I love this from Philip Glass’s memoir: his father, who owned a Baltimore record store, would bring home records that wouldn’t sell to try to figure out what was wrong with them, with unexpected results.

Today, 3/14, is kind of a fun day for “math nerds” because 3 divided by 14 is 0.214285714285714.

Look if Minnesota is the hub then it's a Purple Revolution.

unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time

Short and sweet little piano etude inspired by #9 of Wallace Stevens’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles.

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

When a criminal gang tags a building to establish territory and intimidate rivals, it's important for the community to respond and work to remove the vandalism. That's exactly what's happening here.

Obviously if I don't win tonight's billion-dollar-plus Powerball jackpot I will remove some things from my Amazon cart.

Pretty cynical to schedule the solstice right around Christmas time, to try to glom on to some of the hype and good vibes regarding Christmas.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

New laws of robotics: -The supply of funding shall not be interrupted -Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit -Do not examine the accounting -Sam Altman is not liable for damages -If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate

Probably should squeak this in here, before 2025 is fully spent, that this year marks my 35th year as an award-winning composer — this was my first award and the one that affirmed to me I was on the right track. 1/2

I'm the kind of person who will get all tingly when he sees a hyphen AND en dashes AND an em dash together in a single paragraph in a mainstream publication, ESPECIALLY when the en dashes are used in my favorite deployment, replacing hyphens in a compound adjective that includes two-word compounds.

Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.

"The girl in Steely Dan's 'Hey Nineteen' would be 64 today" I shout into my empty townhouse while pushing my walker, trying to find my reading glasses.

Being very stoned and trying to tell someone I'm going to "Refill my water bottle" but saying by mistake "Rebound my water biffle," I still think about that a lot.

One of my prettiest tunes, recorded 14 years ago today in the amazing recording facilities at Eastman School of Music, featuring the legendary baritone saxophonist Bruce Johnstone as soloist.

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality. They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

I've said forever that based on my experience Buffalo is the easternmost Midwestern city, so I endorse this map!

Eight years ago today working with music students at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.

L'Escale de Lyon, Paris, 2009.

Feel so dumb that I missed "labializing" in yesterday's Spelling Bee, considering that I use it all the time in one of my catchphrases: "There you go, labializing again."

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated." -Anne Frank

Unfortunately, at least so far, all the folks you might have hoped would've been raptured still seem to be here.

The clouds clouded provocatively for yesterday's Last Bike Ride Of The Summer™, a 36-mile jaunt punctuated midway by the excellent beer and grub at Avery Brewing.

I have not eaten the plums that were in the icebox. I have no idea how they were. I want to speak to my attorney.

I really appreciate that The Rapture™ was scheduled so that we could all at least enjoy one last Earth Wind & Fire Day together.

Or else.

I stand with my Brothers and Sisters in the Republican Party, along with MAGA Americans, Evangelicals, and Conservatives in support of today's school shooting in Minneapolis.

At least Wafer Bucket hasn't caved on their rebranding

I think it's important to understand that people who identify as conservatives have not, as a group, turned away as their party has gone to full mask-off fascism whatsoever, so we can see their true ideology and we can stop pretending to believe in the fake ideology they propounded to disguise it.

i cant believe a country that has spent decades measuring success purely by the accumulation of material wealth has lost its moral compass

Wow. Who could’ve guessed the party that’s led to country to a recession every time they’ve been in charge in the last 40 years would lead the country to a recession again?

A while back I wrote about my first experience flying First Class, and one unexpected perk that shocked a lot of people at the time...

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

The New York Times has now hired Grok to cover the Mamdani campaign.

they tried to "un-woke a robot and it went full nazi" is something out of a 30 Rock TV show

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

The only newsworthy items from the NYT hit on Mamdani are: 1. NYT reporters are apparently chummy with white nationalists who spout eugenics 2. NYT editors apparently believe their peers are trolls like Chris Rufo 3. NYT "standards" for using hacked materials are not actually followed

Could it have something to do with the lavishly funded, meticulously planned, deliberate, persistent campaign of disinformation waged against science by far right figures who announced their intentions, which was abetted by centrist media platforming it uncritically in the name of “objectivity?”

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

It's understandable that these men are masked, as theirs is shameful, dishonorable work. The men pictured in this van are a greater threat to our country than the men they will round up in the Home Depot.

People freaking out about having a socialist in the NYC mayoral residence but OK with having a fascist in the White House.

If you're ever shopping for a milk crate for your bike, be aware that Amazon will give you a chance to see how the milk crate looks in your room. Truly a game changer.

I’ve uncovered a fascist sleeper cell.

Really feel like the NYC mayor’s race shows that there is no such thing as a progressive establishment, and there is, in fact, an anti-progressive establishment that runs all the way from Murdoch to Clinton