@michaelmunnik.bsky.social
Canadian pilgrim in Wales. Sociologist of media and religion, senior lecturer at Cardiff University, Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK. Musical side-hustle at https://michaelmunnik.ca/
Crikey.
This Song Changed My Life has a conceit I completely get behind: stories about music as a catalyst for personal change.
Here's mine, about getting wooed from hip-hop to teen angst and distorted guitars by Aerosmith.
www.thissongchangedmylife.com/p/aerosmith-...
This tickled me (posted by Rhoda Bracewell on the other place)
Love that guy.
My brother and I were like chalk and cheese. So whatever he liked, I didn't. Simple as. That included guitar music... until Aerosmith’s "Livin' on the Edge" came on the radio.
(My brother turned 50 on Tuesday, btw. I'm absolutely fine. Thx for asking.)
www.thissongchangedmylife.com/p/aerosmith-...
Do not like.
NEW WRITING: A personal essay on Aerosmith's "Livin' on the Edge" as the unexpected hook that pulled me into guitar music and, from there, making some of my own. Full of brotherly love and prejudices waiting to be exploded.
For This Song Changed My Life www.thissongchangedmylife.com/p/aerosmith-...
Wise decision!
We've FOUR shortlistings at the British Book Awards @thebookseller.com – Amaani in publicity for Publicity Campaign of the Year, Rafi in Art for Designer of the Year, and Canongate for both Independent Publisher, and overall Publisher of the Year!
www.thebookseller.com/british-book...
Llongyfarchiadau - both to the team and to your clear personal leadership and skill that has driven this success.
Look - you influenced yourself!
Good Turkish food is hard to beat. A close tie with Mexican for me.
Adroitly done, sir.
The best part about staffing the departmental student satisfaction survey completion party is having lots of time to evaluate which bag of Starmix Haribos is the lowest ratio of green things to cola bottles, then opening it and eating them.
Happens to me all the time with those drop-down lists.
MISLAID BOOKS now has a bluesky account. @mislaidbooks.bsky.social
Be grand if you could give it a follow.
That's what we all said to each other over the breakfast table when Mulroney introduced them: "what is this woke nonsense?"
Sorry you have to do this to someone's project, but it sounds like the right call. "Situated in the field" is so important for scholarship - it makes the findings make sense.
Stitched inside teddy bears.
Hard agree. As a former broadcast journalist myself and a j-school grad, it was embarrassing to listen to. It reeked of "maybe this is the killer interview that will bring down a government - well done, me!"
☝️THIS☝️
Because I am a bad person:
“Woke badger fiver” scans perfectly - *perfectly* - into “Guantanamera”.
And now it’s in your head.
🎶Woke badger fiver
You got a woke badger fiver
Woke badger fiiiiii-ii-ver
You got a woke badger fiiiiiiver…🎶
Oooh, "Young Ned" was a favourite of mine to play when I was in a Celt-punk band mid-00s. Hard spirit.
When I wrote "The Ballad of Leonard Peltier" on Trump's inauguration day, I worried that lines like "the day democracy died" & "a White House full of liars, toadies, and white supremacists" was over the top. Within a week, it was clear I was on safe ground. michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/track/the-ba...
Here's one reason I appreciate Talarico. Experimental research finds when self-identifying Christian leaders say "I'm a Christian and Christian nationalism is bad news for everyone," it can get those movable people in the middle to distance themselves from it. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
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I've had them refused at King's Cross Station, where trains journey north to Scotland. It's just incredible.
At least he writes in complete sentences.
In which I discuss Butterscotch Crumblecakes playing me in the film of my life and the dream of singing with Linda Ronstadt (I know, I know). A fun li'l interview with Newport City Radio on their Love Live Music Day and making my tune their Record of the Week. youtu.be/31OyIDTJlVk?...
There's a certain type for which that concession just will not stand.
New drinking game: have a drink every time I say "fantastic" in this interview. It's under 8 minutes - how bad could it be? youtu.be/31OyIDTJlVk?...
So, while there is no video for "It Comes to This" currently, there *is* a video of me chatting on the couch with Danny from Newport City Radio about, among other things, the song. Shout out to my mom and dad for playing 45s for me and my bruv. www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Oy...