u201d<\/a> \u2013 those characters who seemed to have died, did die or were \u201cmostly dead\u201d and yet still managed to come back for later episodes.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"