Misanthropic humanism

Long ago, someone here at LiveJournal -- maybe a member of the_zero community, maybe not -- told me that he (or she, but I really think it was a he) had used one or more of Andrew Vachss' novels as assigned readings in a college course. The purpose was to present to the students an example of an internally consistent ethical framework that arose without any religious context surrounding it.

If you're that teacher, and you see this, please drop me a reply. I might wish to consult with you for an academic project.

-- Jason Tippitt

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Dancing Mattress Productions (pop culture and podcast blog)
Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects (more traditional, but also more sporadic, blog)
Obligatory Twitter account
Increasingly irrelevant Facebook account
Google+ profile with which I have a love-hate relationship

Jason Tippitt is alive and well and living near Boston, though he's yet to make it back over into the city itself since flying in and riding a cab out the evening before Labor Day.

Places to find me:

Dancing Mattress Productions (podcast and pop culture blog)
Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects (Blogger)
Unitarian Universalist Podcasts+ (directory as blog, or blog as directory)
Obligatory Facebook page
Obligatory Twitter presence

You can read my new blog here at LJ, if so inclined -- or at least get a notice of each new entry, rather, with the option to click over and read the whole thing -- by adding jason_r_tippitt to your f(r)iends list. Thanks to my brother adgy for setting it up.

Last post was about famous people from Boston, where I'll be heading this fall. Coming up soon: The first in an occasional series on what I dub the Perfect Albums, those rare musical works where every single track is essential to the whole and pulls its weight fully.

De-lurking long enough to once again mention that I have a new blog at Blogger. If someone wanted to create a syndicated feed for it (hint, hint), here's the feed URL:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/DeepTh…

If that doesn't work, going to that site will offer you a link to "see feed XML," and that file might be the one you need to plug in at the place to make a feed. (I no longer have a paid account, so I can't do it.) If you do so -- name it "Tippittspeak" or something like that -- leave a reply here with the name you give the account, and I'll check back in the next few days and post a later entry linking to that account (and thanking you) in case people miss it in the replies.

Graduate school is a go, assuming I get the full Stafford Loan amount on top of what Andover Newton Theological School has extended to me. I'm on track to move to the Boston area about Sept. 1; orientation starts Sept. 10, and classes begin Sept. 12.

I'll be pursuing a Master of Arts in Theological Studies with an emphasis on psychology and religion, which I intend as a predecessor to pursuing a master's or doctoral degree in counseling psychology.

I deleted a few of the communities I'd created which hadn't seen activity in a year or two. The following, I just posted to chalice_circle, journalists and the_zero (where adgy and shaunathan and the moderator for Andrew Vachss' official site are all listed as maintainers of the community).

This reiterates places you can find me online, whether you're interested in my podcast or couldn't care less about it. I'll leave

I'm departing LJ, formally, after having long since stopped using it on a regular basis. My paid subscription would end in a few weeks, and I've already let the extra-userpics option lapse -- with my job being terminated in April (thanks to Gannett's ongoing corporate suicide through consolidations and layoffs), and with hopes of starting graduate school somewhere this fall, paying money for an account I no longer actively use seems kinda silly.

I'll be deleting my account by month's end.

Other people are listed as moderators and maintainers of this community, as listed on the community information page. I leave it in good hands.

You can find me at Facebook (where I spend most of my online time now), on Twitter (third time may be the charm), and -- new but definitely something for which I have big plans -- at a new Blogspot blog where I'll be discussing any number of subjects, like I did at LJ when I still felt joy in this place.

Additionally, I'm still podcasting -- visit the Libsyn site for just the show, or the Dancing Mattress Productions blog at Blogger for extra content like my celebrity crush list and such.

Thanks for your friendship, and I hope to see some of you at these other places on the Interwebz. Be well.