Thank you Benito, for the music and also helping us gringas practice Spanish

I know they were probably $800 but why is Jack Antonoff wearing jeans

Carole King looks like a music theory professor

Me: “who the hell is working sound for this Grammys broadcast?” My spouse: “B@ri Weiss, of course”

10/10 ICE protest sign

Ice luminaries on Lake Nokomis, which is on a flight path from MSP airport. #ICEout

Meanwhile…

Hello from Minneapolis

I miss my friend, Melissa. This is a beautiful piece about her life. 💚 🌳 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

Why is every goddamn band for pop artists artist all male? You’re telling me you can’t find one lady who plays an instrument?

Sorry #amsmt25 folks you missed the Minneapolis northern lights by 2 days

I miss all my #amsmt25 friends already. Thank you for coming to Minneapolis! The end of the conference is pretty anticlimactic when you live here.

Hey, I feel like they're not publicizing this much, but SMT is doing free livestreams of selected sessions. Info is gathered here: minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/smt-hybrid-s... #amsmt25

It’s not a day that ends in Y until a tiny hand is dunked inside your first cup of coffee

Does every musician parent think that their slightly musical baby is a genius? Asking for me.

Why Dave Matthews talk like that

I watch this weekly 😭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkPS...

I beg you: please stop calling them “faculty retreats” when it’s just a mandatory six-hour faculty meeting in the same building you spend all your time in anyway.

vocal fry implies the existence of vocal onion ring and vocal tater tot

Oh my god I hate this goddamn holiday if you wake my baby up I will go outside in my underwear and slap someone

As a part of Bon Iver's Changemaker partnership with the Minnesota Lynx, donations have been given to 13 Minnesota and Western Wisconsin non-profits. These organizations work to address gender inequities, domestic abuse, and/or gender violence. Learn more: 2abillion.org

New England-born mom miraculously wakes to the tornado siren and heads to basement with infant in one arm and senior dog in another

Hats off to the dude playing Dona Nobis Pacem on sousaphone in the middle of Summit Ave on a Monday at noon

I knew within 0:03 sec of listening to “Manchild” that it was produced by Jack Antonoff. They way this man has a chokehold on us, please let go!!!

Gift link - "Heather Holcombe, a senior lecturer in the English department, said ...That single executive’s salary could fund the hiring of 11 full-time instructors to run 66 classes" www.startribune.com/university-o...

Today at the pediatrician I watched a dad completely forget his son’s birth date in real time. Sometimes I can’t believe shit is real.

My dog is named Leroy, so every day is Leeeeroy Jenkins day in this house

I was living in NY, not MN, and volunteering at a bib pickup for a half marathon. The race director stepped away to cry. Someone’s vowed to run the race in a Prince costume and was immediately given the bib number 1999.

The video for this new Bon Iver song is a mixture of the opening sequence from Love Actually and the entire vibe of How To With John Wilson youtu.be/yaPX-i1TjCc?...

At a Twins game and we’re sitting next to two boys that are the human versions of Sid from Toy Story

New parenting technique unlocked: entertaining the baby by practicing my yodeling technique

One of the best feelings in the world is walking or biking faster than gridlocked traffic full of single-occupant cars

Proud to be a Connecticut native for only a couple weeks a year This is a masterclass in basketball

“Sweet Caroline,” as the only context for listening to this song is hearing 38 drunk cousins sing along

Hey @jakeblount.com!

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source

What marketing agency did mitochondria hire to get branded as “the powerhouse of the cell” to every damn middle schooler.

Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper time When Pizzaballa is a pope, you can have pizza anytime

It finally happened: I called the baby by the dog’s name

Herbie Hancock out here using charts at the #grammys makes me feel better about having a horrible memory

It’s a #beansky kinda night

Me every fall, and there are 90 students

If you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1. music theorist (I was weird) 2. Music ed 3. Added music theory, bc I am weird 4. Music theory prof (still weird)

One of my favorite parts of a Minnesota winter is that tap water is the perfect drinking temperature

Extremely smart move of past Alyssa and friends to schedule an afternoon at the bathhouse/spa on 1/20 way in October.

Q: Why is Costco closed on New Year's Day? A: January 1 is the traditional day on which Costco employees harvest all of the hot dogs for the year from the vast Costco wiener farms. Hundreds of thousands of wiener shrubs will be stripped bare in this celebration of bounty.

I now invite you all to (re)watch the episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry tires quickly of addressing everyone with “Happy New Year!” Let’s agree to stop this by Sunday, ok???

Jimmy Carter hosted a concert featuring some of the greatest jazz musicians in June 1978. The list is astonishing.

While some of us are talking about A Complete Unknown, i recommend reading Merrill Markie’s piece on how Toshi Seeger was minimized in the film. She has barely any lines. open.substack.com/pub/merrillm...