{"id":6408,"date":"2012-06-15T06:47:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T10:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2015-05-23T21:42:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T01:42:16","slug":"podcast-here-at-the-western-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-here-at-the-western-world","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Here at the Western World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories \u2013 season 2 episode 7
\nTom May – Here at the Western World (The Piraeus Tapes II)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Back-to-back episodes of The Virtual Memories Show!<\/strong><\/em> Who’d a’ thunk it?<\/p>\n

Around Memorial Day, I took a little vacation to my alma mater, St. John’s College, for a seminar on Flannery O’Connor, and got to interview two of my favorite tutors: David Townsend<\/a> and Tom May. Because they both had so much to talk about, I decided to split this month’s show into two parts.<\/p>\n

\"St.<\/p>\n

This episode contains my conversation with Tom May, the first St. John’s tutor I ever met (that’s him, conducting the freshmen chorus, above). I find Mr. May — sorry, but I can’t get over those Johnnie traditions — fascinating and intensely thoughtful, and I was glad to learn some of his history, how he’s seen the college change during his three decades-plus as a tutor, how we should never read a book for the first time, and\u00a0and he had to get a note from his priest to read books from the Vatican’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It all makes sense here:<\/p>\n

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Check out the previous episode<\/a>, in which tutor David Townsend talks about education and the American project. There are also episodes with tutors Peter Kalkavage<\/a> (2014) and Eva Brann<\/a> (2013)!<\/p>\n

Follow The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on iTunes<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Tumblr<\/a>, and RSS<\/a>!<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in seeing some of Annapolis, check out my photoset from that trip<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"St.<\/a><\/p>\n

Credits: This episode\u2019s music is Steely Dan’s <\/em>Here at the Western World. I recorded the intro on a Blue Yeti mic, and the conversation with was recorded on a pair of Blue Encore 100 mics, feeding into a Zoom H4N recorder. (Also, there’s a Flannery O’Connor pun that I won’t bother to explain.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories \u2013 season 2 episode 7 Tom May – Here at the Western World (The Piraeus Tapes II) Back-to-back episodes of The Virtual Memories Show! Who’d a’ thunk it? Around Memorial Day, I took a little vacation to my alma mater, St. John’s College, for a seminar on Flannery O’Connor, and got to interview … <\/p>\n

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