NYC! I have a spare ticket to the Modigliani Quartet at Carnegie Hall in the Weill Recital Hall tonight. 7:30 PM. Kurtag, Beethoven, & Brahms. I'm still going, my friend can't make it!

In Parsifal Gurnemanz's job is to be wrong and he's kept very busy

Maggie really loves her heater vent

Volta going all out for lounging in the windowsill

Sexy alice tully hall acoustic enhancement speaker system

Pärt at Carnegie Hall! This concert sold so quickly

Well today I am drinking tea; show doesn't start until 8!

Serious bird watching

Wisdom is knowing that ironing is perhaps not the best idea right now

Maybe it'll turn out alright this time

What a cast

Sunday afternoon at the NY Philharmonic with Boulez and Debussy

Pic from a few days ago when I was here earlier in the evening

Missed Kavalier & Clay on Monday but now I'm feeling better and they're offering discount orchestra seats so let's see how this is

@squishythings.com Hmmm, or should I say Hummm www.slideaway.co/nyc

My first NYPHIL concert of the season!

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

It has been more than 20 years since I've read Vineland so I'm not sure what to expect but if there's a battle it better be one and done

Use this YouTube link to watch my opera-- 6 PM Pacific, 9/19! It will also work after that, but don't you want to come hang out with me? 🥺 youtu.be/e_A94tDTpWY

If I get a chainmail outfit quick I can wear it to both the Renaissance Faire and the Chappell Roan concert

Every day, another choice

I think I expected more

Ritzy needed cuddles today

Figment is a ridiculous animal

Good job, idiots. Storing all your photos in the cloud has left no room for rain.

This is only the second time I've seen Lohengrin live. The first was just a week and a half ago in Munich

My first time seeing Georg Zeppenfeld

A few of the Bayreuth costumes at the Wagner Museum

I appreciate that my train from Nürnberg stopped in Pegnitz for a bit!

Was not feeling up to moving on to a new country so I'm still in Munich. I was supposed to be seeing Der Freischütz in Bregenz. The forecast looks rough (the opera doesn't start for another two hours) but for now the webcam looks incredibly lovely: bregenzerfestspiele.com/de/webcam

There are way more people out front looking for tickets for Rusalka than there have been the past few nights

I'm giving you up I've forgiven it all You set me free, oh Send my love to your new lover Treat her better We've gotta let go of all of our ghosts We both know we ain't kids no more

They've got harps in the fancy seats. Last night the upper set had trumpets

Lohengrin at BayStaats and Piotr Beczała sounds amazing, and we've gotten like three lines from Anja Kampe but I'm really looking forward to her second act

I must reluctantly accept that yes, all of the operas I'm seeing as part of Münchner Opernfestspiele have a dream as a prominent element But kinda loosely on both "dream" and "prominent" and the list of operas that don't might be shorter

First trip to Prinzregententheater for Pénélope

Renaissance lamb for @arthistory.bsky.social

Statue of Orlando di Lasso (and Michael Jackson memorial)

My "I didn't lock us out of the bedroom" shirt seems to be encouraging questions answered by my shirt

I neither know the play nor German well enough to see Ein Sommernachtstraum in the Englischen Garten the night I arrive in Munich, right?

Stopped by a friend's house to water their cars and feed the plants. This is Twitters (name changed to protect the innocent)

Linus Pauling was a brilliant chemist. Won two Nobel prizes. He was also very wrong about vitamins. He's why you might megadose Vitamin C when you're sick, despite the evidence not supporting it. We refuse to learn that a genius in 1 -- or even 2! -- areas doesn't make you a genius in all.

For the first time the local crows took the peanuts I put out for them!

I made the curious decision to finally watch Grounded from the Met. Music by Jeanine Tesori, libretto by George Brant. There was some fear the opera would be this meme. And I think it's not, really. It doesn't celebrate her being a woman at all, just punishes her for it.

It's not gaslighting my cats to tell them Bros is approx the best song ever if that was a belief I held when I made the claim

An evening of Julius Eastman!

I love my blue jay friend but that bird feeder is too small for you!

All I keep thinking about is how Mamdani ran on a broad and populist message about affordability and when centrists hyperfocused on identity to try and divide his coalition, he took it as an opportunity to not only defend his values but persuade new voters

imagine if this worked. IMAGINE IF THIS WORKED. imagine if the Epstein Caucus is defeated in an absolute tidal wave of voters who want their electeds to CARE and DO THINGS. imagine primarying all the nation’s Schumers and Pelosis with people who understand they work for us and take that seriously