I don't like all the Sherlock Holmes stories where he intervenes to prevent the First World War

Try being a roofer as a redhead in Riyadh

Nobody actually believes in triadic inversion

Some dissonances for you

Getting fired from Texas A&M for teaching students that the concept of accidental dissonance comes from Italy

BlueSky is only good for seeing if one of exactly two people has said any stupid nonsense recently

They have to get the whole CHMTL project out of Indiana while there's still time

Nietzsche is perfectly lucid in the original. Which is proof that it's not my fault, all those German academics genuinely are atrocious writers.

As someone who was rejected from the top tier of US universities, I have to say that their slow implosion makes good schadenfreude

Hard to imagine anyone whose opinions on current events I want to hear less than David Mamet

Robert Bailey is a legendary figure in the world of music analysis. You still hear older faculty speaking his name in hushed tones.

How come LLMs haven't dramatically improved the quality of OCR?

They won 7-4

Gonna see the Goldeyes tonight, go Goldeyes

Learned some new LilyPond tricks

I am mildly disappointed not to be able to be at the very cool multilingual event on Salieri biography currently happening in Vienna, but my article on reputation, friendship, and betrayal in late 19th-century musical crime fiction just went live online at the Journal of Musicological Research!

We desperately need to do something about how hard it is to get around Canada

I started riding the bus in 2011, and I've passed through downtown at all hours ever since. There was a *marked* decline in conditions downtown after about 2015. It really didn't used to be like this.

The big takeaway from yesterday's election, for me, is the fact that the Marijuana Party somehow still exists

If anybody is interested, I am presenting a paper at the MusCan conference at the University of Waterloo in May

When I was a kid, teachers were all older than me. Now they're all younger than me. Wtf happened there?

I yearn for Winnipeg

On Soviet music and the concept of "Socialist Realism" (Pauline Fairclough)

Japanese poster for 'Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge' (1924)
dir: Fritz Lang 📽️