“In creating his own music, Saxton refuses to hew to any sort of stylistic orthodoxy,” writes Christian Carey. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8001155... @cbcarey.bsky.social

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

My review of Stile Antico's concert in New York last weekend. www.sequenza21.com/2025/11/stil...

If any of my higher ed colleagues need a visiting music professor for Spring 2026, let me know.

Dick Durbin wanted his legacy to be killing your mother because she can’t afford cancer treatment.

Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Things are very bad. Need to find my way to the next thing.

Brought to you by Senate Democrats: "How to gain a mandate and lose it in less than a week." #shutdown

Donald Trump has asked his employees on the Supreme Court to overrule lower court orders demanding that he fulfill his duties to feed Americans who are due SNAP benefits AND He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.

I'm kind of into brunching in the protestant deep south because if you're a heathen you really can beat the church crowd. There's actually a church crowd to beat!

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

Pope Leo:

If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari outside of Speaker Mike Johnson's office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.

My review of Susumu Yokota's "Grinning Cat." dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7994814...

It's also almost the exact amount Republicans cut Medicaid by earlier this year

this truly is the thing that brings me real joy because this is the piece that’s replicable everywhere. if enough of us show up, their millions of dollars in dark money, bribes and attack ads accomplish nothing. Mamdani is clearly a generational talent but he won’t be the only one we find if we look

Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.

One week ago the owner of my local bodega told me he didn’t do politics. Tonight he was wearing a NYC “I voted” sticker, saw me and smiled. “I changed my mind,” he said.

I didn’t know you could spell Cuomo with 2 L’s

This is how a real President is supposed to act

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

Craven Faults' latest single. youtu.be/V2zNtlR5ZdU?...

Two cats, one lap.

Mavis Staples on Colbert: youtu.be/93iJcfvkdYw?... #mavisstaples #antirecords

Don't discard the good because you expect perfection. #Vote2025

Today in class, Deep Listening, the album, the ethos, and the implications for our creative work. #PaulineOliveros #Musicsince1900class #deeplistening

Blue Note's "RVG Edition" series was my gateway into jazz. The CDs were $10 a piece (IIRC) and allowed me to explore the classics as a high school student with a part time job.

Finished a review for Dusted Magazine of Susumu Yokota's "Grinning Cat," a reissue.

Elephant 6 deserves reappraisal. Listening to a 2008 album by #Elfpower, and it easily exceeds anything Arcade Fire has released in a decade.

This incarnation hasn't worked out well, and nothing on the horizon suggests it will improve.

My review of Chris Thile at the 92nd Street Y: www.sequenza21.com/2025/10/chri... @nonesuch.com

Today I'm talking with the students about the classical recording industry in the 1990s. #teaching #rideruniversity

Sounds like it’s the GOP that’s playing politics with people’s livelihoods. Hold the line, Dems.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you have friends struggling through the shutdown, consider inviting them over for a family dinner this week. Make too much. Insist they take leftovers home. Some folks can't say they need help out loud but will appreciate the kindness.

An appreciation of Andrea Gibson: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/173... #poet

‘If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.” -- Betty Ford

Color me shocked. They’re ALL such goddamn hypocrites.

it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

Erika Dohi's "Myth of Tomorrow" is out today, and the title track is streaming at #sequenza21. www.sequenza21.com/2025/10/erik...

I deal with actors coming into an existing show, and when I first see them, I ask them if they have any tattoos or piercings I should know about. I'm just a lowly costume designer, but it seems like the DNC should add that line to their intake form.