Current* conditions near Allouez Township, MI:

Who wants to listen to aleatoric choral music?? That's right, you do!!

I had a great time talking to the members of @faetooth.bsky.social this evening, and I'm excited to be working on a @thetonearm.com piece about their music that will come out in a couple weeks!

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:

this song is great, the music video is outstanding www.youtube.com/watch?v=nytv...

Five years and 21 songs into 'Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs,' Saintseneca's Zac Little unveils an album that mirrors the cycle of a planetary system, its melodies pulled into orbit around a central landscape. @damienjoyce.bsky.social digs in. Two Moons Over Columbus — Saintseneca's World of Song:

the podcast and the website — now officially two hearts that beat as one → podcast.thetonearm.com/

"I don't care about basketball but I'll bring it up in order to make a seemingly insightful point about a completely normal aspect of college basketball that has been the norm for decades"

not being dramatic when i say this is why independent music journalism is meant to exist www.dontrocktheinbox.com/james-talley...

I went to AMS for the first (and probably last) time last November because the late Charles Garrett invited me to be on a panel he organized prior to his death (also, Chicago is an easy trip) My job does not provide me funding for conference travel, nor does research factor into my job performance

Once more, I am posting in search of fiction recommendations - I really enjoyed Hernan Diaz's "Trust" and am looking for good writing and engrossing storytelling that is less demanding than my beloved "Der Zauberberg" (which is mentioned in "Trust", btw) I'm open to just about any genre

I'm finally spending time with Liz Pelly's "Mood Machine" in search of material to share with one of my classes as in-class readings

this repost is brought to you by being home with Gerald on my own while Shana is working today guess who is having Samyang Buldak Carbonara and frozen potstickers for lunch??

This sounds …… hella illegal

has the chronicle or inside higher ed published anything about how universities can/should support food insecure students now that POTUS has taken steps to make food insecurity more widespread across the country?

props to the authors of the motion demanding a more comprehensive GenAI policy on campus, it is written very thoroughly - though, I disagree with the premise that GenAI offers "significant promise" for the pursuit of knowledge

there is an exciting faculty senate vote at UM this week

I am home with sickly Gerald all day - I had to convert a unit-concluding, in-class discussion for my T/TR class into a writing assignment I don't like when childcare impacts my teaching, but I'm grateful that I'm generally able to be flexible and that today was not a trickier day for that

SPOUSE: I have to work late Thursday OUTER MONOLOGUE: I am going to miss you INNER MONOLOGUE: I am going to eat something very stupid

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

wow, they found a way to ask "are women funny?" about all work and then they decided asking that question was the best use of their time

The silver lining is that, because he turned 4 today, he is able to have a larger dose of ibuprofen

I was close to falling asleep but Gerald woke up and called for me over the monitor Turns out he has a fever, so I will be hanging out with sick Gerald all day tomorrow

speaking of good songs... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNt...

this song is good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ThP...

Current* conditions near South Haven, MI:

this song is good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Hb...

I'm doing an exciting interview for an upcoming @thetonearm.com piece, I can't wait to get to work on it!

When you're kid asks, "Dad, please make me Bechemel with cheese" That's a-Mornay

this song is good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xT...

this song is good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymhP...

the resolution to this story is that I put the incorrect date for our final class session on the syllabus (I conflated this T/TR class's calendar with my M/W classes) so this student was genuinely confused about when the class ended

It's interesting to me that my brother and his partner who live in Manhattan - who scolded me in March 2024 when I told them I voted "uncommitted" in the Democratic presidential primary in protest of the Biden administration's support of Israel - voted for Zohran and supported Lander in the primary

Seriously, goat is delicious

Seen near a UM frat - these kids have expensive taste in beer!

One of my former employers takes on my current employer

not good to receive a "Budget Update" email from the dean of the college (within the larger university) you teach for

very brazen for a student to email me asking if they need to attend the final class session of the term because they are hoping to be on vacation at that point

I didn't pack my headphones when I left the house so I'm alone with my thoughts (and Bluesky)

100%. I teach this theory in Labor Law during a class when we focus on arguable constitutional protections for strikes, and I think it's absolutely correct.

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

US 🤝 UK >> Bad week for sex pests named Andrew <<

My "Race in US Popular Music Class" starts its heavy metal unit next week and I give a 'listening survey' assignment with a range of examples from the 1970s-present I invite #metalsky to reply and suggest metal songs that feel significant but are under-the-radar (like, no Metallica)

one thing we all need to understand what cuts through misinformation, AI slop, deepfakes etc is TALKING to people this campaign worked because they haven't rested until they knocked on everyone's door the lazy, entitled tech broligarchs will never be able to win against informed people

Tomorrow is our younger son Gerald's fourth birthday

If the democrats wanted to win they should try being guided by the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat