This is my favorite part of making a new arrangement:

Adding unnecessary notes for the musicians.

I cannot bring myself to sell it, but if some kid needs a big viola to play on for a bit, she'll be ready to play soon. :)

Back during the holidays, I packed my old viola up from middle/high school to send to myself and it's finally time to clean her up and get her playable again. She's a nicer factory fiddle (that my parents definitely still owe some shop for) but it feels like helping out an old friend.

Minute Cryptic Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Minute Cryptic - 4 March, 2026
"Otto (your second cousin twice removed) crushed audition" (6)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par
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This game is so annoying (/pos), because guessing an answer is equally as unsatisfying as not getting it at all.

One day, I will put my tux on before a gig without looking up a bow tie tutorial on Youtube. Today is not that day.

Have I ever storytold VTM before? No. Will I attempt to run this next month for the anniversary of Sinners? Probably.

A certain line of dialogue from Preacher Boy would go Crazy™ in this context.

Hear me out, TTRPG people (specifically the Black ones):

-Play a game of Vampire: The Masquerade
-Set it in the early 1900's
-The coterie lives in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

I immediately got this one, just got there the wrong way lol

Minute Cryptic - 6 February, 2026
"Pit players or co-captain against six highest-rated centres?" (9)
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🏆 2 hints – 1 under the community par (30,383 solvers so far).
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Just minding my business watching the CR stream, and someone driving by is blasting what is unmistakably an EDM/Techno version of the Handel Halvorsen Passacaglia.

Well let's be real, my sleep habits were already abysmal. This just also happens to be a part of that now.

I've started staying up past midnight just to do these.

Minute Cryptic - 5 February, 2026
"Car somersaults during distance event, defying belief" (7)
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🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (34,520 solvers so far).
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Every time I think I'm finally getting the hang of Minute Cryptic, they give me a clue to absolutely humble me.

Minute Cryptic - 30 January, 2026
"Fig 'n' ram!" (5,7)
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🏋 10 hints – 4 over the community par (86,245 solvers so far).
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If anyone has any resources/tips on teaching violin in Spanish, they'd be greatly appreciated 🙏🏾

She called jazz Popeyes music, never linked again after that

vigilantsycamore Dec 25, 2020 Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!

still my favorite christmas post

I should try and find some Mal*rt down here and make my family take shots.

So we all grew up knowing the mall Santas were fake, but only because the real Santa was black, right?

Because why on God’s green earth would we allow a random white man in our homes every year while not a creature is stirring?

Got genuinely jumpscared at the gig on Sunday because I forgot how that one Norman Hutchins song starts. And then the chorus came.

It sure did feel like Hartsfield Jackson has a “one luggage carousel at a time” policy

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Performance anxiety really is something. I’ll be on the gig thinking I should’ve changed careers a decade ago, then get hit with back to back compliments from audience members and my fellow musicians, and then book another gig within a couple hours.

It’s a Gigsmas Miracle. 🎄

Gigsmas Time is here 🎄

Is it cheating? Maybe. But one of my favorite things to do while arranging in Musescore is to hit the “retrograde” button and just see what happens.

Working on some holiday arrangements and I’m never not fascinated by this phenomenon:

The song // Whitney Houston’s version

Putting the finishing touches on a broken ass D&D character that is essentially Knight Rider (1982).

This campaign is gonna be fun.

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Been making some shavings 🎻

I don’t mind the extra darkness, in fact I welcome it.

It’s the shift from basically late summer weather one week to walking up to snow on the ground the next that get me.

I’m an autumn baby. Where’s my season??

I am at a festival for a music scene that currently only has one bassist. The festival is in a hilly forest venue and he runs the trails between stages to get to every set, carrying his stand-up bass. People give him beers and snacks as he passes.

Anyway, I have an idea for a new Olympic sport.

Adding a bit to my violin’s page on my website: 🎻