housekeeping —
And a happy new year, dear readers. As we celebrate our 8th holiday season together, it’s probably not a bad time to reflect on the generosity and loyalty that so many of you have shown, not to me so much (’cause that’s not necessary or expected) but to the idea and practice of a more […]
One of the reasons for my silence around here lately has been preparation for and travel to this year’s American Academy of Religion conference. Later this morning I’ll be presenting a paper that reflects on my experience in the digital world of southern gospel music. As always when my work turns in these self-reflexive directions, […]
Thanks for all the happy blogbirthday wishes on Avery’s facebook page yesterday. This little experiment in southern gospel in the etherspaces turned seven yesterday.
A wise man has noted that, “Generally speaking, blogging is like shouting into a hurricane: it might make you feel better, but hardly anyone hears you and it rarely has any […]
The iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users will notice that when you open the home page, you will now (or should, at least) see a prompt that will ask you if want to add a shortcut icon for this site to your home screen.
I had asked the interns to look into this option while I […]
So a while back I think mentioned that I was a writing short piece on how to listen to southern gospel. It was for the alumni magazine at the university where I teach (and the how-to column is a standard feature that’s shopped around to various faculty). Anyway, the article is out in the current […]
Over the years, there have been, as far as I can tell, some pretty ridiculous stories circulating out there about me. I’ve heard the one about my sanity having been addled by brain cancer, and then the one about my sanity having been addled by AIDS. There’s the one about my having moved to Florida […]
Some of you may have seen a post of this title pop up in your RSS feed a few days ago but then not be anywhere in sight when you tried to click through. That’s because I tried to succumb to peer pressure and sync this site with Avery’s twitter and facebook pages and thought […]
Later this morning I’ll be giving a talk by that title at the NEA Higher Education conference (don’t worry, the confessions aren’t forced or coerced at all; in fact, they’re treating me magnificently, and this year the conference is in Portland, OR, which is officially my new favorite city). The presentation is about the convergence […]
Longtime reader AG writes to Ask Avery:
I wanted to let you know how much I’ve enjoyed reading your blog. As you know I’ve been reading it since you started it several years ago. I’ve laughed at some of the posts, gone out and bought cds as a result of some of the posts […]
I’ll be away for a few days so here’s your chance to take the place over, though lately I have the feeling I’m just being allowed the illusion of control and the inmates are really running the asylum. No matter, now may be a good time to do a bit of housekeeping.
David Bruce Murray is […]
