Erin K. Maher

It's great when that works out! There was a show last year that I would have had to miss because I had COVID, but it was rescheduled at the last minute because of a snowstorm and I got to go after all.

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I was reading this interview from @annehelen.bsky.social on boys choirs, and the good they can do boys in terms of gender expression.

And this is true!

But I want to add something: The "magic" of the "boy soprano" has harmed adult femme singers.

Walk with me.

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lots, but here's one - sometimes I can be normal through most of the song, but the last verse *always* gets me:

I bought a ticket for the Allentown Punch Brothers show, which is also seated at a venue that isn't usually seated. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He ended up as my most-listened artist in my 2025 Apple Music recap because of the amount of time I spent in the "too stressed for lyrics but not too stressed for good instrumental music" work zone, so I'm glad to hear he's a nice person!

do not talk to me about the fact that "a" should be on the first line, this is what the meme generator gave me and I don't have time to hand-photoshop it, I'm setting boundaries with internet pedants too

The Ninja Turtles logo but it says "Setting Boundaries with a Client."

good morning, it's gonna be one of those days

I keep wishing for the return of Geocities, a place where you could put a button that just buttoned or obnoxious bright flashing words or where it was acceptable to put black text on a dark grey background and think 'yeah, that'll do'. Gosh I loved Geocities. What a mess of a place it was.

View from my seat at the Brandi Carlile concert in Philadelphia last month.

You're in the same general area I was in Philly!

When I scheduled my dissertation defense for February 29, 2016, I was like "this is great, I'll only have to have flashbacks every four years." The nonexistent ten-year anniversary passed by and I forgot to post about it, so maybe that worked??

I'm indexing a book of interviews with a French organist and having feelings about expertise and niche specializations, and I'm copyediting an anthropology textbook and having feelings about 101-level facts and ideas that should be uncontroversial. 😖

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

I miss it!!

Weather forecast for Richmond, Virginia: Wednesday 3/11: high 84, low 61, PM showers. Thursday 3/12: high 64, low 35, showers. Friday 3/13: high 54, low 44, rain/snow showers. Saturday 3/14: high 66, low 44, partly cloudy. Sunday 3/15: high 55, low 38, showers.

I looked up the weather forecast for SAM in Richmond next week, and, uh, how do you pack for a short trip that involves all four seasons?

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

Who's going to try to explain this to Caitlin Flanagan?

BIGGEST BOAT STUCK!

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment
- dont believe anything the govt says about progress
- no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war
- the war needs to be ended
- the media is not your ally and they love war

Friends and clients both make me more likely to go to a paper session, and I indexed Andrea's book. :)

I keep forgetting and remembering that SAM is so soon. 😵‍💫 I'm busy (and Tired) in ways I did not predict when I decided to go, so I'm letting go of any networking pressure, and I'll consider it a success if I hang in there and make it to some papers. (Your session is on my list - I'll try!!)

I had thought I didn't fit in because I was socially awkward, WHICH WAS CERTAINLY TRUE, but it turned out it was also because I was a fish out of water where the water I came from is people who know about the School of the Americas and why it's evil.

-We did a "how liberal or conservative are you" quiz in my US government class and people were surprised that I didn't believe in the death penalty.
-You were allowed to opt out of saying the pledge as long as you still stood up, so that's what I did.
-The school musical in 2002 was George M!

I was 15; I'd had very little exposure to normie jingoism as a child (lefty pacifist elementary school and church) and suddenly it was all around me very loudly for the rest of (public) high school and into college. 😖 I wasn't even in a conservative area, things were just Like That.

I felt worse about myself the other day when I found out I'd forgotten to put the announcement about the American Baptist Home Mission Societies offering into the order of worship for yesterday's church service and it had already been printed.

A colleague of mine was just notified by their employer that a member of the public has contacted the employer in the belief that my colleague was personally communicating with them and giving them SUPER intimate life instructions via Grammarly. Colleague is horrified and definitely didn't know.

we need a way to follow someone while muting all the discourse about them

stop showing me the rash

CSI: Manuscript - Iva Cheung

just had one of these experiences (@ivacheung.com)

I am extremely pleased to announced the publication of my latest article on PTSD, trauma-informed pedagogy, universal design for learning, and music. jmp.amsmusicology.org/trauma-infor...