the yoga instructor tells me to engage my core. i toggle the swtich and feel my power levels rising. core engaged. plasma vents at 34%. within minutes my shoulder mounted turbo canons will be armed. namaste.
imho one of the most useful types of modern wisdom is learning to identify when someone’s distasteful beliefs stem from a lack of correct information and when they come from an unaddressed or unregulated emotional need
Best part of Russian novels is that you’re never quite sure if a new name is a new character vs a character you already know being addressed by their barber instead of their mom
going to start a concert series called Holy Shit This Desk Is Huge where acoustic singer-songwriters have to put on a stadium show with pyrotechnics and such
The rhetorical trick they rely on is that you can’t have a meaningful discussion about subjective things with people who have no empathy, and you can’t have a discussion about art with people who have no curiosity
Truly remarkable lack of self-awareness among the genAI crowd - they'll tell you that you aren't qualified to speak on the topic unless you can match their years of claimed subject matter expertise. But they don't seem to have any recognition for expertise in actual creation, i.e. writing
beyond the question of how much difference the cuts would make in the budget, which I can’t really speak to—Chorus members, and I would even say especially unpaid ones, are often some of the biggest supporters and boosters an org can have.
let’s all remember who the truest enemy is: the passage of time.
it used to be 1996. even 1998! but nooooooooo we just decided to the let the ball keep rolling and now it’s 2024 and no one is happy at all.
time: not even once.
it's Mavis Staples' birthday! I have to tell my favorite story about her that i never wanted to tell on Twitter because for some reason I was one of like 200 accounts her account followed lol
I just read a disclaimer at the beginning of a book that says “the author’s opinions may not universally apply to all people in all circumstances” and I kinda want to make that my Bluesky bio lol
My cat hates the sound of the piano but can tell it’s very important to me so if I start practicing when she’s near she’ll pause and then trot urgently but politely out of the room like she just remembered that she has an appointment and is running late
When I think of Oberlin, I think of a guy I know who went there. He was a Bulgarian percussionist at my arts high school who went around campus making all kinds of Ben Burtt-esque sound effects with his mouth when he was happy. Which he usually was.
Anyway, he’s a world-renowned conductor now
There's a bakery up the street from me where they saw my email on an order and started drawing tubas on the bags. So I saved em for a year and made a collage for them. Which they then hung up and curated like a museum piece. I love em there and they're always happy to see me ❤️
lmao I called my local coffeeshop to see if they were open today--my fave barista happened to pick up & she was like yep we're here and also we have almond lemon loaves left [one of my go-to pastries]
truly if you want the benefits of being loved you must submit to the embarrassment of being known
sorry I forgot to text you back for two weeks, I thought about how soap making might be a neat hobby and ended up down a rabbit hole learning about different types of surfactants
