Yesterday, my brother was at a Civil War historic site, my sister went to a baseball game, and I saw a jazz concert, so collectively we completed the Ken Burns trifecta.

This is my new book

Gotta say that this AI headline is really dark, @apnews.com

Did they play a commercial with “Roll Out” in it during the Iowa men’s basketball game because Iowa misses @komaniecki.bsky.social?

As you consider the run time of this video, please keep in mind that it is about a grand total of two bars of music.

One of my favorite lines of poetry ever

For some context, my NYU department has 1 tenured faculty, 18 adjunct faculty, and is chaired by a single contract faculty who is completely amazing and does so much more work than what she is paid for, plus is just on a renewable contract without tenure protections.

I didn’t know today was Bill Frisell’s 75th birthday until now, but I guess I “knew” it because I listened to “Gone, Just Like a Train” in the car today.

Finishing St. Patrick’s Day with this absolute bop: youtu.be/7AZfCllyRNY?...

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

Nothing better than this

Eephus

Appropriate for a guy who played in March Madness

Them: So how did you spend your Saturday? Me: Oh, you know. Just idly singing “I got my twin Glock .40s” to the tune of “Broadway Baby.”

As someone who has street parked since moving to NYC… please, please, please do this.

With the Adebayo game, all I can think of are the unhinged rhymes Common did to introduce the NBA all-stars in 2020

Three albums which made a big impression on me as a teenager where Bill Frisell’s Rambler (1985), Lester Bowie Brass Fantasy’s Avant Pop (1986), and Arthur Blythe’s Illusions (1980), which I checked out on LP from the SF Public Library in 1993. All featured the magnificent tuba of Bob Stewart.

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

The footage appears to contradict President Donald Trump’s claim it was an Iranian missile that hit the school on Feb. 28. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

The NYT style guide

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

RIP Eliane Radigue.

This is definitely one of those songs that I think all humans should listen to at least once: youtu.be/xe4jSbcKiUQ?...

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"? www.techdirt.com/202...

Isaiah Zagar made Philadelphia, and in turn the world, a more beautiful place to live. May his memory be a blessing.

A journey to the end of taste, and beyond! Could this be this the purest, most unencumbered expression of the Don Ellis aesthetic? (I keed, I keed.) Truly, the 1970s were another planet. youtu.be/-TvO6xVnp1g

Is @komaniecki.bsky.social disappointed that Ludacris didn’t do Roll Out in his NBA all star performance?

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

I wrote about an unlikely pioneer of avant garde trombone. jacobgarchik.substack.com/p/the-unlike...

I am a professional music theorist and can verify that this song does indeed slap. Even The Edge wish he had written it!

A field populated by Carol Sturkas, but at least she had some degree of self-reflection

David Byrne duh

When are we gonna get White Lotus on a cruise, ie White Boatus?

RIP Ken Peplowski who died yesterday at only 66 years old! The jazz world has lost a true great, few could match him on clarinet or saxophone. #NowPlaying Ken’s 2013 album “Maybe September“ which contains an amazing version of Moon Ray #Jazz #RIP JazzSky

Look up Galatians 3:27 my man

you may not know it until it's slinking through your immediate environment but you need this new tune by Tomeka Reid so so much outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com/track/oo-long

A variation on the college class thing: 5 non-music classes that deeply impacted my musical life 1. Jesus: Earliest Sources to Contemporary Interpretation 2. Fundamentals of Neuroscience 3. A Critical Voice (Journalism workshop) 4. What Makes a Poem Endure? 5. Shakespeare I

Just rewatched tonight. It’s incredible how she’s acting like she’s in Sondheim’s Follies and pulling it off while the gags just swirl around.

R.I.P. guitarist/composer Tim Thomas of Babe The Blue OX, Bang On A Can, the Amphitheaters, and Sō Percussion.

Mackenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

i hope performing arts organizations still insisting on marketing on X are at least thinking twice before using performance photography of women on there

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Still got nothing on the cutters

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

My wife and I sobbed uncontrollably during episode 2 and you should also!!!