Last time on WISP, I talked about a horrible game I found super traumatic. This time, I’d like to talk about a marvelous game I…
Why I Stopped Playing Dark Souls
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Last time on WISP, I talked about a horrible game I found super traumatic. This time, I’d like to talk about a marvelous game I…
Imitating Aristotle leads us to conclude that reality is in the middle. And we should imitate Aristotle. Down with reductionism and its opposite!
It does, and everyone (from Plato and Aristotle to you) agrees. In this post, we explore the various ways of dividing reality into different levels.
We’ve got one more saxophone revival song left to do, but I’ve got a different issue on my mind today, so please forgive a quick…
Yesterday, I pointed out how the instrument I generally loathe — the saxophone — has made a comeback in the 2010s. The 80s were the…
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Green Day’s “When I Come Around” went #1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, the first week of January, 1995. It stayed there for seven…
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The third classic Christmas Special on TIME’s list of the “10 Greatest” is “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” This means, of course, that we have…
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Beatles Week continues today, with “Can’t Buy Me Love.” This — the third of six Beatles songs we’re doing this week — was #1 for…
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Yesterday we discussed heroes and the Foo Fighters. Today, let’s jump back even further in time to the song that introduced the world to the…
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After taking a two-post break from the Billboard Hot 100 chart, we’re back with this week’s #4 song, “Habits (Stay High)” by Tove Lo. Both…
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During the inaugural week of Top 40 Philosophy, we philosophized about the top 3 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100. Next up was Tove Lo’s “Habits…
The last entry in this week’s Top 40 Philosophy is the current #3 song on Billboard’s Hot 100, Maroon 5’s “Animals.” That’s the lyric video…