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!!!

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

Once in a Lifetime, but it’s by Charlie Brown’s teacher

Hey @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social - maybe it’s not such a great idea to have this guy’s name in your concert hall

To add to all the lovely Bowie remembrances, here’s my listen to Blackstar the day after he died: klaskeymusic.com/2016/01/11/l...

Music theory teachers! My department at NYU created an amazing free public collection of online resources and examples, including a huge body of pop examples. They want you to use it! sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nyu-...

Baby has babbled “labubu” multiple times today. Hopefully this doesn’t mean he wants one.

Good listening for today: youtu.be/j0Xb7kAIh_0?...

Netflix should’ve had “Christmas Prince 4: Royal Regime Change” in the can already

I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

I feel the same way about music, and I think the battle is lost there – most people, I think, consider that if listening doesn’t give them what they already know they wanted, then they are not interested – for me, I want to learn more, absorb more, understand more. To be stretching

I love the Weir piece on this, and for the aurals teachers out there, it’s the best dictation exercise for the octatonic scale.

I seemingly had more Dave Valle baseball cards than any other when I was growing up.

Not crazy per-se, but I worked in the rare book room at the college library for a couple of summers. I did a project about the collecting history of JP Morgan’s nephew, who was hyperfixated on collecting every single one of the earliest printed copies of Virgil.

what it's like being in a band with me and you forgot to block my number

THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!

the good that you do persists in this world

Seeing Cast Away with my brother and one other person in the theater at 11 AM on a summer weekday

My aunt did design work for the Reebok NBA jerseys in the aughts and gave my family a couple of Yao Ming sample jerseys that went to the floor when I’d put them on

You will be visited by 3 spirits

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

Greatest fusion album of the 80s?

Featuring: – An Alma Mahler Labubu – The Britten Seaside Trauma snow globe – “Fratres” for Cats – The “Anna Netrebko Accountability” Advent Calendar – Lush’s “Shostakovich Panic Attack” bath bomb

if Mississippi State is gonna have an edge rusher named Sylla they should have a defensive tackle named Charibdys

This is totally self-centered, but one of the reasons I’m loving the new Mountain Goats so much is that the colors and textures sound like my first attempts at serious composing in college. It has that magical, quixotic “let’s put on a show” energy.

Last time I checked, a $140,000 income in the US is 4th quintile, meaning 3/5 of Americans earn below the poverty line by 1960s standard of living. 😰

Bluesky’s official song of the day: youtu.be/DuQMZjjAM1Y?...

New interview with the Messthetics on the humbling and inspiring experience of covering Sonny Sharrock's 'Ask the Ages' in full, which they'll do again on Friday in D.C., along with James Brandon Lewis: darkforcesswing.substack.com/p/like-tryin...

Pluribus - EP Vince Gilligan - 2025

They also happened to be my 4-month-old’s first live concert!

AI is going to use up all of our power and water, and all because tech bros are upset that no matter how much money they have, they will never have artistic talent. Why couldn’t they just invest in a Broadway show like normal rich people