In my first week of adjuncting in August 2016, I gave a little assignment to Google questions about classical music and see what came up; a student said "I found this blog post by... Normal Lebrocht?" and I went "OH MY GOD all my friends have been fighting with him on Twitter all week."

The things that gets buried talking about the Kansas thing is... everyone says "just move" every time something like this comes up. And to loose your license? You can't move. I am currently moving from one state to another right now. Thus far I have used my old state license to:

so instead of watching the SotU, a bunch of us spent last night doing silly presentations and raising fifteen thousand dollars (!!!) for a variety of good causes if you'd like to see me rant about star wars in person, I'm at about the 2:15 mark in the video, but the whole thing is phenomenal

in the beginning the scheming vizier events were spaced by 24 weeks. then 12, then 6, then every 2 weeks. the last one, this afternoon, was a week. in 4 days, we could see a scheming vizier event every 8 hours until they're coming every 4 minutes. chat, we should witness a double event within 7 days

Adrian let me go long on Bard College president t Leon Botstein, his relationship with pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and how elite men’s tolerance for sexual abuse is reflected in the institutions they control. www.patreon.com/posts/151641...

Philly suburbs summer outdoor concert season is already looking good (and only a few things have been announced so far)!

This one in a library copy of Amiri Baraka's Blues People has stuck with me since 2009.

free, today! solve the mini crossword puzzle that has already been called "a gut punch" and "evil (complimentary)"

From a 1991 article titled "Rap singing as an icebreaker for large classes" by E. Rae Harcum:

NIXON: The one in the diaper. With the big head. HALDEMAN: Tommy Pickles, sir. NIXON: Jewish? HALDEMAN: I don't think-- KISSINGER: Yes. NIXON: Really. KISSINGER: They did a Hanukkah special. NIXON: [expletive deleted]

one thing that's kinda funny is the way Nixon was taught at least to me i thought of him as a strictly historical figure but he died in 1994. kinda funny to imagine him watching dave coulier slime wil wheaton on the nickelodeon kids choice awards.

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f... Brandi Carlile concert raises over $600,000 for families affected by ICE

as an Accidental Einstein Expert™, I can tell you Einstein would hate this with all the fire of a thousand suns

what even is the fucking point

The K. is for Kathleen - I have one Irish grandparent and a 100% Irish name. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm more attached to the initial than to the full name - among other things, I need it for SEO reasons.

went on here to find you all having some kind of microblogging platforms discourse I refuse to learn any more about, so you know what, the specific kinds of Overwhelmed I am right now are fine, I'll take it, I'm glad I don't have time to read my whole timeline

Calivar?? @oneshotrpg.bsky.social

Oh, it's a *blizzard* warning now? 16 to 22 inches? Fuck you!!

I saw the illustration for that Wired article multiple times before I uhh fully processed it

And in her honor, this is one of my favs. It gives me literal goosebumps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Z4...

If you watched this live and couldn't fully enjoy it because you were still on edge from the men's free skate, watching it again with the knowledge that she crushed it is so worth it.

"Fuck you. No. Fuck you. I don't want this." -the first words out of my mouth this morning, @ the "total snow accumulation between 10 and 16 inches" winter storm warning

“Jurassic Park”, Weird Al Yankovic’s 1993 parody of “MacArthur Park”.

I've been uncharacteristically offline today (work + rehearsal + time-consuming life thing), and I just need to say that it's been a weird day to be uncharacteristically offline.

I absolutely adore @adapalmer.bsky.social's Terra Ignota quartet, among the best novels I've ever read, but I have to say, a story about how a cabal of elite sexual deviants brought down the global order, culminating in a new world war breaking out at the end of the Olympics hits different right now

No, PerfectIt, that's wrong. 😩

Buddy, I already do this and if you saw how little I make a year, you’d rend your garments.

This applies to academic books, which is fun because being afraid of your readers is the Grad School Experience.

stop making me look at those horrible men

I cried watching this video on my phone in a grocery store parking lot. My faves from my early/mid-twenties are reuniting and WORKING ON NEW SONGS. 😭💗😭💗😭💗

I was driving to work one morning during the Kavanaugh hearings when Brandi Carlile's "The Joke" came up on my car playlist and triggered some unsafe Sobbing Driving in rush-hour traffic and fog. When I saw her last week (🤩), I was thinking about how long it's been since everyone's Trump 1 songs. 😩

I have a surefire prescription to save these names and it’s for the United States as a whole to get way more cool about trans people

Love this photo of Lili #Boulanger and friends at the Villa Medici in Rome in 1914. She was tall (5'9"/175 cm)

I saw people on here supporting the Hilton boycott like "switch to Hyatt! it's owned by GOOD billionaires!" great advice, thanks (to be clear: I'm not saying don't boycott, I'm saying with major hotel chains it's gonna be "this one isn't doing [evil thing X]" rather than "this is the Good one")

The difference between "full verbatim" and "clean verbatim" transcripts: Full verbatim captures spoken word exactly as stated, including filler words, stutters and false starts. Clean verbatim has words exactly as stated, but edits the filler words, repeated words and stutters.

I tell my journalism students specifically not to do this. It's a hack move to make people sound dumb. Everyone talks like this — with the exception of maybe Pete Buttigieg — and it's an editorial choice to leave the little filler words in there.

gift/Will Bunch share.inquirer.com/eBZBvu?utm_s...

Oooh, I don't think I can make it to this, but it sounds really helpful!

What a phrase to decide to live with: “by removing writing from reporters’ workloads”

Sometime last week, I mentioned having given a paper about tuning conspiracy theories and solfeggio tones at a conference. I spent some time turning it into a blog post, and you can read it here: www.williamohara.net/blog/2026/2/...

Shameless plug: I have a little ebook on writing effective (scripted, humanities-style) conference papers! It's aimed mainly at grad students, but of course there are some senior scholars who could learn from it....

I visited my family for Easter in 2016 while deep in post-defense dissertation revision hell, and I left the room for a minute and came back to find my laptop unresponsive. I borrowed an old laptop from my sister, downloaded the files from my cloud backup, and got back to work. 😵‍💫

According to Julie K. Brown, who did such invaluable reporting on Jeffrey Epstein for the Miami Herald, the Bard College Board of Trustees is conducting an emergency meeting tomorrow. I hope they do the right thing. x.com/jkbjournalis...

Age verification? My Tamagotchi died while I was seeing the Good Burger movie.

I still think about this

Why is the harmonica considered wretched?

why are girls making this request

what if Joanna Newsom comes back and we all miss the news because we have "Newsom" muted because of her second cousin twice removed

excuse me, this is a perfectly cromulent word