Reading the replies and quote posts with interest because my personal writing style is to draft directly in pristine, finished prose that I produce at the rate of one word every billion years

10 or so repeat viewings of this clip will cure what ails you. Actually, better make it 20 just to be safe

Happy to sign this as a graduate alum. Awful cuts that remind me of what’s going on at my own current institution.

Haha how cool is this midcentury modern Acrosonic

And who wouldn’t be tempted to leave the door just a little ajar?

I would buy the book-length version of this thread on the brilliance of the English ""translation"" of the Les Miz lyrics

I would buy the book-length version of this thread on the brilliance of the English ""translation"" of the Les Miz lyrics

IMAGINE thinking that national Dems are going to be in the mood for this scoldy hippie-punching bullshit after two more years of the ongoing nightmare. I think it's been clear for some time that he doesn't have the 2028 juice but never more so than now.

I guess somebody sent them a link to "Crescendo Doesn't Mean Climax, You Idiots," an extremely short-lived tumblr that I maintained for a week or so in 2016

No particular idea why this ended up on my youtube home page tonight but it's never bad to be reminded that you could live a very pleasant life listening to absolutely nothing except Japanese jazz and funk from the 1970s

It's basically unheard-of for a university to employ the actual academic expertise of its own faculty in producing knowledge about its own functioning instead of consultant-style blather serving a predetermined agenda

LFG

Taking those degrees off the books doesn’t hurt because we at Ohio State have a flexible BA in Music that can serve the same purpose by adding electives.

I find it very weird that one of the few things Buster Posey—who as a player was notable for businesslike non-redassery—has been willing to articulate about his philosophy as an executive is that he wants the Giants to start being a bunch of redass jerks

I see they’re axing their undergrad degrees in music theory and musicology as well. OSU has an outstanding music theory program and (no inside knowledge) I would bet you that the faculty maintain this small major on top of their regular teaching load at a cost of zero additional resources

Just had a full body matrix-style memory of what it Feels Like to be in Louisville Kentucky. people who have not lived in Louisville Kentucky cannot understand this

"I live in Edina. No joke" is one of the funniest things I've ever read

No need to subtweet me Vance

After a final large vowel spiral,

just awful, really. one of the great weirdo institutions. it only occurred to me as an adult that it's possible for things like schools & libraries & hospitals to just, like, close. and it sucks.

I feel like a huge square but I just can’t get into natural-process coffees

how is Yonkers the name of a real place and not the signature curse word of some kids' TV cartoon villain

It continues to be an ironclad law of nature that 50% of the conversations I have with audience members after concerts are about how my iPad knows when to turn the page

At our concert tonight, I'm going to give some opening remarks to the audience including having the group play some brief excerpts of the piece so people know what to listen for. What kind of thing do you appreciate hearing on such occasions? For example ...

I got unreasonably lucky in happening to pick up this series a couple months ago, in the very year in which the third and final book is going to come out. Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto are both so good I can hardly believe it.

I was just noticing that the San Francisco Giants play well on some days and poorly on other days and I guess what I’m saying is that I have a little suggestion for them

You guys think it’s fine if I do this in the concert? Is it better or worse if I also add a tennis player “Come on!!”?

The American right wing will be happy with the state of higher education on the day the last university closes its doors forever and not a minute sooner, and all of their purported concerns and wishes for higher ed can only be understood on that basis

Local coffee place has a “carrot cake latte” on their spring menu, which I assume is a seasonal rebrand of a pumpkin spice latte and I respect the hustle

You guys think it’s fine if I do this in the concert? Is it better or worse if I also add a tennis player “Come on!!”?

whenever people announce they're taking a break from bluesky, it's usually because they're astronauts experiencing a mandatory communications blackout as they re-enter earth's atmosphere. that's why they always come back in six minutes

Baltimore’s City Connects look fantastic

How fun to have spoken at length with LPM for this piece about Dvorak's Piano Quintet no. 2, which I'm performing with my group NouLou Chamber Players on Monday evening!

It's good to practice on an out-of-tune piano because you'll just focus on getting your work done efficiently and not get baited into playing too much by how good the instrument sounds

do not dasterb

Some of you are worried about ai stealing your job, however, I am currently editing ai closed captions and today found out what ai does when captioning solfège, so I am no longer concerned about this possibility

now they're doing some experiments in the "make a big pinecone soup in a galvanized washtub" schema. through consensus of course. they're speaking one of the 100 languages of childhood, the "pinecones in a washtub" language

Any day you get to say "I have been training for this day my entire life" is a good day

how it's going

I got an email from a textbook publisher asking if I happened to have a personal backup of all the project files from a music recording project we did a decade ago, since they lost track of them in a server migration, and I'd just like to say thank you for validating my never delete anything policy

I have seen one good example of this plate

When I’m playing along with the vocal parts during choir rehearsal, it takes so much more concentration to play just the alto and tenor parts than to play all four parts, even though it’s literally half the number of notes. Music and brains, man

When I heard that they were going to be wearing eclipse goggles I briefly wondered whether they’d be some astronaut-only heavy-duty ones or the same disposable cardboard ones we all had in 2024 and 2017, and I love that it’s the latter

All the coverage today has made me think about one of Neal Stephenson's better novels, Seveneves, whose first sentence is: "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason."

God help me, I will be watching this, from the eastern time zone, and on a Monday night

Our neighbors have had this horrendous dog for the last decade that aggressively barks and snarls through the metal fence at everyone who walks by and makes people feel unsafe and makes kids cry. It seems to have finally died and they *instantly* got another one that behaves the same way

i never expected a "yep real sexy just like you asked boss" about the colonel, but that's on me for letting my guard down

Relatable