Please let TACO be real.

I wasn't going to travel to Hartford next April for this great program, but then I listened to the IVES Ragtime Dances last night and now I'm pretty convinced I need to go.

I just remembered that I have a Hostess Ding Dong in the door of my car. How’s your night going?

Never before have I seen the vibe of Tulum and Ibiza brought to life so perfectly. 🙄

Remember that episode of Seinfeld when Elaine got stuck in a room with a lot of steam and it made her hair and makeup look so terrible the guy in all denim wouldn't go out with her?

Is anyone else excited that the Rochester (NY) Phil is releasing their 26/27 season tomorrow? Need to figure out if my planned trip to Buffalo for Vaughan Williams S#2 can be combined with an RPO concert.

I came across a list of musical fiction I got from the late Jenny Colvin of Reading Envy when I did her podcast on that very topic. She died around the time my husband did so I feel like I’m experiencing some delayed grief. She was a lovely person and I wish she was still around.

During college I worked at a shop that served the occasional sandwich and one of my high school aged coworkers cut the bread and made a sandwich that looked very much like this. The customer was not pleased.

How it started and how it’s going.

“Suiting” Shirting Pantsing Socking Shorting Skirting Shoeing Dressing Dumbing

I just had a dream that a store was selling a giant version of a gummy cheeseburger, except it was a real cheeseburger in a thick layer of aspic.

Certainly doesn't look like Carnegie Hall. Uncomfortable seats? Poor patron circulation/nowhere to stand out of the way during intermission? Not enough bathrooms? Funded by a robber baron? I wonder what the connection is.

I realize that a headline about the Army's Top Chaplain refers to rank, but it also makes me think of an idea for a reality show.

The first of my 26/27 Season trips comes into focus and it includes Amy Beach in Grand Rapids sandwiched by Belshazzar's Feast in Chicago and Bernstein's Serenade in Detroit. (And Joan Tower on two different programs!)

Someone sent me this.

The first of my 26/27 Season trips comes into focus and it includes Amy Beach in Grand Rapids sandwiched by Belshazzar's Feast in Chicago and Bernstein's Serenade in Detroit. (And Joan Tower on two different programs!)

How big is Kristi Noem’s house that she never stumbled across a set of giant fake boobs? (That weren’t hers.)

When you get to page 60 and can’t keep all the characters straight. Richmal Crompton was never afraid of a crowd.

Three days ago I was listening to BMOP's wonderful recording of Foss' The Prairie and thinking how much I would like to hear it live. Then yesterday I stumble across a performance in three weeks right in my own backyard by the Oratorio Society of Minnesota.

Ever heard of Brahms' Gesang der Parzen? Neither had I. The Richmond (Virginia) Symphony Orchestra is doing it next season.

Today it’s chamber BACEWICZ, BAX, and CHAUSSON.

Been listening to the BACEWICZ all week, can’t wait to hear it live. (The @minnesotaorchestra.org also doing some unknown pieces by RACHMANINOFF and RIMSKY-KORSAKOV)

Over 100,000 people here at the #NoKings rally in St. Paul Minnesota. This amazing crowd continues to grow. Our country belongs to all of us, not one person. Trump is forgetting this. He acts like he owns America. He does not. On this day from Alaska to Maine we remind him!

My friend Colin’s sign for today’s No Kings protest. #nokings #bruce #nuremberg

Wow. It's my lucky day.

Not only is the SF Symphony doing Vaughan Williams 5 next season, they are also playing it on tour to three other California cities. That's a lot of VW exposure...

Okay the San Francisco Symphony brochure team needs to be fired. Don't put your concert programs in narrative format. How fucking annoying.

I just discovered SF, Utah, and Rochester dropped their seasons today and I have to go to a meeting for the rest of the day. an.ti.ci.pa.tion

I'd be so bummed if my home orchestra had an MD who was this boring. Stutzmann did manage to actually include one piece by a living composer in her 26/27 Atlanta season, but good God. She even repeats two pieces from the previous season.

I’m at ICE HQ

All the sustainable energy in the world isn't going to save us from the impact of global consumerism. Seeing the markets and shops--new, used, and flea in Paris, has me determined to redouble of my efforts to not buy new furniture or "decor"...and to stop buying shitty clothes off the internet.

What the ever living fuck.

For consideration: The Alcotts movement from the Concord Sonata is IVES' equivalent to ELGAR's Nimrod Variation. Noble, reflective, and has the ability to be uplifting and sad at the same time. (I guess I could toss BARBER's Adagio into the mix as well, and I suppose the list could go on...)

These are everywhere in the newish 2E terminal at CDG. I’m not the only one who tried to put trash in it.

This typeface shouldn’t be used after primary school, and certainly not on the Paris Metro.

I’m old. I miss the Paris of the 90s. Just had some time to kill and thought I would have a browse at Shakespeare & Co. Even if I wanted to stand in that line, what would that experience even be like? Are you only given so many seconds in front of each shelf?

Death angles

Even the Paris Flea Market knows the assignment.

Here’s hoping the Paris Opera production doesn’t suck like the one in Berlin did last year.

I’ll need to update my resume, I’ve won the JFK Profile in Courage Award. …is all I was going to write in a humorous vein, but so many people gave so much more than me, including Renee Good and Alex Pretti, that it feels wrong to even make that joke. It does make me glad to be a Minnesotan again.

New rule: Check my list and don’t leave the country with a book I’ve already read. Still, I’ve come across many brilliant passages in the first ten pages.

Hey, Chicago! Found dog! Picked up this sweet fuzz bucket at W Flournoy and Oakley. Has a microchip, but came up empty on owner information.

I hope French jackhammerists don’t work on the weekend.

I’m going to tell my kids this is St Paul.

In France getting cancer.

I’m going to tell my kids this is Duluth. In March.

Doesn’t taste like shit.