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𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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Choir conductor, utility soprano; Ph.D./MLIS Musicological wraith; Mets fan. Porch gardener. Birds. Old Hollywood. She/Her. IMPEACH/CONVICT/REMOVE

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𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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Happy Advent to those who celebrate, and those who choir.

5 baby birds on a branch with wide open beaks. They're probably screaming for food, but they do look like a little 5-part choir.

November 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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Look at this freaking gift to mankind. Better yet, listen.

A page from the first movement (Allegro non troppo) of the Brahms violin concerto. It shows the transition to and beginning of the second theme, fully introduced by the solo violin. It's gorgeous. 🥹😍

November 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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The Invention of Love, 1997 RIP Tom Stoppard

From Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, 1997: Richard Easton as Old A. E. Housman and Robert Sean Leonard as young Housman, seated together on an overturned, cracked Classical marble head.

November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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Fun fact: There is a traditional Italian Christmas cookie called "Brutti ma Buoni," which means "Ugly But Good." Because they are, in fact, ugly but good.

Brutti ma Buoni ("Ugly but good") cookies that look like dropped splats of paving material.

November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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HUGE reading recommendation. I guarantee you will learn things you never knew, and some that will make your hair stand up. You will never see the Mayflower story, the Separatists, the whole well-worn Thanksgiving scenario in the same way.

The cover of Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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Reminder: the boys who went wild on the island in "Lord of the Flies" were a choir.

Lord of the Flies, 1963: Shortly after landing, the choirboys try to assert dominance over all the boys.

Lord of the Flies, 1963, near the end of the film.

November 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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We stopped having turkey around here a few years ago. This year, it's ravioli. 😁

November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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A row of four cows look at the camera, wearing large, prominent bells. Caption says "GOING TO PLAY MAHLER 6 BRB"

November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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Happy Birthday, Roz Chast!

Roz Chast single panel New Yorker cartoon. A cityscape, with a large billboard with a picture of an angry-looking older woman, which reads: INJURED? I TOLD YOU SO BUT YOU DIDN'T LISTEN. CALL. 1-800-BOO-HOOO

November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM

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The Talk of the Town!
Priceless Jean Arthur line delivery: "They're both NUTS!" 😂

November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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"No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body." 😂

Gary Cooper, standing, seems to be examining the seated Barbara Stanwyck's foot, which he is holding in his hand. Stanwyck's famously nicely-shaped leg is extented up toward Cooper, and fully visible by virtue of a truly spectacular Edith Head costume which seems to be constructed of glittery strips.

November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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It's still almost a month until winter actually gets started, and I'm already tired of it. 🤦🤦🤦 I'm good and sick of standard time already. 🤦🫩

Spring Training Countdown: 75 Days 15 Hours 25 Minutes

November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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"Schloop" is worthy of Don Martin

November 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM

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These matching family Christmas cards are getting ridiculous.

Family portrait of the Utelli-Maselli family, c. 1605.. Mother is surrounded by six children and a lap dog. All have auburn hair, and are dressed richly in brocades with lace wheel collars.

November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM

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November 25: Feast of St Catherine of Alexandria.

Caravaggio's St Catherine of Alexandria.

November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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A film that takes place where you're from.

A still from Sophie's Choice. Kevin Kline is seated on a curb, in front of the "Pink Palace," on Rugby Road, in Prospect Park South, Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY

November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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I guess I should’ve known by the way you parked your car sideways
That it wouldn’t last
See, you’re the kinda person that believes in makin’ out once
Love ’em and leave ’em fast
I guess I must be dumb ’cause you had a pocket full of horses,
Trojan and some of them used...

Pope seeming to sing soulfully into a microphone.

November 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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Star Wars!
Give me those Star Wars!
Nothing but Star Wars -
Don't let them end.
Ah, Star Wars!
If they should bar wars,
Please let these Star Wars stay!
How about that nutty Star Wars bar?
Can you believe all the creatures in there?

November 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑

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You don't own me, I'm not just one of your many toys
You don't own me, don't say I can't go with other boys

And don't tell me what to do
And don't tell me what to say
And please, when I go out with you
Don't put me on display, 'cause

You don't own me...