RMWMTMBM Archive

30 Day Song Challenge, Day 9: A Song You Can Dance To

First of all, let me give dance credit where dance credit is due. The woman to the left is the BEST DANCER I’ve ever met in my life. She’s a friend of mine and a regular at Wild Bill’s juke joint here in Memphis, my very favorite place in the world for dancing. (A close…

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30 Day Song Challenge, Day 8: A Song You Know All The Words To

I’ll begin with an apology for today’s 30 Day Song Challenge selection. I’m aware that it may seem a little like cheating (and a LOT like shameless self-promotion) to choose one of my own songs as the “song I know all the words to.” In fact, it may not even be true. As most people…

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30 Day Song Challenge, Day 7: A Song That Reminds You Of A Certain Event

The process of determining today’s selection for the 30 Day Song Challenge was an interesting venture, but I do want to complain about the category for a moment first. A song that reminds you of an “event”? What counts as an “event”? I can only imagine that the creators of today’s category must have been…

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30 Day Song Challenge, Day 6: A Song That Reminds You Of Somewhere

It’s Day 6 in the 30 Day Song Challenge, which means that today you get a song that reminds me of somewhere. Today’s song reminds me of State College, Pennsylvania, where I spent four years in graduate school at Penn State University. I’m not going to lie; I was never a lover of State College….

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30 Day Song Challenge, Day 3: A Song That Makes You Happy

The whole process of choosing today’s song was like a little gift from the Universe. I’ve spent most of my time since yesterday ONLY listening to “songs that make me happy” in order to make my selection for the 3rd day of the 30 Day Song Challenge. Seriously, what a fantastic way to spend 24…

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30 Day Song Challenege, Day 4: A Song That Makes You Sad

Those of you who have been with this blog for a while already know that I’ve written a lot about sad songs here before. In fact, there was a moment a few years ago when this blog enjoyed a little celebrity as my site was the first thing that came up when you Googled “sad…

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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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31 Days in Seuss, Day 3: My Music

Back again with the 31 Days in Seuss Challenge for Day 3. Today’s prompt calls for me to versify “my music.” Last month on this blog I participated in the 30 Day Song Challenge, so there’s plenty to read there if you’re interested in my more extended music commentary. (It’s not in verse, though.) Since…

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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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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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