in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co

off to a homecoming rehearsal to strap a drum on to this old-ass body (with a back brace). a voice in my head sometimes says, "i should learn to play flute or something", but that gets squashed. I may not be a great percussionist, but I *am* a percussionist for life, and I wouldn't trade that

making up a recipe tonight that is primarily a bunch of stuff that needs used in the fridge

what's next, myspace?

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

i've been meaning to put together a monthly email newsletter as an alternative to fighting social media algorithms. That's now finally happening. Nov issue out friday. if you're inclined to hear me ramble about my professional (and sometimes personal) life, sign up is at the bottom of mendellee.com

Get to know your mutuals! List 10 random things you like. in no particular order: 1. Non-serifed fonts 2. Chopping vegetables 3. Asymmetry 4. Animals As Leaders 5. Spreadsheets 6. Eve Beglarian 7. Non-traditional relationships 8. the newest Last Dab hot sauce 9. So Clover 10. Art Deco

maybe i'll just cook all day today to destress

Saints win!

what a game. Nice to see Taysom get back into his groove and for Shough to play such a solid QB game #WhoDat #Saints

what a throw by Shough and catch by Olave! #WhoDat

Interception! #WhoDat ⚜️

okay I'll take that, but still, it shouldn't have come to that in the first place #WhoDat #Saints

that's a lot of BS #WhoDat

Overall #Saints have looked good in both defense *and* offense this game. Small victories #WhoDat

happy #caturday everybody

new Clark album released today, been listening to it both actively and passively. Generally I like it, I just wish all of the tracks were longer. good example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D13b...

i see a lot of concert postings and can't help but notice we're moving back away from diverse programming. it'd be great to not pat ourselves on the back too quickly and avoid going back to business as usual.

so rather randomly I'll be soon creating an LLC for domain hosting/website design for louisiana-based arts individuals and nonprofits at a deep discount, and it's annoying to me how my plan to pitch "No AI" as a company policy would be broadly perceived as shooting myself in the foot

partner discovered the FF Tactics update. Weird to have voice actors. And narrative text that moves at a normal pace

Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

what a day

MAMDANI!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

started playing @terrycavanaghgames.com's "Egg" at a time when I have no eggs in the house for breakfast and our car is still in the shop. Poor planning on my part

long but worth it article

If you see this, quote with a vampire other than Dracula

give 'em hell tomorrow @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

writing for 18 percussionists is interesting

so now that I'm not traveling for a long stretch, I've been feeling tired pretty much the entire time i've been home. It's as if all of the travel I did in Oct has caught up to me and now I want to take a weeks-long nap to recouperate

let's go shuck (yes I know it's spelled shough) #WhoDat

all I can say is that if I was the saints defense, I works be immensely frustrated with the offense rn #whodat

my partner has been spending halftime looking up PI opinions online bc she feels very strongly that that last play before the half should have def been a PI call. #WhoDat

wow the stadium was loud for those 4 downs #nola #whodat

tomorrow i will have spent every sat in oct in a different city for a different reason: 10/4 in Amana IA for a wedding 10/11 in Ellensburg WA for a new music festival 10/18 in Portland OR for a performing gig 10/24 in Nashville TN for a funeral wild

rip adam. thanks for the board games. www.crawfordservices.com/obituary/ada...

I know I'm home when second line is blasting over the airport speakers #nola

just landed and it's taking forever for them to get the ramp to us to let us disembark, must be bc of the AWS outage

Incredible photograph from New Orleans' No Kings rally which will be in the morning paper here. Doesn't look like a "Hate America rally" to me.

i love the food culture of New Orleans, but god damn i forgot how much i missed high quality korean food from the PNW This ghost pepper ramen I got in pdx was absolutely amazing

adjduicating 72 compositional profiles (2 works each) and 11 percussion profiles (3 work each) for YoungArts Classical over the next few weeks. a marathon of work, but a lot of fun seeing/hearing what the next generation of musicians/creatives are doing these days

CWU performance of my marimba duet is now up. It's short, about 4'10" One of the other composers after the performance asked "are those grad students?" I took pleasure in saying, "no, one is a sophomore and one is a junior." That percussion studio rocks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ8A...

Central Washington New Music Festival 2025 is a wrap. The students did an amazing job with my marimba duet, as I knew that they would. Looking forward to working with the CWU Percussion Ensemble in the future which now looks like a "when" rather than an "if" pics and vid are forthcoming

thanks to the NMF i'm at right now, I think I know what i want to do for the second movement of the large work I'm writing (in phases) for Mantra Percussion. Oh, also I guess I can now make public that i'm writing something for Mantra Percussion. Pretty stoked about it.

first evening of the CWUNMF now over, great stuff so far. now off to see what the late night poker scene is here in small town Central Washington

while in Iowa for a wedding, I was able to stop by @raygunsite.com in Iowa City and picked up a few things. (Didn't get the opossum postcard, but my partner did get the t-shirt version.) Thanks raygun!

today, after being a wedding party member for a woman who I love with all of my heart as a platonic life partner, I told my romantic life partner that I needed to field a call to assess a chaotic situation with the pregame performance with the Cincinnati Bengals. my life is gloriously weird

i'm cognizant of systemic racial biases and suppression in this country (US), but it still sincerely baffles me that a broad public sentiment that equates "celebration of diversity" to "unamerican" has such blatant support and traction