Hello, just a minor Housekeeping issue concerning the RSS and the journal entries. I figure that they aren’t all that professional sounding, and I want to keep them as frank and blunt as possible so perhaps for the sake of editing, and keeping a separation between a ‘published’ section and a ‘verbal diahrrea’ section, I’ll be excluding the Journal Entries from the Main RSS. Fret not, you can still find all of the entries here, and if you’d like to subscribe to them exclusively, please do so through the about Journal page. Thanks!
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Letters to Nana 6 (Video) from Aaron Russin on Vimeo.
This is the sixth in the series of Letters to Nana highlighting Jeannine and Aaron’s trip to Tokyo in the Winter of 2008. Although there is some amount of preambling in explanation of Tokyo and their trip’s itinerary, there is a slideshow of photos set to music during the last (and better) half of this episode. Tokyo is good, and we recommend going there.
The music used is used without permission, but we’re not really concerned.
+81 - Deerhoof
(Aaron’s Karaoke rendition of Everyday by Buddy Holly)
Tout va pour le mieux dans le pire des mondes - Les Breastfeeders
The Stars of Track and Field - Belle and Sebastian
You can Download Letters to Nana 6 here (Requires Quicktime).
I really enjoyed working on the A Cat Named Schrödinger series on epistemology, and I hope it will continue. However, lately I’ve been interested in how those epistemological commitments explored are expressed and developed as applied to our daily lives. I’ll be calling this new series ‘Holism’, as in developing the ideals to be holistic, or wholly coherent in their application.
This entire blogging project has been more about archiving the development of my thinking in a semi-academic way, taking seriously thought and reasons and history. I am still very much open to it changing. However, after having some time to read and write and work on these ideas, I only have some flimsy understanding of how to apply them in the “real world” (whatever that means). It has, and will continue to be, a drafting process for something larger. Books, papers, theses, etc. so please bear with me. As the reader, I hope you feel a compulsion to not let me get away with anything. I like to consider this entire experience as a kind of directed reading with Aaron, and I’d like to develop it to be even more interesting in that regard. Continue reading ‘Holism’
This is a bit of a guide I’ve put together for a better use of the dreaded iTunes. Unfortunately, it’s a necessary evil we all have to deal with like grocery shopping or dental hygiene. This guide is suited to me personally, and the way I like to take in my media, so please keep this in mind when reading. Hopefully, you’ll be able to get something out of these and adjust the recommendations to your tastes, enjoy!
If you’re like me, you have a lot of podcasts. I have more than a hundred subscriptions of both audio and video, which makes it too difficult to navigate in my iPod, and it’s too many clicks to sort through the ‘new if its blue’ interface. Fortunately, the Smart Playlists provide some decent solutions to this. Continue reading ‘Living with iTunes: Podcast Management’
Doesn’t anyone else find it ironic that it’s both the first time that a woman and a black man have a chance for office, but for either of them to accomplish such an historical human triumph, they have to fight amongst themselves to achieve a spot to contend with yet another old which guy?
This, although funny, is asked in all seriousness. In thinking of it over the past few weeks, the ‘New Holy Trinity’ of Race, Class and Gender, I’ve been questioning Clinton’s legitimacy in particular. Legitimacy, not as in dishonesty or deception, but in the commitment to what she as a female running to be the President of the United States of America means to her own social and historical context. Continue reading ‘Is Hilary Clinton A Woman?’
The Journal entries can now be found by clicking on the navigation link on the sidebar. I figure that for the most part, daily journal updates take up a lot of space on the main page, and there are posts that deserve more opportunity for discussion that need more screen time. Or not? How many people really want to keep track of when I shower, and what I eat every day. There will be a digest of the journal entries every week, and of course they are still showing up in your RSS feeds. I hope I’ve made it easy enough to understand, and if you have any other suggestions I’d love to hear them.
This is the 5th Letter to Nana from Japan in which Aaron and Jeannine travel to Kyoto during the Winter of 2008 and share some of their photos and video.
The music in this video is used without permission. Sorry?
Xavier Rudd - Green Spandex
Jose Gonzales - Heartbeats
The Weakerthans - Our Retired Explorer
You can Download Letters to Nana 5 here (Requires Quicktime).
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