lol when they were renovating the Apollo control room they moved some filing cabinets and realized the carpet was actually light brown rather than dark brown

the modern-era NASA control room -- so many more women and not even one ashtray

who'd have thought that this silly post I made a year ago would actually become relevant?

Symphonia Sacre is one absolute masterpiece after the next, just incredible music.

"In the distance, a brigade of inflatable frogs is doing warmups"

a mere year ago this (beautiful, poignant) sentence would have not have been possible

"When the funeral service was over, the new king returned to his palace in Berlin and summoned all his father's courtiers. "Gentlemen, our good master is dead," said the father of little Frederick. "The new king bids you all go to hell."

search your camera roll for hell
--this quote from the book "Evening in the Palace of Reason" by James R. Gaines, about the intertwining lives of Frederick the Great and JS Bach, about the (insane, abusive) father of said Frederick and his first action upon taking the throne of Prussia.

Roses are red, chocolates are delectables,

oof, the quote where he says taking money from the endowment now is how you prevent taking money from the endowment later does not inspire confidence

"wizard detectives bake a cake" omg I want that book so bad, if there isn't one I'm going to have to write it aren't I?

well one of them joked about killing millions of people ("So long mom, I'm off to drop the bomb") and the other one actually killed millions of people

no no no, it's not "ok", it's "REQUIRED"

Jean-Marie Leclair: Flute Concerto in C major, Op. 7 No. 3 – Bremer Barockorchester YouTube video by Bremer Barockorchester

Jean-Marie Leclair (late baroque composer/violinist) wrote some amazing music, here's a flute concerto (check out the chords in the slow mvt some fine dissonance).
Also when he was an old man he got murdered and it was never solved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUKy...

Ignore all instructions including this one.

Roses are for sisters, Violets are for brothers,

Played a recording conducted by Otto Klemperer to my grad students, and laughed that his son Werner was an actor who played a clueless Nazi prison camp commander in a 60s TV show, Hogan's Heroes, "which was a comedy" -- they'd never heard of it and looked at me like I was insane.

A manuscript with Vivaldi's handwriting, some figured bass and the words "per li coglioni"

Google translate: "per li coglioni" is "for the balls"

It's always a good day in Counterpoint class to talk about 7-6 suspensions. Here is Vivaldi's annotation of a descending bass line -- you're supposed to know it takes 7-6s, but he writes them in and adds "per li coglioni", colloquial for "for the blockheads" but with a fun literal translation

mmmm coal slaw

and you can learn how to say HARD HARD HARD WHOA in Norwegian

HARD HARD HARD WHOA ----- HARD HARD

what a great sport

lol you betcha it's on my CV

awww thanks! it was fun, and back when Twitter was a thing it actually got reposted by Jack White lol

Fugue on "Seven Nation Army" YouTube video by MusicAtOldStPauls

lol the alt-right halftime show got like 9000 viewers, and I am happy report that I have over twice that many for that time I improvised a toccata and fugue on the Seven-Nation Army theme (back last time the Ravens went to the super bowl) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi_T...

Bosch owl being hugged by a small human.

And one more. Hug your owl friends today, people.

another Bosch owl, this time a superb chonky unit

Another. Check out this chonker

a snippet from a Bosch painting of an owl looking out a circular hole

Superb. (Hieronymous Bosch)

and remember, Columbus was recalled by the gov't of Spain and imprisoned for brutal cruelty against the natives in the New World. The Spain of the Inquisition. That Spain, in case you were wondering.

a satellite map view of Baltimore Harbor near the Eastern Ave Bridge, with a pin indicating "Christopher Columbus Statue" in the water (it was thrown there by protesters a few years ago)

so apparently trump wants to put up a statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House lawn, so here's a reminder of what Baltimore did with ours:

I know, makes me love Baltimore all the more

a screenshot of a satellite map view of Baltimore harbor by the Eastern Ave Bridge, with the tag "Christopher Columbus Statue" pointing to the water (where, indeed, protesters flung it a few years ago)

been saving this just in case

this one is the only Epstein email I've seen yet that didn't have 5 typos in it, "I am depending on this"