FHDC and LiveJournal. Miss them so.

Carey (a white woman with red hair and glasses) stands in a backyard in front of a wooden fence and a flamingo sculpture, while wearing a ridiculous amount of fluorescent rainbow makeup.

Hi, Bluesky! I just spent a week in Austin for the HONK!TX festival, and being in pretty spring scenery, playing with cute animal friends, and making noise and getting into shenanigans with my brass band family was AMAZING.

Seriously, what is the point of taking the train if you can't overhear other people's conversation?

Meme I dreamed last night:

"This is who you expect to deliver your pizza": pic of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, riding a motorcycle

"This is who ACTUALLY delivers your pizza": pic of Hagar the Horrible, riding a tiny bicycle

No idea what it means, but my brain woke me up MULTIPLE TIMES with it.

I was at some of these shows, and I performed in at least one that I've found so far!

Old Town School | Lilith Fair Sing-Along Lilith Fair Sing-Along |

Hey, Chicago friends of A Certain Age, I'm leading a Lilith Fair sing-along at the @oldtownschool.bsky.social on Saturday, March 21. Let's have some musical catharsis together!

www.oldtownschool.org/classes/deta...

One other person in the theater laughed with me, and I almost wish I'd found them afterwards.

Knew pretty much nothing going into Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie , but it was a fun, silly, and sweet ride with some excellent needle drops and one very specific visual gag that made me cackle at top volume.

Riker came up in the conversation! He definitely has the appropriate jazz trombone energy, which is slightly different from classical or marching band trombone energy.

Yesterday, I described someone as having "the most trombone player energy I've ever seen in someone who doesn't play trombone," and then I thought about it and realized that I myself may have the least trombone player energy I've ever seen in anyone who DOES play trombone.

I read this one last month and loved it!

I've been intrigued by this one...now I know I have to watch it!

You know, the book I was reading was going along just fine...and then a character referred to R.E.M.'s Out of Time tour.

Excellent, I'll email you!

idk i think in a time when it feels like nothing matters & all is futile it might actually be time to double down and write your stories & make your paintings & sing your songs & do your art. create the things that make us human and share them.

I lead a brass band for people of marginalized genders, I'm learning how to be a songleader for the singing resistance, I'm a steward for my union, and I teach the joy of making music to learners of all ages. Writing it out helps--it's easy to feel like I'm doing nothing.

Definitely want to help with whistle packing parties!

I was at a workshop on Mr. Rogers yesterday (I'm a preschool teacher) and it ended with a singalong of this song. Everyone in the room left smiling and wiping away happy tears.

I can absolutely help pack!

the blah is coming from inside the house

I would so be there.

This is who runs this account.

Catherine O'Hara & Eugene Levy performing "A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow" from A MIGHTY WIND at the 2004 Oscars🌈💔

Robbie Williams and Mark Owen performing "Back for Good" at Knebworth, as seen on my laptop screen. The caption reads, "Mark Owen, ladies and gentlemen!"

MY. BOYS. (Episode 1 of the Take That Netflix documentary was entirely too focused on Gary for my taste, but episode 2 brought the feels.

(Tell me you went to a Catholic liberal arts college without telling me you went to a Catholic liberal arts college.)

Never mind the jobs you had; tell me five classes you took in college.

American Women Writers
Philosophy Through Literature
Instrumental Techniques and Orchestration
Sociology of Gender
Religious Studies

We rewatched it a few years ago, and 99% of it holds up! Heads up that the reveal about a certain character at the end, while treated gently for 2003, is still very much of its time.

Came here to say this. I have so many good memories from the Fruhead days--hell, my husband and I met on Fruhead Dot Com and saw the lads on our first date. The Jian revelations hurt A LOT.

Right there with you about Whedon and Rowling.

Right there with you about Whedon and Rowling.