So, here’s where I share with you some of what caught my eye this past week:

Read a college music reporter’s thoughts on disagreeing with fans and the role of music criticism in which he comments: “The fans can enjoy it all they like, but there must be a sense of objectivity in music. I always use the example of a gorilla learning to paint. To a proud gorilla trainer, the gorilla’s painting of “The Mona Lisa” could be the greatest thing ever painted. But obviously, on an objective level, it doesn’t quite live up to anything Leonardo da Vinci ever did.”

Read Slate’s catalogue of violence that appear’s in Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto.

Watch as Slate debuts Bob Dylan’s new video for “Thunder on the Mountain” from his album Modern Times.

Read about some fraternity brothers suing to stop the DVD release of the “Borat” movie, saying that their appearance in the film has caused them: “ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community.”

Read an interesting joint-interview of Jeremy Enigk and mewithoutYou’s Aaron Weiss in which they talk about their faith.

Browse Playlist’s list of iPod accessories of the year.

Read the Penn Current’s interview with David Dye of NPR’s World Cafe in which he lists his top five favorite albums among other things.

Browse Amazon’s list of the best books of 2006.

Recommend the best band on Myspace to Rolling Stone.

Read about the Velvet Undergound flea market item purchased for 75 cents and sold for $155,401.

Read Rick Lowry’s article “The Madness of Jimmy Carter,” which begins: “Jimmy Carter brings a Christian perspective to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Unfortunately, it is the same Christian perspective as a drunken Mel Gibson, obsessed with heaping blame on the Jews.

Read Slate’s piece “Holocaust Denial No Joke.”

Read the American Spectator piece which calls the Nativity Story movie “the best thing of its kind that there’s been.”

Read this piece which laments the state of dolls for girls.

Read this Books and Culture article dealing with the overuse of PowerPoint.

Read this article which cites a study claiming that cow emissions are more harmful to the environment than car emissions.

Read the L.A. Times article about “Hip Hop Church.”

Read the Daily Reel’s piece which claims: “I don’t mean to get all hyperbolic on you, but Sufjan Stevens is the closest thing this generation has to a Brian Wilson. His ambition knows no bounds, his compositions are both esoteric and universal, his instrumentation is chaotic yet graceful, his attitude both incredibly optimistic and hopelessly heartbroken, and his influences are almost strictly Americana.”

Read Christianity Today’s piece which looks at the music industry’s practice of “re-releasing” albums and says “enough already!”

Browse Christianity Today’s list of 2006’s “Best ‘Christian’ Children Albums.”

Read the Pearcey piece that claims that a judge actually plagiarized his landmark ruling against Intelligent Design in the schools.

Read Al Mohler’s piece asking if America is a “Christian” nation.