Month: June 2024

30 Day Song Challenge, Day 5: A Song That Reminds You of Someone

Today’s selection for the 30 Day Song Challenge was much harder than I anticipated, but for reasons you might not expect. It certainly is NOT the case that I don’t have plenty of songs that remind me of someone. It IS the case, however, that when you say “this song reminds me of [some person],”…

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American Philosophy and/or Philosophy in America

Several years ago, when I was still at Penn State, I learned of Phillip McReynolds’ film project on American Philosopher (or philosophers in America) through my dissertation advisor (and McReynolds’ wife), Shannon Sullivan. Since then, I’ve seen a few segments of it appear here and there on the internet, but I had yet to see…

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30 Day Song Challenge, Day 2: Your Least Favorite Song

Day 2 of the 30 Day Song Challenge asks for “your least favorite song” and I really thought this one was going to be harder to choose than it actually was. I mean, there are whole genres of music that I don’t like– speed metal, experimental jazz, anything Celtic, the endless musical masturbation of jam…

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30 Day Song Challenge, Day 1: Your Favorite Song

For the month of June, I’m participating in a meme called the 30 Day Song Challenge. I’ll be posting my songs each day to my Facebook profile and Twitter feed, but I thought I’d also post them here on the blog where I have a little more room to explain the why’s and wherefore’s of…

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American Values Project

Here’s a slide show of the images we’ve gotten so far for the American Values Project. The project has it’s own website now, too, where you can submit new photos directly through that site. We’re developing a whole new set of plans for this project (and managing to find some money for it as well!)…

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Segue

It’s been a minute since I updated this blog. There are lots of reasons for that– I was tied up with the American Values Project (and its New York Values iteration) for a while, then the Memphis Grizzlies were in the NBA playoffs, then end-of-the-semester grading was upon me, then graduation and curriculum seminars, etc–…

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“American Values” Goes To The Big City

For those of you who have been following the development of my “American Values” project, I have exciting news: WE’RE TAKING IT TO NEW YORK CITY! On May 7th, curator Tally Beck (of Tally Beck Contemporary) and I will exhibit a slightly-more-limited-in-scope version of the American Values project that we’re calling “New York Values” at…

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New York Values

New Yorkers: How do you make one of the world’s largest cities into a community? First, you show its residents what they have in common. New York is a city of over 8 million people, and each one of them values something. The particulars of what they value may differ dramatically– sometimes even conflict dramatically–…

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More American Values Photos Needed

Well, it looks like my “American Values” project might be about to get a new life. If you don’t already know, I put out a call on this blog several weeks back asking people to snap a photo of themselves naming something that they hold as a value and then to send me their images….

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Yes You Can… Be A Part of the “American Values” Project!

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I want to make another (this time, URGENT) call for submissions to the American Values project. The image to your left is a collage of some of the photos I’ve already recieved. (Go ahead and click on the image. It’s a pretty impressive collection, if I…

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