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2011 State of the Union Address

January 26, 2011 Leigh M. Johnson Comments Off

Making of the 2011 State of the Union Address

January 25, 2011 Leigh M. Johnson 1 Comment

As Seen in The Memphis Flyer

January 6, 2011 Leigh M. Johnson 1 Comment

This week’s Memphis Flyer apparently has a story about my Why I Chose Memphis series on this blog. I say “apparently” because I am currently in Omaha, NE, at an artists-and-philosophers “Think Tank,” so I haven’t seen the piece myself yet. Someone sent me this link to the Flyer piece, though. So, if you came…

2010 Year In Music

December 18, 2010 Leigh M. Johnson 5 Comments

Let me just be clear at the outset: the following list is not meant to represent the best of 2010’s music in any kind of remotely “objective” sense. This is my list. It represents my year in music. My musical tastes tend toward the rootsy, the groovy and the nostalgic. I prefer simple, but well-constructed,…

2010 Year In Pop Culture

December 15, 2010 Leigh M. Johnson 1 Comment

Right out of the gate, 2010 looked to be a very promising pop culture year. Back in January, at one of the early American Idol auditions, we were introduced to aspiring contestant General Larry Platt, who regaled the judges with his seemingly-improvised yet totally-infectious original composition “Pants on the Ground.” Before America’s favorite non-plussed judge…

2010 Year In Sports

December 13, 2010 Leigh M. Johnson Comments Off

There are still a few weeks left in 2010– and who knows what else may happen… or, ahem, be “leaked”?– so in advance of posting my comprehensive “Year In Review” list, I thought I’d do a few specialized lists. Since the last few weeks of the year are mostly holding-pattern time in sports, it’s the…

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 7

December 6, 2010 Leigh M. Johnson 1 Comment

You may not recognize the reference in the title to this post above . It’s a reference to the the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (a.k.a., “The Logical-Philosophical Treatise”), the only book ever written by eminently influential philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Tractatus consists of seven philosophical propositions, the seventh of which reads:Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must…

Why I Chose Memphis: Anna Marie Hartman Birkedahl

December 5, 2010 Leigh M. Johnson Comments Off

Most Memphians will know our next contributor to the Why I Chose Memphis series as “Anna Marie Hartman,” the confident and beautiful anchorwoman for WMC Channel 5 News. What you may not know, however, is that when she’s not reporting on the best and worst of Memphis, she’s also a talented singer in The Burnin’…

Groovy, Man

December 3, 2010 Leigh M. Johnson Comments Off

ReadMoreWriteMoreThinkMoreBeMore just passed 70,000 hits! Again, a big THANK YOU to all the readers who keep coming back. Especially those of you who have contributed to the recent Why I Chose Memphis series, which prompted an interview by the Memphis Flyer that I gave today and which will appear in print soon. (Keep those stories…

Entre Nous?: The Merits (and Demerits) of Gossip

December 2, 2010 Leigh M. Johnson 2 Comments

Let me begin by illuminating the obvious: we live in a gossip-obsessed culture. You don’t even have to make all that much of an effort to find yourself more intimately familiar with the very personal details of celebrities, politicians, athletes and other real(ity) pop-culture figures’ lives than you are with those of your own friends…

2011 State of the Union Address

Making of the 2011 State of the Union Address

As Seen in The Memphis Flyer

2010 Year In Music

2010 Year In Pop Culture

2010 Year In Sports

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 7

Why I Chose Memphis: Anna Marie Hartman Birkedahl

Groovy, Man

Entre Nous?: The Merits (and Demerits) of Gossip

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