Bonus movie Friday: Let me Rest in Peace
Hey Cromrades, my #SSAweek Blogathon contribution day is rapidly approaching. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve pledged to learn, record, and post songs that you request, for a minimum donation of...
View ArticleSongs in the key of H(umanism)
As you may know (and should certainly know if you followed my Blogathon Songathon yesterday), one of the many hats I wear is that of musician. I am no great talent, to be sure, but I’ve got some...
View Article“How come there’s no post today?!”
Because instead of doing the responsible thing and staying home last night, I went and did this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FwF5Odqf_Y Talib Kweli is an unbelievably skilled emcee, and when I saw...
View ArticleIs this racist? You can bank on it.
Part of the challenge of incorporating anti-racism into mainstream skepticism is that skepticism has been primarily focused on developing techniques of inquiry honed in material sciences (by which I...
View ArticleMovie Friday: Back for Good
As part apology, part self-aggrandizing vanity, here is a bonus movie on this Friday, to reassure you that my Friday movie posts are back for good. Like this article? Follow me on Twitter!
View ArticleVanity post: Even Handed Odds
Some of you may know that I played in a band called Even Handed Odds for a while. The band has since broken up (meaning that we no longer play our own music), but we still play covers on occasion down...
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Movie Friday: Where I Get it From
A year and a half ago, I got an e-mail out of the blue from my father, telling me that he had started learning the saxophone. Dad’s in a gradual state of growing retirement, meaning that he still works...
View ArticleMovie Friday: Voices United for Mali
Music has been, and continues to be, an integral part of my life. I picked up my first musical instrument at age 6, and since then there hasn’t been a time when I wasn’t doing something musical in my...
View Article“Accidental” racism and intentional brilliance
Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows what my position is on “intent” when it comes to things like racism and misogyny. Intent lies on an orthogonal axis to racism – someone doing something...
View ArticleMovie Friday: Don’t Dream It’s Over
Part of the reason I haven’t been writing as much is because I have been playing more guitar. I recently bought a fancy new effects pedal from Line 6, and I have been learning to master it and...
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