Places I have visited that I’ve loved/have surprised me: New Orleans, LA. Will go back at any opportunity. Pittsburgh, PA. My climate change plan B. Santa Barbara, CA. Just beautiful. St. Pete, FL. I actually crave going there often, the drive just totally sucks.

What is incredible is that Imelda is moving AWAY from Florida.

Looks like Barney has finally had enough of Florida's bullshit.

In a weird place where I feel resigned to there not being another female Dem presidential nominee for a long time, but the male pundits and podcasters talking about how we need to center men even more and get worse on women’s issues absolutely ENRAGE me.

I won't be viewing or supporting the new HP HBO show. We already had a definitive adaptation of the wizarding world. I truly wish those resources had gone to adapt another fantasy series. There are SO many genre authors who deserve that kind of high budget visibility.

As someone who works with & guides 10-year-olds every single day, the remarks that JK Rowling has made toward Emma Watson are absolutely despicable. Christ on toast, they are awful.

My twist on this is Value Over Replacement City Given the background political, socioeconomic, and geographic context, which city punches most above its weight and which punches most below? It’s say Tulsa punches pretty high Hartford and New Haven punch low

The objective answer is Daytona Beach. Both as a resident & as a tourist. Unless you love NASCAR & getting sexually assaulted during Spring Break.

With alt text because this made me cry 😭

I know I can’t be an anarchist because I want legislation that says Rachel Price is the only white woman who is ever allowed to sing “I Want You Back.”

Double Nickels on the Dad.

Central Florida is home to the highest concentration of Puerto Rican diaspora in the US. Many more came after Hurricane Maria in 2017. Needless to say, in 2022 we had many parents come to Meet the Teacher in their Bad Bunny shirts. (Concert was the same night. That was good parenting!)

This is going to make for a really terrible strawberry festival season.

I really thought it was gonna be Springsteen but I hope Benito doesn’t speak a word of English the whole time.

Greetings from House of Blues Orlando (at Disney Springs). Opening band is Trousdale, they just covered “The Chain” so you know they didn’t come here to mess around. Lake Street Dive will (hopefully) come on by 9. I have to teach tomorrow. Pray for me.

(unions inventing sunday evening) we need a dedicated time to worry about the workweek

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights! Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede... #TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia

A lot of people chattering about that NY Times abundance guy again, but I’lol politely suggest you click this free link to his column because Ta-Nehisi Coates very effectively pantses him & lifts up humanism in a way I rarely see in newspapers under authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Kid & I talk about this all the time!!

And that is it!!

Here’s the video of something we did, starting with third graders. Mistake-free pentatonic improv, made possible by removeable “fa” and “ti” bars. Lesson plan from the Game Plan curriculum. I was so new at this school I didn’t have anything on the walls!!!!

I don’t know *all* of the research based reasons behind this but I do it this way in my solfege warm-ups. So much of Western music relies on the “sol-mi” so that goes first. Key of D is usually where we start with kindergarten, as well.

Revenge Procrastination Bedtime hell tonight. I log on here because why not & read every post & story about The Discourse & then I hate myself. I watch trailers — not episodes, trailers!!!! of Netflix shows & find out that the Orange Is the New Black crew believes they are all prison reformers.

We watched Ghostbusters today & the answer is that Kilmer will ALWAYS hold up better. Doesn’t matter the opponent.

This is why posting must be done without limits. You post as your subconscious wills. If you're an idiot? It is the way of things. Edit buttons are anti-praxis.

The lost art of getting out of my own gd way

Any time someone even a little famous turns to their fans & says “I need your help” nothing good comes of it. I promise.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

I also believe that people can do incredible work even if their guiding principles are not the same as yours, or even if those guiding principles are questionable.

abolish fan overalls

You should also learn stuff just because learning is fun!! Like new synapses in my brain make me feel good!!

Naw man, you shouldn’t have to defend wanting to go to shows & see art because it’s part of a bigger political philosophy. You should involve yourself in music & art & dancing & stuff because it’s awesome & makes life worth living.

One thing I did learn in Philly this summer was that what eventually turned into Eastern State Penitentiary was related to the Quakers, and how instead of hanging people, they would essentially give them a long ass penance.

Erik Satie was the world’s first shitposter.

I’m all for art for art’s sake but more like the Dadaists, which was art for shitpost’s sake.

I don’t want to regress as a society. We’ve lived in the past. It was bad for children & women & Black people & immigrants & queer people & I don’t want to go back there.

This is so important to remember. So so so so important.

Hamster Vigil 2025 is off. Mr. Pancakes was scooting around today.

I am so excited for the women who are “first female head drum majors” of their collegiate marching bands but how on earth did it take until 2025???????

“There are many times where I’ve been treated like a burden, and to hear [Trump], someone who is supposed to protect the people of this nation, say these things makes me feel unsafe. We’re not a disease, we’re people. We don’t need to ‘cure’ autism. We need to expand access to services.”

One of the best pieces by Kaleb Horton ever is no longer easily available, because of course MTV wouldn't maintain actual good music writing done for its site once. Thankfully I found it again via some digging: his 2016 memorial to Merle Haggard on his passing. Link here, screencaps to follow.

Any advice for hamster death? My kid has not been older than two for the death of a pet, and she has loved her hamster a lot. Kid is sensitive & deeply anxious. Hamster has been alive 2.5 years (!!!) so he’s had a great run but has not moved from his spot in his cage.

Clothing complaint: even on like ThredUp, why can I not get a decent cardigan anywhere?

I want En Vogue to sing the Adam Schelsinger songbook. Would pay a lot of money to see that.

Well don't I feel stupid

Sitting in a Wayfair outlet while my kid & her best friend sit in every chair in the place. The in-store music is a full Ramones album??

If you want to directly help a classroom & one of the best teachers I’ve ever met, help my friend Ms. B here in Orlando: www.donorschoose.org/project/read...

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.