Shockingly, nobody in my College of Fine Arts Curriculum Committee meeting got my Marshawn Lynch joke this morning

Love seeing Alabama lose, but hate all the Florida State racist chanting

_Sgt. Pepper’s_ is closer (chronologically) to _Rite of Spring_ than to today. _Rite of Spring_ is closer to Beethoven 3 than to today.

Eddy is coming at me pretty hard tonight

Very punchable face

I regret to inform you that Ann Arbor is Very Cute.

@mattbakerstl.bsky.social missed the stream tonight so forgive me of this came up: I see lots of armchair managers on Reddit saying that “Hack is not the answer” long term. Other than lack of experience at this level, where do you think this attitude comes from? I was impressed with him in 2024.

PK Suban wearing sequins and gesturing at a video board with a backwards hockey stick makes me feel like I’m having an episode. Is this real life?

Whether it was Joe Biden with his halting pauses or Donald Trump with his repeated promises to destroy our democracy and plunge us into a world of tyranny and economic collapse, both candidates gave voters plenty to worry about

The last few semesters, WSU has been using an AI voice to read graduate names in commencement ceremonies. I find it to be very off-putting. Is this practice common? Are other universities doing this?

It sounds better in the original German

Utahans, it’s very important to know that this anti-pride flag law specifically defines a flag as “…a usually rectangular piece of fabric…”. Giant sheets of painted plywood are not flags. Says so right here: le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/...

I want to open a vegan restaurant called Hail Seitan

I’m gonna tell my students this is the Rite of Spring youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?... (cc @trevorrnelson.bsky.social)

“Fuggler” means _funny_ ugly monster, not whatever _you_ were thinking. Get your head out of the gutter…

The Texas Society for Music Theory conference badge has a Schenker graph. That is some serious yee-haw energy

Me, 9 days ago…

Parts of the revolution may, in fact, be televised

Footnotes for tomorrow’s orchestration handout

Tomorrow night the Wichita Thunder hockey team has a special Military Appreciation Night. The game is against the Allen Americans. You read that right. For Military Appreciation Night, the Americans are the bad guys…

We blew our engagement photography budget on hockey tickets so this is what you get (St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, and Wichita Thunder)

Flag on the play: Beyoncé is penalized 15 yds for unsportsmanlike conduct, simulating a firearm #nfl

What did I do to you, Duo?!

Happy National OK-Seriously-We-Really-Need-to-Clean-the-House-Good-Before-Family-Gets-Here Weekend to all who celebrate!!

Can I post a year-in-review before Thanksgiving?

In a meeting with three MacBook users and three Dell laptop users. All three Dells have been plugged in the whole time and all three MacBooks are not.

Some light weekend reading

Is this enough? It seems like enough

So apparently we’re here now? That’s weird.

the 12 genders

…and people say local journalism is dead…

Sometimes I’m amazed that there’s any hair left on the cat

Whoever decided endnotes were a good idea even after they learned about footnotes, I see you, and I hate you.

My colleague (who started teaching here in the 1980s) is astonished that I never copy my Blackboard courses from year to year because I change enough stuff every time. Am I really _that_ weird?

Complimenting a musician or an artist by citing their “talent” is actually quite rude because it dismisses the hours of work over years and years to be able to do that thing. I will die on this hill.

I’m not going to point any fingers. The most public-facing building at my campus is literally named for a Koch brother.

Amazing that Twellman is so oblivious that he keeps mentioning “the script” while Messi is getting these calls.

It’s like a supermassive scam black hole

Philip Ewell: On Music Theory

When I hear about Glory Blazers I mostly think of Don Cherry (the hockey broadcaster and famous a-hole, not the brilliant musician who rocked a tiny trumpet).

“Blaze your glory” sounds like something you’d see in a mobile game ad with a elf wearing lingerie and holding a sword

More free speech absolutism from your favorite free speech absolutist https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

New laptop here! Send cool stickers so I can seem like the kind of person who stickers things.

If none of your friends has been pushing the new KNOWER record on you this summer, you need to make some better friends. https://youtu.be/tuhe1CpHRxY

Is there sports here or do we only talk nerd shit? I wanna talk about Leagues Cup.

Cool. So what do we do here?