This is EXACTLY the kind of legal drama I live for.

Catalogued entirely in a one book!!!

Got my nails done at VdGSA conclave and they're fab!

WTF Android?

A music lesson, circa 1611.

Found a feral cat at the Summer Toot, brought him home (I've been home less than 2 hours). He's perfect.

My car's built-in rain gauge show we got over an inch of rain! Great feature on Acuras but inconvenient: you have to leave the moonroof open for it to work.

Two types of frightening girls, from 1892.

Spring polishing time. Figured I'd start small and work myself up to the tea service I never use.

There's no comparison, though, personality-wise. Hoover is a Greek-tragedy level historical figure, full of every virtue except one.

Please, Trump, beat Hoover, who was a fatally flawed president but a genuinely good guy, scrupulously honest, who nearly worked himself to death trying to fix things.

In the magical world known as Calabria:

Mr. Squeak, purebred trash goblin. 2005-2025.

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Generating this likely exceeded the annual carbon emissions of a couple Baltic republics, but, no, I am not immune to stupid Internet trends.

6 days of work, 850 breves of music. A 1549 mass on Verdelot's "Italia Mia". I was going to start a series of masses based on madrigals, but that was a slog of work. Maybe I'll just do some imitative magnificats. dfwviols.com/typeset/gasp...

Grumpy guy at my hotel is also a duck with antlers from behind!

Started: Nov 2012. Finished: tonight. All surviving printed madrigals of Luca Marenzio transcribed from original notation in modern parts and scores, except for an imperfect 1577 madrigal, and a 1593 in an anthology I have no scan of. Last I did: a 10-voice polychoral: dfwviols.com/typeset/di_d...

The "skibidi" of the late 17th century: "galant".

Remembering a classic @kenwhite.bsky.social twitter thread that needs an addition, "If you're trying to purchase a ray gun to kill minorities en masse, and some friends from the KKK offer to help you out, they're Feds."

3 broken strings on my tenor! It must have been the cold snap and maybe low humidity from heat. The day before a workshop I'm playing tenor on. By some miracle I have one 10-year-old F4. Gut strings can be a bother.

The old pig now away has fled, the new pig it is enterèd... w/ 1907 20 francs coin (2024 pig w/ 1899 "Indian head" cent) #lemonpig #lemonpig2025

I have finally made it in the world. This is such an honor! I have been asked to submit a paper to the prestigious academic journal ........ Cattle Practice.

Has anyone ever noticed Vecchi's "So ben mi ch'ha bon tempo" ends each section with only a kinda medieval cadence in 5ths alone? The 3rd is only supplied by the lute part, almost always omitted by most choirs! Not a single version on CPDL makes note of this.

Slightly tough text, from a 1565 publication. The text source is unknown, but I think it's either much earlier, or just heavy on the Tuscanisms. Figuring out the appropriate punctuation (typically there is none in madrigal publications) and meaning is part of the fun.

I typo'd a search on youtube and got this result, an absolutely perfect 1-min long korean punk song, and I cannot stop listening to it!! (the kids are alright!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k7c...

The best @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social around are in 17c guides to sex.

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Cooking up a couple perfect fried eggs, sunny side up.

A bought a bunch of French sardines and this is my favorite tin artwork.

What in the everloving frick is this?? I hope this is just someone impersonating the Oxford Camerata on Spotify? It's an album of AI-generated garbage masquerading as Gregorian chant.

Goal for 2024 reached: I started transcribing Italian madrigals in Dec 2012 from original prints. Today I finished my 1500th madrigal. The vast majority I've done are from 1560-1600, and I've just barely scratched the surface of this amazing repertoire.

CAT-LIKE CRIMINAL HIPAA DISCLOSURE DETECTED

First good thunderstorm in a couple months, cooling things down and encouraging cat snuggling.

Gonna tell my grandkids thus is an Ent.

In Carlo Fiamma's 1611 catalog of poetic conceits ("gareggiamento poetico"), this definitely counts as a "bacio involato" (stolen kiss), but unusually, it's the woman who pulls it off! And runs away! (transcribed the piece and made the translation tonight)

I admit to really loving his interpretation of Elizabethan and early Jacobean virginal music.

Posta un link bomba che non è in inglese. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMQY...

Posta um link incrível que não seja em inglês. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCp_...

Still working on my poetry translation game, but this one I finished tonight went well (attempting to be fairly literal for singers or programs, but not TOO literal). My transcription is here: dfwviols.com/typeset/di_d...

Personally, I'm on team Ariosto.

If Dr. Seuss illustrated videos of randomly violent Child ballads!? This is wonderful!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTbj...

There's a girl, My Lord, in a flat bed Ford...

Ducked around with low-carb diet and found gout.

Son, shut the hell up about Pikachu for 30 seconds.

I should be packing right now, as I'm leaving at 5am, but look, I found a great cinquecento poem about the blessed, beautiful fate of a mosquito squashed to death on the breast of his beloved!

I'm on call this weekend, but nothing's happening, so I'm working on some madrigal translations. This particular poem by Luigi Groto (1541-1585) is particularly striking. Here's how I rendered it: