OUT TOMORROW! AT LONG LAST! MAN FINDS TAPE! The film Jess and I executively produced, written, directed, starring, and filmed by people Jess and I have known in the Austin film community for decades. The single most Austin film made in several years. We're very proud. In theaters & on VOD TOMORROW!

Put a sincere note of apology on your neighbors’ doors, re: volume level. Take your blood pressure meds. Secure fragile items. Maybe rend a sleeve. Then turn this stunner from Música d’Outrora up to 11. Six minutes of “holy sh…” You’re welcome. @continuoconnect.bsky.social #ClassicalMusic

Today I collected Sean’s ashes. For the time being they are residing in this vintage soup tureen, adorned with his bolo. I've spent the evening just staring at them and drinking an imprudent amount of Irish whiskey.

Virtually every institution I engage with regularly—the university, healthcare—is falling to pieces in front of my eyes. But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world. Go to the gig.

Stole this from the Cedar Cultural Center’s page since they aren’t here. ♥️♥️♥️

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

I have orchestra rehearsal tonight in Kerrville and, against all odds, I am well prepared. It’s even a pretty day for a drive in the Texas Hill Country. A neighbor helped me load the big harp into my station wagon and off I go. (Will take some photos along the way.)

World AIDS day 2025 was yesterday. Chaski still remembers fabulous Austin harpist Whit Dudley who died of AIDS. Let's help build awareness to improve the worldwide response. #chaski40th #WorldAIDSDay2025 @flautadita60.bsky.social @shanahipharpy.bsky.social

Give the gift of your friendship and an immersive authentic musical 🎶 experience by inviting a friend (or two or more!) to one of Chaski's free "Women's Work" concerts coming up in the new year! See you there! #musicalgift #chaski40th @flautadita60.bsky.social @shanahipharpy.bsky.social

Behold, my Advent Calendar! It is an Escape Room game that is set in Santa’s Workshop. If I can’t solve 24 riddles to unlock all the doors, then Christmas is going to be grim indeed. No pressure!! 😎

Yippee! The PDF tunebook of Ailie Robertson’s amazing new project just arrived in my inbox. So many lovely harp tunes just begging to be played. Will I stick to my practice plan for today, or will The Tunes of Distraction prove too alluring?🧐

Because bsky can always use more #herps ... This salamander's middle name is slimy and when it feels threatened it can release a sticky substance that sticks like glue and tastes bad. 😝

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Rabbit, rabbit.

Yep. That was a fun tour. Miles & miles of Texas. Fwiw, I still have that periwinkle blue linen dress & pale green top. (They are tattered, but I still wear them to garden.) The green sandals are San Miguel “Cocktail /Combat” shoes. They’re the best!

This explains their need for a strong floor.

this guy made his son a tiny version of Engineered Garments's FA pants 😭 IG twhattcomethru

i mean whiskey is prob the only way i’ll tango or foxtrot tbh.

Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds

Thank you for enjoying her!

I don’t think that you can get a Pulitzer or Nobel for a single McSweeney’s piece but

Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…

Remembering Maestro Monteverdi 🕯️

Here's what the Original Welsh version of Deck the Halls sounded like: #harp #music #welsh #christmasmusic

Another of the 3 jigs I’ll be teaching online on Saturday 6th! Sign ups still available at www.karenmarshalsay.com/buy/p/new-ye...

Och aye. All hail the Hamish Macbeth

Der Nöck — Hermann Hendrich, 1892

Few things brighten a day more than catching up with a friend & playing tunes together! Had an epic afternoon (on both counts) with @kelseyhuse.com.

Communities need used-book shops. As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories... We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

Hey folks — I'll be appearing soon at the Dallas Jewish Bookfest to talk about "Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande." The event is on Monday, December 8, at 7 pm at the Aaron Family JCC. See the link for details and registration. www.jccdallas.org/events/bookf...

The holiday decorations I made in 2019. Feel free to steal this idea.

Don't send your coins to the wealthy trolls that live in high castles this holiday season. Shop in your local forest and share them with the witches, goblins, and other moss draped horrors that create sparks of light in the darkness.

If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.

Chile🇨🇱! On this date in 1520, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan crossed through this strait. On our upcoming Women's Work concerts Jan. 23 and Feb. 1, we will feature music by Chilean 🇨🇱 folk singer and composer Violeta Parra. #chaski40th @flautadita60.bsky.social @shanahipharpy.bsky.social

Because bsky can always use more #herps... You'll always remember the first time you fell in love with them.

At 12:55 today (Austin time) KUTX is scheduled to play a recording I’m on. It’s their Song of the Day. It’s called “Goodness.” Tune in if you can.

My neighbors took me to Goat Pen Trivia night at Jester King Brewery tonight. Absolutely hilarious. We’re were epically bad at the trivia, but had a magnificent time.

Now that I have been through all these stages, I understand this Douglas Adams quote a little better. Everyone is essentially correct: technology is normal and ordinary and new and exciting and against the natural order of things

I’ll be going live in about 5 hours (8pm CST) for my next #Twitch stream - this time, special #Baking Stream, part 1! Come watch me make #RadWhip for the two #pies I’ll be baking tomorrow! (By the way, in case you didn’t know - it’s completely free to watch!) www.twitch.tv/apryl_knight #vegan

BBC Radio 3's 'In Concert' plays the music of Grace Williams, Elizabeth Maconchy, Anna Semple and Julia Wolfe! Williams and Maconchy were friends of Ina Boyle, remarkable women who blazed a trail for female composers in the 20th century!🎶 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #FemaleComposers #Women

🎶Good mornin’ America how are ya? 🎶

So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.

Thanks to everyone who used our craft table to make us an autumn leaf for our library tree. 🍂🍂🍂 Our tree has changed. Winter is coming. 🎄❤️

With the lyrics "egg colored smile", it could be a psychedelic Beatles song. But it's a Welsh folk song. #harp #welsh #eggs

📻The Chords & Queens podcast, hosted by Jennifer Athan, recently dedicated an entire episode to the Irish composer, Ina Boyle! 🎶The show spotlights the historical contributions of women composers. A must-listen!

A fabulous pre-code gag from "Wonder Bar" (1934)

Another great classic Thanksgiving episode I'd recommend is the one from "The Bob Newhart Show" #Television #Thanksgiving #Vintage #70s #Comedy #BobNewhart #TVSky

I released this in 2019. Never expected I’d be sitting with it in 2025 hoping it gets stuck in ICE goons’ heads and renders them unable to sleep. sjtucker.bandcamp.com/track/veo-un...