30 Day Song Challenge, Day 10: A Song That Makes You Cry
My pick today, perhaps not surprisingly, is a song sung by one of the most heartwrenchingly beautiful female voices in the history of song. Unless you’re a diehard fan...
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I posted my first blog post in 2006 on the first site domain I had ever purchased. I chose the name “ReadMoreWriteMoreThinkMoreBeMore” for two reasons: (a) it was the first on a list of rules that I gave to my students every semester and, (b) it seemed like an unwieldly and clunky-enough site name that no one would ever try to buy it.
I was wrong about that second part. After almost 15 years of blogging on that site, the domain name was bought out from under me in 2022. I did my level best to try to recover it (even buy it back!), but it was a heavily-trafficked site at that point and I had to eventually come to terms with the fact that this particular digital garden of ideas, that I had tended and nurtured for so long, and which I loved, now belonged to someone else.
It’s taken some time for me to get all of that content transferred to this site, but it’s here now. Because I know I have lost many of the internet’s links that traced back to it, I’ve been working a lot behind the scenes to redirect as much of the old traffic as I can to this new site. I’m also trying to organize that archive to make it more easily searchable, but that’s slow and tedious work.
At any rate, it’s all here now., and I’ve “tagged” all of the old RMWMTMBM posts in a way that most closely approximates their original categorizations, so I hope you can find whatever you might be looking for using the tag cloud below.
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30 Day Song Challenge, Day 2: A Song That Helps Clear Your Head
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
30 Day Song Challenge, 30 Day Song Challenge 2014, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive
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My head often needs “clearing” and, as far as I’ve been able to tell, music is the only thing that can do that. For others, the cure for a...
30 Day Song Challenge, Day 1: A Song That Makes You Happy
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
30 Day Song Challenge, 30 Day Song Challenge 2014, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive
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There are about two dozen songs that every single R&B band in Memphis plays every time they perform. Whether you’re on Beale Street, or in a local juke joint,...
UC Student-Workers Union #HoldTheLine Against Unfair Labor Practices
Today and tomorrow, student-workers are going on strike to protest unfair labor practices (ULPs) by the University of California after its administrators refused to meet their (very reasonable) bargaining demands and...
Spillit Memphis: The Hilarious and Heartbreaking Beauty of Storytelling Animals
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Memphis, Philosophy, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive, Weak Humanism
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I had the very good fortune to attend my first Spillit event last night in (local photographer/visual anthropologist, Jamie Harmon‘s) Amurica studio space. Spillit is one of the newer...
“But Quiet, Be Quiet a Minute”: On The Death of Fred Phelps
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues
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The news has just been released that Rev. Fred Phelps, founder and lifelong shepherd of the Westboro Baptist Church (in Topeka, Kansas) has died at the age of 84. ...
On “Solidarity”
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues
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Let’s face it: exercising solidarity is tricky business, not the least of which is because “solidarity” itself is a tricky concept, which requires the subordination of real differences (across...
Please Do NOT Revise Your Tone
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues
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As some of you already know, I am also one of the bloggers at NewAPPS. I’m re-posting here a piece co-authored by Edward Kazaian and I that appeared this...
Grading War Letters to Home, Day 1
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
GradingWarLetterstoHome, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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These are the letters from the first day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory....
Grading War Letters to Home, Day 6
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
GradingWarLetterstoHome, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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These are the letters from the sixth day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory....
Grading War Letters to Home, Day 5
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
GradingWarLetterstoHome, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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These are the letters from the fifth day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory....
Grading War Letters to Home, Day 9
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
GradingWarLetterstoHome, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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These are the letters from the ninth (and final) day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for...
Grading War Letters to Home, Day 8
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
GradingWarLetterstoHome, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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These are the letters from the eighth (and penultimate) day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for...
WORKING IN MEMPHIS: A Documentary
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Memphis, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive, Working in Memphis Documentary
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At long last, I’ve finally gotten all my (administrative, bureaucratic and legal) ducks in a row and I am now able to share with you the documentary film that...
