Kelly Sedinger ksedinger - Bluesky Statics

Something for Thursday I've been featuring Donna Summer the last few weeks, and then the other day The Wife and I were driving around doing errands and we were listening to 70s On 7 on SiriusXM, where a string of selections made me decide to expand the Donna Summer focus (and I'll be back to Donna Summer!) to Black Singers of the 1970s. Why? Because a whole damn lot of really good music falls under that description. We'll start with a one-hit wonder that's so infectiously good, and sung so well, that every time I hear it, I wonder why this guy--a singer from Jamaica--only had the one big hit.

New on my site: Something for Thursday! A one-hit disco wonder from the 1970s.

06.03.2026 02:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I use onion powder in some recipes that call for it (garlic powder, too), but nine times out of ten, if not more, I'm using real onion and real garlic.

04.03.2026 17:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

La femme élégante en salopette

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY

Taken on Miranda (Lumix FZ1000ii). 44.4mm, f/3.9, 1/100sec, ISO4000

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04.03.2026 14:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

People Looking At Flowers, the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY

Taken on Miranda (Lumix FZ1000ii). 9.1mm, f/3.5, 1/60sec, ISO200
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03.03.2026 23:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Tuesday Tones (extending Black History Month, just because) I couldn't decide which of three pieces to feature today, so I said to myself, "Why limit myself to one?" That's right, you get all three. Composer and flautist Valerie Coleman has had a deeply impressive career already. A native of Louisville, KY, Coleman was steeped in music from an early age, and her trajectory seems to have mainly pointed in one direction her entire life, as far as I can tell: up. She has been an accomplished performing flautist as well as a highly-regarded composer; her work Umoja--which began as a work for woodwind quintet but then was re-arranged by the composer for many varying ensembles--eventually became the first work performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra by a living Black woman composer.

Tuesday Tones (extending Black History Month, just because)

I couldn't decide which of three pieces to feature today, so I said to myself, "Why limit myself to one?" That's right, you get all three. Composer and flautist Valerie Coleman has had a deeply impressive career already. A native of…

03.03.2026 23:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fun to think about, but the logistics of completing enough transactions to get this done are...dubious. Do I assume that the money is given in the form of, say, a single cash card loaded with that amount? Does the full transaction have to be completed, or are just signed agreements enough?

03.03.2026 17:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Adding Up What Urban Highways Really Cost A new report maps the economic toll that downtown freeways exact on 142 US cities — and tallies up what that land could be worth if it was developed for other uses.

A new report by @thedotcity.bsky.social quantifies the economic toll of downtown freeways, and the economic potential of tearing them down.

The 66K acres that downtown freeways occupy could yield more than half a trillion dollars of development and over $5b annually in property taxes.

03.03.2026 17:28 — 👍 24 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 2

Karla who? (Genuinely not remembering, though I continue to be annoyed that Barbara Miller-Williams is still around)

03.03.2026 17:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At the Burchfield Penney Your Humble Narrator, in front of wallpaper designed by Charles Burchfield, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center We were at the Burchfield Penney Art Center yesterday. This lovely museum, smaller than the AKG and dedicated to Western New York artists, is always a delight to visit. Art museums have become my favorite places to visit. What an interesting development...I always had a hard time with the visual arts until recently. I have some thoughts on this, but they are forthcoming....

At the Burchfield Penney

Your Humble Narrator, in front of wallpaper designed by Charles Burchfield, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center We were at the Burchfield Penney Art Center yesterday. This lovely museum, smaller than the AKG and dedicated to Western New York artists, is always a delight to…

03.03.2026 01:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's why I only drink Coke Zero now. I ain't got time for all of that.

02.03.2026 20:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dennis Franz. (And he's a great actor!)

02.03.2026 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tuesdays are bullshit. Easily the dregs of the week.

02.03.2026 19:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pious lectures about "media literacy" from people who think criticism of the NYT is limited to their op-ed pages and not to serious issues with their reporting in general are always entertaining. Do go on.

02.03.2026 13:23 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The overalls-washing struggle is real (this is why I try to line-dry only)

01.03.2026 17:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Random Questions from Sunday Stealing Most times these quizzes are themed in some way. Not this week! These questions are random as shit! Here we go! 1. Did you/will you have coffee or some other form of caffeine today? I literally just downed the last sip of Coffee Number One. Shortly I will get up to brew Coffee Number Two. And later on, when we have Sunday Popcorn, I will wash it down with a lovely Coke Zero. (Sundays tend to be a lazy day for us, when we do household stuff like laundry and a bit of cleaning and maybe some food prep and stuff...in the afternoon if we're home we stop for popcorn and a bit of relaxation.)

Random Questions from Sunday Stealing

Most times these quizzes are themed in some way. Not this week! These questions are random as shit! Here we go! 1. Did you/will you have coffee or some other form of caffeine today? I literally just downed the last sip of Coffee Number One. Shortly I will get…

01.03.2026 14:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Economic policies that favor the rich, CHECK
Bigoted policies that make hate-filled evangelicals happy, CHECK
Undermining democracy, CHECK

Looks like we've reached "War in the Middle East" in the Republican President Playbook. Great job, America! Electing this guy was a terrific idea!

28.02.2026 13:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Dan Simmons has died. I bounced off HYPERION several times, but maybe I'll give it another go someday. I did think THE TERROR was absolutely amazing, and I read it well before the teevee show, so there's that.

28.02.2026 00:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A gull flying, wings outstretched, above the blue-green water of Lake Erie.

Above the water

Buffalo Outer Harbor, August 2025. Taken on Miranda (Lumix FZ1000ii), 126.4mm, f/11.0, 1/2000sec, ISO1250
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27.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whenever I see posts about Bluesky being irrelevant or whatever but it's just tech bros who are pissed they can just be blocked en masse and can't get a foothold in a place they can't pay to be shown in everyone's feed

23.02.2026 14:32 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Something for Thursday It's late in the day and it was a long and busy one today and my brain's mush, so I'm sticking with Donna Summer. Here's "Hot Stuff"! A bonus: Summer's song was perfectly used in The Full Monty:

Something for Thursday

It's late in the day and it was a long and busy one today and my brain's mush, so I'm sticking with Donna Summer. Here's "Hot Stuff"! A bonus: Summer's song was perfectly used in The Full Monty:

27.02.2026 01:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wut?

Sterling Renaissance Festival, July 2024. Taken on Miranda (Lumix FZ1000ii), 54.2mm, f/3.9, 1/125sec, ISO125.

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25.02.2026 23:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy Birthday, My Love Today is The Wife's birthday! As is my usual tradition, below is the post that I reuse every year and keep adding to in really ungainly fashion. This post actually first lived on the old BlogSpot incarnation of this site and now it's over here on WordPress...and I'm not using the old-school WordPress interface anymore, I use the one with "blocks", and this post, as Dr. Cox might say, ruh-heellly does not work well in blocks, so if the formatting here is a bit "janky", as the kids say, that's why.

Happy Birthday, My Love

Today is The Wife's birthday! As is my usual tradition, below is the post that I reuse every year and keep adding to in really ungainly fashion. This post actually first lived on the old BlogSpot incarnation of this site and now it's over here on WordPress...and I'm not…

25.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tuesday Tones (Black History Month) Oh, is THIS piece a "banger", as the kids say! (A really good song is a banger now. Up 'til now, if you said "banger" to me, I'd have assumed you were talking about a British breakfast sausage.) Composer Kevin Day's Concerto for Wind Ensemble is a thrilling virtuoso showpiece that puts every section of the wind ensemble on full display. It is energetic and jazzy and rhythmic and lyrical, and it's one of the most purely enjoyable pieces I've listened to as a new (to me) work in a

Tuesday Tones (Black History Month)

Oh, is THIS piece a "banger", as the kids say! (A really good song is a banger now. Up 'til now, if you said "banger" to me, I'd have assumed you were talking about a British breakfast sausage.) Composer Kevin Day's Concerto for Wind Ensemble is a thrilling…

25.02.2026 00:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, i'm just wrapping up a go-round with one of those "Minor cold, eh? HEY BRAIN! WE'RE DROWNING THAT SHIT IN MUCUS FOR DAYYYYYYS!" episodes, so, yay

24.02.2026 03:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe they can get Adam Schlesinger to write the songs! Oh wait....

(Jesus, these fucking assholes)

24.02.2026 03:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love quoting a cookbook called MAKE THE BREAD, BUY THE BUTTER: "Never once have I been eating a soup or stew and thought, Wow, this could really use more bay leaf."

24.02.2026 03:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

On the Wing

Buffalo Outer Harbor, 9-24. Taken on Miranda (Lumix FZ1000ii). f/5.6, 1/4000sec, ISO3200
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24.02.2026 00:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Closer…closer…. And now, a Sequence. Increasing detail from Fjall, by Anna Boberg (1864-1935). This painting was recently on display at the Buffalo AKG. I found its depiction fascinating by the way more detail is revealed with each step you take toward it.

Closer…closer….

And now, a Sequence. Increasing detail from Fjall, by Anna Boberg (1864-1935). This painting was recently on display at the Buffalo AKG. I found its depiction fascinating by the way more detail is revealed with each step you take toward it.

23.02.2026 23:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sunday Stealing, and an announcement! First, the announcement: I sent out a new installment of the newsletter the other day! This one was in remembrance of actor/director/playwright Tom Noonan, who died recently. Please check it out and subscribe! I try to send it twice a month, with usually a long piece or essay. Now, for the weekly quiz-thing that I don't always do weekly but this week I am because it's prompt-based, which is interesting. Here's the details: This week we're playing word association as suggested by a blogger named Dawn Camp. She said these words "tickled her fancy," and let's see if they inspire you.

Sunday Stealing, and an announcement!

First, the announcement: I sent out a new installment of the newsletter the other day! This one was in remembrance of actor/director/playwright Tom Noonan, who died recently. Please check it out and subscribe! I try to send it twice a month, with usually a…

22.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Now I'm picturing Letterkenny characters in G&S!

Squirrely Dan: "I am the very models of a modern majors generals!"

Chorus: "Behold the Lord High Executioner!" Roald: "STRT!"

22.02.2026 01:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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