Todd R. Long

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TODD R. LONG

Philosophy Department | College of Liberal Arts | California Polytechnic State University

tlong@calpoly.edu

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I'm an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Philosophy Department at Cal Poly, which is located on California's beautiful Central Coast (halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles) in San Luis Obispo, which was recently rated the third best place to live in America.

During my 2009-10 sabbatical leave, I was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. I am married to the lovely Sigrid, with whom I have two children.

When I'm not doing philosophy, I enjoy hanging with the family at the beach, fishing, ball sports (baseball, basketball, football, tennis), listening to music, good eats & drinks with friends, making wine with colleagues, and managing the Chocolate Chimps (the best fantasy baseball franchise on our dear planet).

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Lists of my favorite things

Extracurricular Writings

Truth Troubles? (letter to the editor of O Magazine about the January 2002 'truth' issue)

Review of The Fellowship of the Ring (movie review)

Renting Video is Not American Right (guest contributor to Hattiesburg American, 1996)

SuperLinks

MUSICIANS (and albums I like)

The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds, Sounds of Summer [a good compilation])
The Beatles (all of them)
T-Bone Burnett (Proof Through the Night, Trap Door, Truth Decay, T-Bone Burnett)
Hayes Carll
Bruce Cockburn (Humans, Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws, Stealing Fire, Nothing But a Burning Light)
Elvis Costello (King of America, Imperial Bedroom, The Delivery Man, Almost Blue)
Marshall Crenshaw (Marshall Crenshaw, Downtown, Mary Jean & 9 Others)
Rodney Crowell (The Outsider, Fate's Right Hand)
The Derailers (Reverb Deluxe, Full Western Dress)
Bob Dylan (Blonde on Blonde, Love & Theft, Highway 61 Revisited, Oh Mercy, Blood on the Tracks, Infidels, Shot of Love, Saved, Slow Train Coming)
Steve Earle (Train A Comin', The Mountain, Transcendental Blues, El Corazon, I Feel Alright)
Steve Forbert (Alive on Arrival, Mission of the Crossroad Palms, Streets of This Town, Jackrabbit Slim, Rocking Horse Head, The American in Me, Evergreen Boy)
Merle Haggard (All Night Long, Back to the Barrooms, Pancho & Lefty [w/Willie Nelson], If I Could Only Fly, Serving 190 Proof, A Taste of Yesterday's Wine [w/George Jones])
Mark Heard (Dry Bones Dance, Satellite Sky, Second Hand, High Noon [a good compilation])
The Hold Steady (Boys and Girls in America, Stay Positive)
Jason & the Scorchers (Fervor, Lost & Found, Still Standing)
John Mellencamp (The Lonesome Jubilee, Uh Huh, Scarecrow)
Buddy (& Julie) Miller (Buddy & Julie Miller, Universal United House of Prayer)
Willie Nelson (Red Headed Stranger, Stardust, Waylon & Willie [w/ Waylon Jennings], Pancho & Lefty [w/ Merle Haggard])
North Mississippi Allstars (Shake Hands With Shorty, Phantom 51, Polaris)
Old 97s (Too Far To Care, Fight Songs, Satellite Rides, Hitchhike to Rhome, Wreck Your Life)
Buck Owens (I've Got a Tiger By the Tail, Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (Damn the Torpedoes, Southern Accents, Full Moon Fever, Into the Great Wide Open, Wildflowers)
Sam Phillips another good site here (Martinis & Bikinis, Cruel Inventions, Indescribable Wow)
Elvis Presley (Elvis Presley, The Sun Sessions)
Radiohead(OK Computer, Kid A, Hail to the Thief)
R.E.M. (Reckoning, Murmur, Fables of the Reconstruction, Life's Rich Pageant, Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Up, Reveal)
Rolling Stones (Tattoo You, Exile on Main St., Forty Licks [a good compilation])
Billy Joe Shaver (Tramp on Your Street, The Earth Rolls On)
Todd Snider (Happy to Be Here, Songs for the Daily Planet, Viva Satellite)
Son Volt (Trace, Wideswing Tremolo, Straightaways)
Bruce Springsteen (The River, Nebraska, Born in the USA, Born to Run, Tunnel of Love)
Sufjan Stevens
Matthew Sweet (Girlfriend, 100% Fun, Altered Beast, In Reverse)
Richard Thompson (Rumor & Sigh, Shoot Out The Lights [w/ Linda Thompson])
U2 (October, War, The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, All That You Can't Leave Behind)
The Waterboys (A Pagan Place, Fisherman's Blues, This is the Sea)
Webb Wilder (It Came From Nashville, Hybrid Vigor, Acres of Suede)
Gillian Welch (Revival, Hell Among the Yearlings)
Wilco (A.M., Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Being There, Summerteeth)
Will & The Bushmen (Gawk, Suck on This, Will & the Bushmen) & Will Kimbrough (This, Home Away)
Lucinda Williams (Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Essence, Lucinda Williams)
Peter Wolf (Sleepless, Midnight Souvenirs)
Dwight Yoakam (Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.; Gone; If There Was a Way; Tomorrow's Sounds Today; dwightyoakamacoustic.net; A Long Way Home)
Warren Zevon (Excitable Boy, Warren Zevon, Life'll Kill Ya, The Wind)