Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii-mannuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable… 🎶

I nearly burst into Monty Python’s drunk philosophers song (aka “Bruce’s Song”) in a department chairs’ meeting today. I will not be taking questions at this time. 

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

The idiom “reaches crescendo“ is exactly why we need more music education. Like, congrats, you just got to the beginning of things starting to get loud? 🤷‍♂️

Shit You Can’t Make Up Dept.

One day you’re young and wild, the next you’ve stayed up until 1:30 trying to take back a rebellious city during a dark age only to find out the the goddamn Celts have gunpowder while you’ve barely cranked out a swordsman and you just end up feeling dumb on a lot of different levels.

I love the term “reaches crescendo.” Like, congrats, you’ve made it to the beginning of things starting to get louder?

Coconut milk, vanilla, cinnamon, pinch of salt, berries

Chia seed parfait: layers of berries and coconut milk-Chia seed mixture covered in crushed nuts and lemon zest

A few months ago, we went keto. When I tell people this, the number one reaction is “oh, I’m sorry! Why’d you do that?”

Well, I’ve lost 20lbs and I just made this for dessert over the next couple of days… 🤷‍♂️

I humbly suggest that they use the stuff that $&@#ing irrevocably bonds those $&@#ing broccoli bits to your the sides of your pot to assemble the components of the next Artemis mission.

I aggressively select all democratic forms of government as self-care

With the whole household sick and me being the first to have gone down, I am now in charge of dinner 🍽️

Poster for Grey’s Anatomy, featuring the cast in the same garb as Trump’s Jesus/Doctor image

Possibly my favorite one so far

Same

Handwritten score showing a fugue exposition in Messiaen’s second mode of limited transposition.

And we’re off! Concerto for Trumpet and Strings, Movement IV Allegro Marcato for @aztrumpet.bsky.social has begun. Here’s the opening:

Only one new bird for me on my morning walk, but a pretty one! Look at this little banana looking Palm Warbler :)

Should be part of his next test.

Cat Contrafacta (a continuing series):

We can meow if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't meow and if they don't meow
Well, they're no friends of mine

He appears to be healing John Stewart…

For how to use words in my own music, I didn’t get much form at all. Lots of prosody, but not form.

I took two undergrad seminars that covered text and form pretty closely: one was a seminar on Brahms and musical meaning, the other was Lori Burns’s seminar called “Music and Text” which is actually where I first analyzed pop music. Both were great!

When Gubaidulina breaks out the theme from Bach’s “Musical Offering” after 27 minutes of hardcore atonality in “Offertorium”

Buttering a Bundt cake is NOT an innocent ask. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Lemon-blueberry Bundt caked with lemon frosting

I can bake a (keto) cake

Pile ‘o cat

😂

a man is holding a light saber in his hand with a red light coming out of it ALT: a man is holding a light saber in his hand with a red light coming out of it

Except this picture strongly intimates that you’re holding the blade with your hand!

It’s such a good feeling. We did this before moving last summer. Therapeutic.

Sitting on the cargo area of a landed navy helicopter, Artemis II American crewmember, Reid Wiseman, leans forward and points at the camera while Canadian crewmember, Jeremy Hansen, leans back with his hand in his lap like a choirboy.

No picture in the history of the world has more directly illustrated the difference in culture between the United States and Canada.