Today I'm at the Pittsburgh Symphony with 3 of my kids. It's my youngest's first time! Today's lineup: Michael Daugherty: Dancing in the Streets (premiere!) Barber: Violin Concerto, Augustin Hadelich, solo Jessie Montgomery: Strum Copland: Appalachian Spring with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater

#Astros win!!!! I sure hope this version of Imai and Burrows are here to stay

Ok, who had Imai getting 6 strikeouts in the first two innings #Astros

#nowspinning Modern Jazz Quartet with Laurindo Almeidaa - Collaboration Found a bunch of $1 Modern Jazz Quartet albums. I know they worked with Miles, and some went on to have great solo careers. I've not been overly impressed so far, but I'm more of a fusion guy so 🤷

#nowspinning Renaissance Music for Brass I'm pretty much always going to buy $1 classical records with the 70s era Nonesuch label

#Astros win!!!!

If the #Astros are going to go big on the trade deadline, I think they need a SP over an OF. This lineup is solid. You can almost expect them to win whenever Brown or Lambert pitches. Arrighetti is at least 50/50. One more good pitcher transforms then into a playoff team if they stay healthy

#Astros win!!!!!!! Between late games, teaching/parenting, and the retreat I was on last weekend, this is my first celebratory post in probably a month. I'll take it!!!

Delgado?!?!?! #Astros Let's gooooooo!!!!!!

Come on #Astros let's do it for Hunter! 🤞🙏🤞🙏

Man, there used to be lots of chatter here during #Astros games. The people are mostly still here, but I totally get it. There's not much to say! The team is mediocre!

Donuts 🤮

#nowspinning Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard A pretty scratched up $1 find

#nowspinning Another $1 Lonnie Liston Smith album - Renaissance

#nowspinning Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Visions of a New World Still moving slowly through my $1 albums. I picked this up only knowing Smith's work with Miles and Pharaoh Sanders, so I'm a little disappointed even though it's still pretty good

Today's Lincoln Portrait performance was an act of defiance against our current administration. The quotes of Lincoln moved me to tears. As the White House prepared a cage match on its front lawn, I listened to words of liberation and anti-tyranny set to music by a queer socialist.

#nowspinning Peter, Paul, and Mary - No Easy Walk to Freedom With this album, I have most of their catalog on vinyl. Despite being a $1 album that had seen two trips to Jerry's records and some time in Half Price Books, it's in very good shape. It's found its new long term home, I think

Catching the Pittsburgh Symphony with my son. We came early so he could meet some of the musicians and much to my surprise, we had an opportunity to meet F. Murray Abraham (dressed as Abraham Lincoln). Levi said "No thanks, he's creepy." 😆 We'll still have a good time listening to great music

What a bunch of losers but also fuck Kershaw for giving any of these dorks this idea

I picked a hell of a game to miss tonight #Astros save some runs for the rest of the series please

I'm here for the next 40 hours

#nowspinning Peter, Paul, and Mary - Late Again I'm a sucker for Peter, Paul, and Mary. I listened to a lot of them as a child. Interestingly, Herbie Hancock is listed in the credits on this album. I didn't realize he ever played with them

#nowspinning Commodores - Midnight Magic Always fun, always easy to find in $1 bins. I'm not sure how many albums I really want to hold onto though

Another Kansas $1 vinyl: Point of Know Return #nowspinning

School's out!!!! I'll be at a retreat all weekend so I won't be following the #Astros, but I'm excited to get back to watching full games!

Rickey Henderson or Nolan Ryan

Oh no! Not Scams! #Victoire #PWHL

Sure, Burrows was bad for the #Astros, but 3 hits and zero runs through 7 innings isn't going to cut it

I didn't jinx it!!! #ASTROS WIN!!!!!

It's loud again!!! Altuve #Astros Headed out for a social gathering, but I like this lead 😁 (probably just jinxed it)

My house is so loud right now, I love daytime #Astros. Yordan for MVP!!!!!

Decided to dig into the $1 collection a second time: #nowspinning Kansas - Vinyl Confessions At their best, Kansas is elite. At their worst, unlistenable. I'm not familiar with this album after the first track, Play the Game Tonight, so we'll see 🤷

#nowspinning Leo Kottke - My Feet Are Smiling Still savoring my $1 finds from April. Might take me all summer to get through the new-to-me vinyl I purchased in April and May. Which is fine because I'm out of space and need to weed out some subpar or poor condition albums anyhow

Nice to open the MLB app and see a pleasant surprise from the #Astros! Paredes is heating up!

I still have no idea what to think of this team! I'm blacked out of these Pittsburgh games, but I went to bed and it was 5-3 and then they scored 8 more runs?!?!?! Wild! What a chaotic team #Astros

Ok Houston folks, I'll be in Houston in a little less than two months!!! I'll share about my #Astros game plans once I secure tickets. I'll also have some questions that I'll ask from time to time. Today my question is about the Space Center: Are the Tram Tours worth it?

Another day, another $1 vinyl find: #nowspinning Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children Terrible pic due to poor sleeve quality and glare

Back at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for the first time in over two months!

#nowspinning Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn Another day, another $1 record find. Moody Blues fills many a bargain bin, but I think they're pretty good.

Peña!!!!

Went to see the Mandalorian and Grogu with the kids. Paid for a babysitter to watch my youngest daughter. Fire alarm went off with 5 minutes left. While it didn't look like there was an actual fire, we opted to get the offered free ticket vouchers rather than stay and see what happened.

I was just explaining to my son not to get too excited, Eovaldi always dominates the #Astros Now I get to explain regression to the mean!

PEEEEEEÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑAAAAAAAA!!!!!

#nowspinning Earth, Wind, and Fire - All 'N All Digging back into my recent $1 bin finds. This one just needed cleaned and plays fine. This came with a bonus EWF record in the other party of the sleeve: "I Am" so I definitely got my money's worth lol 😂

YORDAN!!!! #Astros MVP

I can only really talk about Pittsburgh and the Philly suburbs. I lived in Houston <5 years. Philly Suburbs: the Main Line schools aren't really all that great, it's just $$$ and the inequitable school funding Pittsburgh: the Children's museum sucks, Sidney Crosby is a whiny baby

I was wearing my #Phillies hat today and a student asked me why there isn't a bigger rivalry between them and the #Pirates. I said it was because they are never good at the same time. That got me curious. When was the last time both PA teams were above .500? 1983, so never in my lifetime

I took today off to tend to my flower garden after being away for Memorial Day. I found a new amazing nursery just a couple miles away from me and got to spend tons of time outside. I wish I could do this more often! I'm already looking forward to retirement in 18 years 🤣

The #Astros have now won 4 straight games, something the #Flyers, who got to the second round of the postseason, never did during the regular season

That was the wildest #Astros game of all time. Well, ok, I guess HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED also pitched a no hitter, but I really had this down as a scheduled loss