Turns out 'clammy' does not mean 'like a clam.' They have different 'clam' roots! (That sound the same) One is 'muddy,' and the other is closer to 'clamp.' Now I know!

This email should have been a meeting. I brought cupcakes =(

Language describes the world, but also defines it. If there is no linguistic option for your identity, it is very difficult to assert. This development can have enormous impact!

Next year’s Christmas card

Each holiday, I feel the absence of someone to just take care of me, and let me rest everything for a while. I didn't talk to my mom a lot, but I miss being able to. It's my 4th Christmas without her. If your parents are alive, and you're on decent terms—give them a call for me, would you? 💜

If you say something is 'overengineered,' we are not friends. No one who sneers at thoughtfulness is my friend.

I love when real, useful graphs look like total nonsense out of context

How do you show vocal pitch in comic book text? Cool concepts in here

'Kids just learn things faster' yeah cause they actually try shit out. You're four YouTube videos deep 'learning how to draw,' meanwhile they started drawing.

You know that scene in Enchanted when Amy Adams is like "you make me so... angry!" then giggles, realizing for the first time "I'm angry!" That's Buddhism in a nutshell. Notice all your changing mind-states, pleasant and unpleasant. Smile at them as they come and go.

Modern percussion pieces are the perfect combination of ingenuity, cooperation, and playfulness. Great to watch, great to hear. youtu.be/7MU0-l4XWKU?...

Just choir things: it's concert week and you have a sore deltoid muscle from holding up 150 pages of music in multi-hour stretches

If you want to see more of what composing is actually like, I share notebook pages and track production over on Instagram. Look over my shoulder at what I'm working on!

'Terrible' and 'terrific' share the same root, and both meant 'horrifying' for most of history. 'Terrific' first started to invert in 1888. (Like calling something 'sick' or 'bad' to mean 'cool.') Obviously 'terrifying' is an extremely close variant, but still negative. Funny how language evolves!

I've always loved the power of pure black ink on paper.

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Fletcher-Munson curves? I hardly know her Munson curves!

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

@singfisher.com wonderful puzzle today from oldpigeon!! Such a cool solve!

Spotify Wrapped, Discord Checkpoint, and other year-summaries implicitly gamify one thing: spending your time and attention on their product. These things aren't celebrating your individuality; it's just data. But by putting it in a colorful package, you are encouraged to share and compare...

Any box of chocolates can be an Advent calendar if you want

CUTE

Saying goodbye to my favorite season 🍂 There are still a few desperate leaves clinging to the trees here, but less of them every day.

I also think it's important to keep in mind that despite all corporate claims otherwise, excellent movies and TV shows are only ever the result of the focused labor of a group of artists and craftspeople. Studio mandates curate a slate, but only artists can make it great.

Netflix buying Warner Brothers is the day that Netflix officially becomes the establishment. It is both the day of their ascendancy and also the day that Netflix admits that they are now the incumbent power yearning to be disrupted by whatever comes next.

can squeeze one or two more comms into my schedule before christmas

Current digital technology is designed to 'help' you do things faster than your brain is designed to do them. To juggle more tasks than your mind is designed to juggle. Instead of feeling behind and beholden to your image of efficiency, consider: that image is not naturally human. Find what is.

Hard truth about creating: no one is waiting to give you permission. What is something you wish you were making? Who are you waiting on?

Pretty sick of people online being like 'MY music is BREAKING the RULES' like they're pulling one over on ya. If you still think theory is 'the rules' you have some growing to do. Why does this sound good, and how do I do it consistently? These are the questions theory addresses. No more, no less.

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

When your controller is 3x bigger than the console lol

The link is missing but I think it's here if you want these great pieces! www.inprnt.com/gallery/auru...

Violas and viola players get a bad rap. And I will staunchly defend them. But this is unhinged

About to go into my first film scoring class of the course I'm taking! Aaaaaaa

Lmao too reallll

Everything is vibrating

Daily bunny no.3142 makes all their games co-op

100% correct and accurate list of the 10 worst Christmas songs of all time

Commission🌑🌕🌟👁️

I'm trying to score a mini nature doc to practice! Clips soon. I think I'll do do this once now, and then again after the film scoring course I'm taking. See what I learned =)

"What without you I would be, knows God only, mmmm?" -Yoda singing Beach Boys

I thought I would be exhausted from doing a 3 hour choir rehearsal immediately after my work shift, but it's the best actually

"I hate to be That Guy, but..." - That Guy

I'm excited for my Instagram reel to go up later today =) I tried some new video editing with sheet music and annotations scrolling by of a quick piano sketch. 👇 follow me there if you like! www.instagram.com/a.composed.m...

I saw a gull pecking at a carton of milk, and chuckled. How would he drink the milk, even if he got it? Sometimes we want things without knowing what's really inside them.

The deepest wound of the AI* trend is, to me, that reservation and suspicion has been injected into our viewing of creative work.

I am actually on Instagram posting over-the-shoulder looks at my music notebooks and DAW views! I basically just started, so my posts are floundering tbh 😅 This is where I'm sharing unfinished drafts, music snippets, and asking questions about process. Follow me there!

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

"What without you I would be, knows God only, mmmm?" -Yoda singing Beach Boys

Might write some theme music for this guy. Stay tuned