Dr. J’s 2013 Year in Music
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
2013 Year in Review Lists, Dr. J's Lists, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive, Year in Review Lists
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Today, I begin my annual Year in Review lists for 2013. (If you’re feeling nostalgic, you can check out my past lists for the 2010 Year in Review, 2011...
MEMPHIS ON THE DOWNBEAT: Five Reasons to Support Ghost Town Blues Band in the 2014 IBC
This is the first installment of my series Memphis on the Downbeat, an inside look into Memphis music by a bona fide Memphian and music-lover. This week Memphis hosts...
Memphis on the Downbeat: Loud, Live and Better Than Ever
One of the things that I’ve resolved to do in 2014 is devote more space on this blog to Memphis, THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WHOLE UNITED STATES. (C’mon,...
Dr. J’s 2013 Year in Politics
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
2013 Year in Review Lists, Dr. J's Lists, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues, Year in Review Lists
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It’s time for the next installment of my 2013 Year in Review Lists: the 2013 Year in Politics. Each December that I do this, it gets increasingly difficult to...
The Problem With Echo Chambers
Here’s one thing I will presume that we can all agree upon: every single one of us likes to have our views, positions, arguments and preferences confirmed by others. ...
Grading War Letters to Home, Day 2
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
GradingWarLetterstoHome, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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These are the letters from the second day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory....
Grading War Letters to Home, Day 7
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
GradingWarLetterstoHome, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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These are the letters from the seventh day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory.11...
Grading War Letters to Home, Winter 2013 (The Unabridged Collection)
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
GradingWarLetterstoHome, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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Preliminary note: If you’re here because you’re checking back for updates on the Grading War archive, rest assured that new letters are still being added as they appear. However,...
Philosophy’s Next Generation of Auteurs
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Digital Humanities, Film, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching, Thinking in Images
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Once again this semester, I assigned short-film projects to the students in my Existentialism course. And once again, the products of that assignment (which I only just finished grading)...
Grading War Letters to Home, Day 3
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
GradingWarLetterstoHome, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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These are the letters from the third day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory....
Help Stop the Hastening of Death in Tennessee
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Memphis, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Weak Humanism
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I was recently asked by a colleague, Dr. Lisa Guenther (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University), to add my signature to an open letter to Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, petitioning him to...
Grading War Letters to Home, Day 4
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
GradingWarLetterstoHome, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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These are the letters from the fourth day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory....
Female Brains Are Prettier, More Fun At Parties, Less Tasty
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues
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I almost titled this “Once More Into The Breach, Part Deux” in reference to my Once More Into The Breach, Dear Friends post from last week, which criticized the...
Remember Who The Enemy Is
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Philosophy, Politics, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive
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[Disclaimer: I haven’t read any of the books in Suzanne Collins’ wildly popular Hunger Games trilogy, though I did see the first movie version of that trilogy (The Hunger...
Once More Into The Breach, Dear Friends
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues
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Prompted by a recent piece on newAPPS, I’m (somewhat reluctantly) forced to acknowledge the renewed attention to a not-at-all-new phenomenon in the world of Philosophy over the last couple...
Tolerance Is Not A Virtue
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching, Women and Gender Issues
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Let me be clear at the outset: when I say that tolerance is not a virtue, I’m saying that as a philosopher for whom virtue has a conceptually substantive...
Working in Memphis: A Documentary (Part 2)
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Film, Memphis, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive, Working in Memphis Documentary
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Vince Johnson of the Plantation AllStars So, I promised to update you readers occasionally on the progress of the documentary film that my student Sophie Osella and I are...
Not With A Bang, But A Whimper: RIP Wild Bill’s Memphis
Alas, it is with great sadness that I report that the long-anticipated but much-dreaded inevitability in my life finally came to pass. Wild Bill’s is officially closed. The doors...
Genius: Generative or Generic?
I had the very good fortune of seeing historian Darrin McMahon (Florida State University), author of the recently published Divine Fury: A History of Genius, deliver a lecture last...
Tweeting #SPEP13
“SPEP is not a mini-APA.” –Anthony Steinbock, 25 October 2013 That quote is from a plenary address delivered this past weekend by Tony Steinbock, Executive Co-Director of the Society...
AltAc, TransAc, PostAc and Just Plain Old ACK!
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow published a piece a few days ago in the NYT entitled “The Repurposed Ph.D.,” which served as my first introduction to the neologism “post-academic.” The abbreviated (and...
Hate Crimes, Complicated: Or, Why It’s So Hard To Do What’s Right, Even When You’re “Right”
I’ve never been in a fist-fight in my entire life but, yesterday, I received my first black eye. I got my black eye roughly 48 hours ago now, on...
Doctor Nobody, or: How I Learned to Stop Sitting Passively By and Actually Fight the MOOC Machine
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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As just-another college professor, it’s hard not to feel like the war against MOOCs is more than a little bit like the War on Drugs, or the War or...
31 Day Film Challenge, Day 13: A Film With Your Least Favorite Actor
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
31 Day Film Challenge, Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive
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Today’s is the easiest pick of the 31 Day Film Challenge by a long-shot. I really, truly, deeply and categorically cannot stand Matt Damon. As much as I wish...
31 Day Film Challenge, Day 12: A Film With Your Favorite Actor/Actress
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
31 Day Film Challenge, Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive
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So, I know I chose both a Jeff Bridges and a Coen brothers film just a couple of days ago, but I can’t help it. I’m doing it again...
31 Day Film Challenge, Day 11: The Best Sports Film
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
31 Day Film Challenge, Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive
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About eight months ago, when I was planning the syllabus for last semester’s Philosophy of Film course, I had exactly the same problem I’m having today trying to determine...
31 Day Film Challenge, Day 10: A Film From Your Favorite Director
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
31 Day Film Challenge, Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive
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My “favorite Director” is, technically speaking, two directors: the brothers Ethan and Joel Coen. Although they are separate people, of course, who have talents distinct from one another, it...
31 Day Film Challenge, Day 9: Best Documentary Film
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
31 Day Film Challenge, Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive
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As I mentioned a few days ago, I am in the process of making my first documentary film this summer, so I probably thought a good deal more about...
31 Day Film Challenge, Day 8: A Film That You Can Quote A Line From
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
31 Day Film Challenge, Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive
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Like a lot of other people doing the 31 Day Film Challenge, I can quote “a” line from most film’s that I’ve seen. I can quote several lines from...
Working In Memphis: A Documentary
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
Film, Memphis, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive, Working in Memphis Documentary
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I thought I might interrupt the 31 Day Film Challenge for a moment to update you readers on my own little adventure into film-making. I’ve undertaken a project this...
30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 28: A Song You Like By a Band/Artist You First Discovered in the Last Year
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
30 Day Song Challenge, 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), 30 Day Song Challenge 2014, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive
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It’s funny how the process of “discovering” an artist or band happens sometimes. Nowadays, when almost every venue for purchasing or pirating music auto-recommends artists/bands to you, it’s very...
30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 26: A Song By a Band/Artist You’d Like To Have Dinner With
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
30 Day Song Challenge, 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), 30 Day Song Challenge 2014, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive
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I’m going to assume that today’s prompt means for me to pick among living artists/bands, partly because it would be really creepy to have dinner with a dead person,...
30 Day Song Challenge (The Seuqel), Day 30: A Song You Never Get Tired Of, No Matter How Many Times You Hear it
June 9, 2024
Leigh M. Johnson
30 Day Song Challenge, 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), 30 Day Song Challenge 2014, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive
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Today marks the end of the 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel) and, although I’ve complained about the prompts several times this month, I think this prompt for the...
30 Day Song Challenge, Day 9: A Song That Makes You Want To Dance
There aren’t many Michael Jackson songs that don’t make me want to dance. But I’m a sucker for the “Little Michael” songs in particular, before he was “MJ” or “The...