what are you talking about it's just i iv V—(gets to the bridge) ooHHHHHHHH

This song is such an adventure in chromatic harmony! Several moves through an octatonic cycle in the bridge, plus a German diminished-third chord as a motive 😳 Also, since my side music gig is at a Unitarian Universalist church, I could and almost certainly should play this as a prelude some Sunday

🚨🚨 THE @musicologyduck.bsky.social EPISODE OF THIS AMERICAN LIFE IS OUT 🚨🚨 (I have to put my kids to bed before I can listen 😭 I’ve been waiting months for this)

1. Two guys invented the ZIP code in the 1960s, but they had a strict division of labor: one guy invented the first three digits, the other guy invented the last two digits

Man, I am just not wired to find this to be appealing behavior from the spice company

Super good and also his best audiobook performance to date, if you’re into that kind of thing

dear god that second one really failed the naming game

My 3-year-old’s take on the opening track from Mary Halvorson’s Belladonna: “Dat song had da hiccups!” Well, judge for yourself:

Every time someone calls Hegseth's testosterone program or Elon's hair plugs "gender affirming care," I wince. Speaking only for myself, and I know the jokes are well-intentioned: I wish we'd retire this one. New from me on why. www.readtpa.com/p/theres-no-...

OH MY FUCK THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT

OK based on the first quote I got, I could buy the ladder, the chainsaw, AND pay my inevitable hospital bill, and just about break even (the guy was nice enough to suggest that we should first see if LGE will do it for free since the broken limb is somewhat close to one of their lines)

If you encounter measure 840 it can only be in one of two situations: (1) a whole act of a Wagner opera, or (2) a fourth movement by Schubert. (This movement also has a repeat of the first 230 measures so in reality it's pushing 1100)

“How much must harpists love their harps” ❤️

Ken Coffee Subscription Hmm, nah

It just occurred to me that in our post-DARE world I have no idea how my kids are going to learn a bunch of decades-old drug slang, how to use various kinds of paraphernalia, etc., without having it taught to them by a cop

If you get a lot of ads for fancy coffee beans that emphasize how ✨incredibly fresh✨ the coffee is—like they will have it to your door within hours of roasting—please know that coffee beans ARE NOT GOOD when freshly roasted and you should rest them for a couple of weeks before using

Our backyard maple tree has a large broken limb that's hanging by a thread about 30 feet off the ground, and do you know how much it's killing me that we have to call a tree service instead of me buying a big ladder and a sweet chainsaw and doing it myself

Is soccer the very worst sport to just have on in the background (e.g. because you were harassed into reading all of Cars & Trucks & Things That Go). It's so rewarding to pay close attention to, but if you're looking up every 2 minutes at random, it's like yep I guess they're still kickin' it around

After 6 years (more pertinently, since our younger kid turned 3), we took down the baby gate making it slightly more annoying to go upstairs. Feels like we got a whole new house.

Another tremendous composer get today (piece I'd never heard but was sure was by Elgar)

Some important musicology here and in the replies

They make such a big deal when some late-30s dinosaur is playing in this World Cup, and I find that so insulting. My age (45) is not the reason that I’m not playing in the World Cup! That would be my general lack of fitness and athletic ability

Great reason why “no one has ever written about this!!” cannot be the whole rationale for your paper/thesis/whatever. Maybe someone has and you’re just 21! Rationale has to be that you have something to say.

I keep thinking if I were a player on the field and that aerial camera’s shadow came into my peripheral vision I would think I was about to be attacked by a squirrel

The stereotype is that the parents always step on the pointy toys that the kids leave lying around everywhere. The reality in our house is that the parents are mostly nimble enough to avoid this so the kids step on the toys and howl up a storm, but do they change their toy-leaving ways? They do not.

Tons of microtonal sickos follow me, please help this person find joy in the spaces between real notes

At my kid’s T-ball league for 5- and 6-year-olds, they don’t keep score or record outs. An inning is one turn at bat for every kid and everyone gets a hit every time. Until sports parents can start behaving normally, I think rules of this kind should be mandated for all sports up to age 18.

Any parent who legitimately believes their child is getting a full ride for a non-revenue sport is insane and if that parent believes one of the dozen high school trans athletes that currently exist are preventing that child from getting that fictional scholarship then they are 10x as insane as that

i love not gambling. every day i wake up and just don't gamble at all. any money i have at the beginning of the day i either keep or exchange for goods or services. if somebody says "hey do you want to get into some gambling" i say "hell no, brother. do i look like an idiot to you" it's fantastic

What, was Vladimir Shpunt unavailable?

He was thirsty

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

FIXED for such a reasonable price, god bless honest service professionals

My colleagues in the doomed effort to save the U of L’s Early Learning Campus, which closes permanently today, have summed up this incredibly shameful episode in a long op-ed

Out of the hundreds of people I follow I haven’t seen a single instance of handing it to the Supreme Court on citizenship. Proud of you guys. Horrifying to think of the levels of “THANK YOU JOHN ROBERTS” that must be taking place in some other corners of the internet

i used to get lost in the weeds about the sports science of it all, but the truth is we are women and belong where women belong. any other opinion is one that tells me you don’t see me as a woman, and to that i say go fuck yourself.

Louisville, any personal recs for air conditioning service? We got majorly taken for a ride on our mid-winter furnace replacement and, ominously, it seems like our AC may need to be replaced as well

Well, tomorrow is the last day of care at the University of Louisville's Early Learning Campus, its renowned and beloved childcare center. It's being shut down for purported budgetary reasons—a decision made in secret by administrators who made zero effort of any kind to achieve a better outcome.

So are we thinking a 13-member Supreme Court by Valentine’s Day 2029 or should we go to 15 to be on the safe side?

Office rubber plant is so happy to be home and outdoors for the summer that I had to take a horizontal photo to get all its leaves in

Speed Art Museum: Lougenheim

I just remembered that the dean of the music school at my undergrad mentioned on more than one occasion that he didn't think the urinals were getting enough use in the men's restrooms. On some basis or other he suspected that people were going into the stalls just to pee. Why he cared: very unclear

Little Blue Truck Was on the road Taking a drive With good friend Spode

I feel like purveyors of public outdoor spaces have generally not updated their approach to shade for the fact that we now live in a blast furnace

When there’s a music paper in Science or Nature: