KEEP HONKING I'M LISTENING TO THE HONEYED LIES OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

Playing the Britten serenade again would fix me

Emotional needs met for next week with this one lick

Well alright

Am I playing all the new Jeff tyzik charts this year? Played “back to the 80s” in August, and now I’m playing “yacht rock” with all the same singers. Different orchestra. But kinda wild how many pre packed shows he has now.

damn these epstein emails are crazy

Grown men keep coming up to me, big burley men, Staten Island's finest, tears in their eyes. "I can handle a lot," they say to me weeping "but I'm terrified about a mayor who wants free childcare and affordable housing."

When I learned about the Olympics in 1st grade I was told that there had consistently been an Olympics since ancient times in Greece. I just learned recently that the modern version of it was started by some weird French guy??? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_...

Me as I run my NAS with plex and my private cloud drive for downloaded classical music concerts…

the newly released Epstein emails are getting coverage on Fox News 👀

Fixed a 7th grader’s funky embouchure and I feel on top of the world.

Getting music school flashbacks by it being November, and I’m so tired that I’m about to sleep under a piano. The difference is it’s in my office, and I’m getting paid to sleep under the piano.

Breaking News: Tatsuya Nakadai, the Japanese film star known for “Ran” and other classic movies, has died at 92.

I’m working on learning a bit of Gotterdammerung every month, because I’m honestly not sure what I’m going to play with there being so much offstage horn throughout the opera.

Just wait till they learn about marching band practice

asking the loan officer if i can pay down the 50 year mortgage in posts

Tonight with the SCphil! Kind of a face melter of a concert, but fun stuff!

oh my god

every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet

Every time I play Grieg I think about he was a short king

Rick in the house

Wandering around Columbia, SC until rehearsal.

Me when Google or Meta gives me an AI summary of something I never asked for.

Accidentally swore in front of my student after she told me she was playing Howard Hanson's 2nd symphony next semester: "oh man that part fucking slaps"

It’s happened to me; I have started getting AI generated videos of various people playing and talking about the horn. AI generated horns are a crime against nature. They have 6-8 valves and none of them are a High F side or a stopping valve.

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

I detest writing cover letters. My letter writing style has been described as: AI before AI existed.

Headed to a wedding. I have no idea how to act as part of an audience.

With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.

Sometimes I think about the fact I played an outdoor concert at the Donner Pass.

[jeopardy] me: *finishes off gallon of milk* ken jennings: jerry, you control the board

Decided to watch Pluribus on Apple TV, and the first 30 minutes are incredibly upsetting post covid…

Sometimes you hear a bit of your playing from 10 years ago… and I think “ woah, who was that person?”

It’s been… nearly 5 years since I graduated. It’s taken this long to have any professor jobs that are feasible for me to apply to. I am so rusty on interviewing.

Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”. We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want. Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”

When the horror movie you thought you were watching turns out to be a joyous celebration of life

Yep, I teach my students about all the interviews conducted by WPA workers, all the murals painted and National Parks improved. It gave rise to public history as we know it, generating so many jobs and teaching so many skills in the process. I think about what we could be preserving and teaching.

Wooooo I am 10 pounds away from being able to do a bodyweight pull up

Sandwich man leaving court

They freed Jared?

the speed at which RFK books it out of there is incredible

New from Symphony: Diego Incertis Sánchez Named Principal Horn at San Francisco Symphony

Kate Wagner: 1 Saudi Arabia: 0

They need to do it in Cairo.

each of them represents one of the five elements: Fire, Metal, Air, Water, and Anti-Trust.