Be the bulge you want to see in the world.

Verdi is very good at aurally evoking witchy, which is great in Macbeth and a little weird in his Requiem.

Headline: Upstate NY man ends legal battle with the state for his 'emotional support' pet alligator Published: Apr. 09, 2026, 4:40 p.m.

Upstate NY Man giving Florida Man a run for his money.

Mortuaries should be called moratoriums. I am not a crackpot.

But children do not.

Bread pudding is a dessert casserole.

I’ve listened twice, journaled, and am using this to plan how to move forward from a recent rupture in my own life. It was validating of some of my approach and is also helping me have empathy toward the person who harmed me. Thank you both from the bottom of my still bruised but healing heart.

Hey, mammogram twin! This was my second and both were briefly and mildly uncomfortable at worst.

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Oh boy do I ever need this today.

I know I’m far from the first person to make this observation, but I was recently reminded of it.

Is there any more accurate and damning description of higher ed than MLK’s “white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice?”

“The hero is not the one who wins the war, the hero is the one who stops it.“ Mama Bear Louise Wakerakats:se Herne, (Kanien’keha:ka)

Fraternities have entered into a sound system battle of Pumped Up Kicks vs. Uptown Girl. Must be over 60 degrees outside!

Payola is not just a city in Kansas.

The internet has informed me that Sir Roger Norrington referred to this contrabassoon part in Beethoven’s 9th as the “fart in the finale,” which would have been an amazing episode of Bones. @kvanaren.bsky.social @andrewwrites.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/9kDjo...

Whoever coined the phrase “dirt cheap” has never filled a raised bed.

If you assume everyone is having soup and half a sandwich, it works out to $12 each for 6 people. Not a bargain, but not outrageous either.

Dispatches from Friday night rehearsal: there is no instrument fartier than a contrabassoon.

@tlknoell.bsky.social This books seems extremely up your alley! www2.archivists.org/news/2026/sa...

Jovial Bob, even!

There are still individual undergraduate majors in art and music histories that require similar large-scale projects. One could, presumably, choose to make one of those programs interdisciplinary if they liked.

I’m not here to defend university administrations, but it’s important to clarify that they are not shutting down fine arts broadly, just a specific undergraduate degree program called fine arts that’s a combination of art and music: www.syracuse.edu/academics/pr...

Looks slightly underplied, but I haven’t washed it yet, so I’m hoping it’ll bloom. It’s merino, so it should.

Skein of plied handspun yarn in shades of purple, blue, pink, and turquoise

Not too bad if I do say so myself. #spinsky

[1939?] We are witnessing in America today a growing antagonism toward the alien and the foreign-born. This antagonism always appears in times of industrial crises, [when competition for jobs is keen and the labor market is ?]. With conditions continuing as they are, the alien is likely to become our national scapegoat. This antagonism, fortunately, is not shared by the majority of the people of this country; certainly not by those who realize that immigrants are human beings like the rest of us, no better, no worse. After all, the whole history of America is that the immigrant of today is the American of tomorrow. That history began with the first immigrants who landed in America and it is continuing today with the immigrants who…

Notes from a c. 1939 speech given by Edward Corsi, an Italian immigrant who held a variety of US government posts related to immigration and labor. The extent to which we are currently repeating the 1930s is an abject failure of our ability to learn from history.

Wives and sisters and daughters, too.

They shouldn’t have an audience, either.

Blue and purple singles on a spinning wheel bobbin

It’s amazing how quickly I can get through a spinning project if I actually work on it and spin something thicker than frog hair.

I wasn’t born yet, but my mother made me watch Poseidon Adventure as a child in the 90s and it and Twister hooked me on the disaster genre. Towering Inferno is one of my all time favorites.