We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

Bus typo: Help us score the gift of life, DONATE BLOOB

BLOOB FOR THE BLOOB GOD!

Update: that was a delight, I love how thoughtful her approach is -- there are always things she emphasizes with all of the singers, but she also zeros in on specific things for each of them to work on, from French diction to the Dorabella-Fiordiligi sibling dynamic. And we get two more afternoons!

Program for Joyce DiDonato’s master classes at Carnegie Hall, April 19, 20, and 21, 2026.

Finally seeing Joyce DiDonato’s master classes in person!

It’s always “this meeting could’ve been an email” and never “this email could’ve been a fine cask of delectable amontillado wine”

I bookmarked this SO FAST.

because CD players, walkmans, and VCRs usually fucking worked and did precisely what was asked of them without relogging in and syncing and re-entering passwords and getting confirmation codes and doing 2FA with out TV and phone and clicking a fake "remember me" box that's fucking why

this is a great example of a business reacting to political/corporate shifts as though they are populist shifts. they did correctly read the signs of a nationwide rollback on LGBTQ rights! they just failed to account for how many people are FUCKING FURIOUS about that and will fight you over it

Oh, I bet you're right!

Are there any pieces that piano showrooms ban people from playing, the way guitar stores are said to ban Wonderwall or Stairway to Heaven? Inquiring minds want to know.

Piano update: I was talking with some family members about the impracticality of actually owning a real piano, and one of my uncles said "but the fun thing about piano showrooms is that you can just go there and play," and now I have another reason to overcome my performance nerves.

Temporarily distracting myself from The Horrors by working on a playlist I'm calling "Operatic Souvenirs," made up entirely of tracks meant to evoke specific opera performances I want to remember, going all the way back to college and grad school.

babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped

Any other Operasky people here tonight?

Inside the Metropolitan Opera house. Hand holding a program for Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence.

It’s approaching Kaija Saariaho opera o’clock:

Piano update: it just occurred to me, on my way home from tonight's lesson, that this is a very good week to be working on some Bartók.

Prudence Person's Scrapbook: View the Scrapbook from Beginning to End Prudence Person's scrapbook contains approximately 100 pages (50 leaves) filled, usually to the very edges of the paper, with newspaper and magazine clippings, postcards, and die-cut illustrations. Th...

And this scrapbook, which I think is also in HathiTrust: scalar.usc.edu/works/pruden...

Poetry and prose [manuscript] / selected by Mary Jane Wynkoop at Miss Gorham's School, Elizabeth Town, February 28th 1824. for project 6629 | Smithsonian Digital Volunteers

And this 1820s schoolgirl poetry anthology in the Smithsonian: transcription.si.edu/project/6629

People have already suggested some of the ones I thought of first (many at Harvard, the Cassey-Dickerson albums at Library Company of Philadelphia), but here are a few more:

This album from Villanova U.: digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl%3A... (I especially love the George Herbert extracts)

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.

“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.”

Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.

Artemis II's return has me thinking about this poem (again): "let's go by the speed of / queer zest & stay up / there..."

Forced Out: The Electrical Engineer Anti-Trans Laws in Florida Forced a Woman to Quit Her Dream Job with NASA

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www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...

Once again considering getting those lines from that Mary Oliver poem — “When it's over, I want to say: all my life / I was a bride married to amazement. / I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms” — tattooed somewhere.

why am I sobbing watching that little Nespresso pod zoot through the atmosphere with its huge ass parachutes

They made it, they made it, I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying.

OMG the parachutes!

“Like riding a fireball through the atmosphere”!