Congrats!!

Nana and Rene?

We still tap MAC and go to concerts at Spaghetti Warehouse. Philly doesn’t accept new names. Our defiance builds community. Don’t like it? Go pound sand up Delaware Avenue.

As a Philadelphian, I agree wholeheartedly with every word of this article (gift link). share.inquirer.com/sYJXm1

Now we just need @farfarraway.bsky.social to do an article on our tendency to give directions based on where things USED to be. "Take a left at the old Girard Bank...."

Think Aboutcha YouTube video by Fruit Bats - Topic

New Fruit Bats song! I gave myself a 9 AM deadline for finishing an index draft (for a 400-page book) so I could listen a weird number of times before moving on with my morning, and it worked.

I'm always up for believing in Fake Melania

It switched pretty much everything on mine to "members only" (so, not *public* public, at least, but non-members can't even view profiles right now, so lol), including things that were public before, like my subject areas and which style guides I use. 🤦‍♀️

Please don't - thanks for asking! After checking the Discord, I did finally find the privacy settings (under "My Account"), and it is possible to make those things private again, but how many people aren't even going to realize their EFA profile is outing them? 😩

THEY DISCLOSED PEOPLE'S DISABILITY STATUS TOO

I'M YELLING, THIS IS SO BAD 💀💀💀

a musicology association I'm in once redid their directory and it made everyone's membership type public, which meant my profile said "Erin K. Maher: Low Income" until I complained and got it fixed; this is maybe worse, lmao

Screenshot of the EFA member directory search page where it allows you to filter by "LGBT+ member" (no/yes) and "Race and/or Ethnicity."

Carolina, I'm screaming 💀

I SWEAR when I filled out the demographic questions in a previous version of my profile, it was private information, but now you can search for LGBT+ members and find me and 513 other people who probably also don't realize it's part of their profile

lol, lmao 😩

Opera is food for the soul. At its best, opera can hold up a mirror to society. Opera invites us to approach rational thinking from a different perspective. It puts the notions of body, mind and soul in a totally different, more organic and humanist constellation. Patrick Pype's conviction in relation to this potential has offered him decisive insights into how to act in business. For him, the protagonists in the operas of Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Janacek = are inspiring models of leadership. Their behaviour helps him to empower us to become more empathic, lucid, fair and inspirational leaders.

An MBA has written a business nonsense book about leadership lessons from opera.

Here’s the blurb:

10 Down: Dr Jekyll (respected, credentialled) a.k.a. ___ Hyde (despised, no known academic degrees).

This @puzzmo.com mini crossword clue reminded me that I saw the license plate "H JEKYLL" last week and now live in fear of encountering the same car with "E HYDE."

I had a dream that I fell for a phishing attempt and I was *mortified*

Here in PA, where I'm used to a *relatively* linear progression of seasons, it was in the 80s for a few days last week (high 89 on the day I had to be outside the most 🫠), and it's currently 45 and rainy. I've been calling it Random Number Generator Weather.

I would buy the book-length version of this thread on the brilliance of the English ""translation"" of the Les Miz lyrics

(I refuse to engage in freelance work hours discourse. If you think that's not enough work, shut up, I'm getting ready to move and I have so much stuff; if you think it's too much, shut up, I've got deadlines.)

Time-tracking report showing that I spent 85.20% of my time on indexing, 14.43% on admin, and 0.36% on editing.

Me when people ask me what I do: "I'm a copyeditor, and sometimes I index books."

This week:

11/4/26 Hiss Golden Messenger, 200 days 11/5/26 Fruit Bats, 201 days 11/6/26 Basia Bulat, 202 days

I have a spreadsheet that counts down the days until each concert I have a ticket for, and I have rows for each day of the year so I can see when they're close together, like, uhhh, the first week of November. 😬 I've done two days in a row before, but I don't think I've done three...

Before: New York’s Anti-Rich Current Reaches Crescendo With Second-Home Tax Plan After: New York’s Anti-Rich Current Reaches Apex With Second-Home Tax Plan

Change in Headline

Somebody is going to be standing at a podium tomorrow at the Museum of the Bible, reading Numbers 1 out loud. This will be streaming live on Pure Flix.

"from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni; from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; from Asher, Pagiel son of Okran; from Gad, Eliasaph son of ..."

gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/track/valise...

I would obviously prefer it if people who've heard me say my name would remember how it goes, but if I'm too timid to correct them, that's on me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

receptionist or similar: good guess, I'll take it
person who knows me casually: uh-oh, did I forget to tell them? awkward!
person who's known me for many years: man, I guess it's just impossible to remember, oh well

(it sounds like "mar," like that guy on TV who sucks, *no relation*)

either that number is way off or I've been down on myself my whole life for being bad at faces when I'm actually *great* at faces

Susie Wiles reading Proverbs 31 😐

A regular feature of Girlyman concerts is that they would improvise goofy songs whenever one of them needed to tune, and they released a tuning songs CD in 2011 that I just found in a box in my closet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In the Middle Ages there was a pope, and there was a Holy Roman Empire Sometimes the emperor didn't like the pope, so he said, "I'll make my own one" An antipope, an antipope, opposite of all the pope's qualities He was a woman and a horse and many other opposite things, of course Unless he was an aunt of the pope, the pope's auntie Oh, I just misread the history books, oh, it's so sweet they had a whole family It's a family of popes, a family of popes And everyone gets along so well, especially Easter It's a family of popes, it's a family of popes Amen

the antipope tuning song was from a concert I went to in 2010 while taking a grad seminar on 14th-century Italy and a *little* too pretentious to accept the bit

Girlyman - The Tuning Songs Collection, Vol. 1.

on a totally different note, I FOUND IT, the Girlyman tuning songs CD with the antipope song that has been popping into my head a lot lately even though Nate didn't really understand the concept!

An open cardboard box with Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse in it.

Today in going through all my stuff: a box of flute music I'll never be good enough to play again. 😢 (TBH, I was never quite good enough for this one!)