Pushing to program this because I want to have fun; @juddgreenstein.bsky.social this piece is awesome youtu.be/IS7lR2kZ9IQ

If there’s a parallel on another instrument anyone can name, freakish things that sound amazing someone figured out how to do that nobody else can, I’d love to know

This technique is just constantly jaw dropping, jester hats notwithstanding youtu.be/BKcTn-FGTKM

We’re just innocent men

"Escapism taken to extremes is a slow poison, and it will eventually separate you from everything you love." @glassethound.bsky.social finds quiet environmental horror underneath Pokopia's cute veneer:

Mmm just dropping this always-relevant piece here hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/t...

Quentin Tarantino’s Titanic

important step for seasoning

ok so microwaving sweet potato actually works really well? it took me 4 decades to use the potato button on the microwave

It’s the annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference and I really wish early musos had a bigger presence on BlueSky! For the past couple of years I haven’t been able to attend in-person or online, but I wish I could see the highlight reel of skeets! #MedRen2026

Today I ran 5k for the first time in two years (37:01). I hope I can keep it up when school starts

in San Francisco this week with toddler, what should I do

Ran a full mile without stopping (10:38) for the first time in who knows how long, maybe there is hope

I didn’t know about this

I wrote about how algorithmic recommendations just don’t have taste Also a July concert update for Bay Area folks buttondown.com/doodlyroses/...

The Internet promised to make information free and easily accessible, and we all feel it has enshittified in various ways into something else. What’s the best version of The Promise you can think of? Websites that are free not scammy and seem too good to exist?

Music Theory Online is such a cool publication www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.2...

beans on toast functionally equals pb&j, fight me

BBB clerk whispers: *we’ve already reached the beyond*

Fun? In this economy?

Morpheus: If you take the red pill, you’ll see the Matrix. Your reality is all just ones and zeroes. Me: [sweating] I didn’t know there would be math.

So thrilled to share Phil Gentry’s video for the Society for American Music’s Digital Lectures series! At once a walking tour, an oral history, and a timely reflection on the transformation of a historically significant place over time. Watch this Fourth of July weekend!

I’m deeply intrigued but also suspicious because “cold brew coffee” is poison that should not be consumed by humans

I changed my mind in grad school and decided that chords aren’t real

Here's one for me: When I was 15 I wrote "MUSIC IS SOUND AND THAT'S THAT!!!" in my journal. Now almost all the music I write deals in some way with how music carries meaning.

Do people not know that there are at least ten musicologists on here who want to explain the answer to your music question to you so badly that they will drop everything to do it?

senior academics to junior ones:

today I learned you can just make a spiced roux instead of using curry bricks for Japanese-style curry and now I’m excited to do it many more times

I can’t stop laughing

My students are always learning my six sacred techniques then trying to use them against me in battle. Obviously I'm going to use the secret seventh technique to defeat them. Every day with this.

The guy had layers, gotta admit

Finally, my calling is here!

one of my special talents is that I can drink a can of la croix in three seconds

This is the case even though the AP theory curriculum makes a fairly weak case for what’s great about music theory — much college theory teaching is much richer!

Oh THIS, big time.

preserved lemonade is this anything

trying to do “loss leader” style business growth with a credit card, hmm

Paper mail is NOT dying take it back

I don’t care about beef wellington

Someone wearing a Google fiber vest came up to door and asked if we had been experiencing any outages, I said no, we don’t use Google fiber, they asked who, I mentioned our provider, they left. I’m pretty sure it was a scam, but don’t understand the angle. I’m not worried, but left wondering

I have said out loud that “I feel like I forgot how to read for fun” in the last five years or so after exams and dissertation and parenthood. I’ve tried reading for fun and failed; received books as gifts and been totally unable to read them. But in the last two days I picked up a random book and

how much did it cost I’ll pay

Texts cost me 10 cents to *recieve* in 2011. I had email and internet on my Blackberry (RIP) but I refused to text. And yeah, in 2002, we had no internet, but the phones cost maybe $100 and didn't break when dropped.

If I wanted to take a 2-ish day trip to Minneapolis with toddler, what things should I definitely do

What is the best sauce or ideally dip for steamed broccoli, asking for a toddler

these are dumplings, thanks

a restaurant in Rochester, NY, has the best smoked tofu I can even imagine existing and I swear they marinate it in hot dog water, I asked a server once but they deny it

Post-exertional malaise from ME/CFS doesn’t make sense to people who haven’t seen it. It’s horrible. I wish people wouldn’t make moral judgements when they don’t know anything

How many parents have had toddlers that basically won’t eat dinner unless you are reading a book to them