Benny Drawbars

(headline is slightly misleading in that it was an insert put together by a Hearst subsidiary that the Sun Times distributed with their paper, but the main point stands: the probability machine is making so many things worse in myriad ways, it is driving me to madness)

(And if you're King Features and you don't care about the content of your inserts being accurate, you can also just not make them! It's actually way easier, and doesn't provide any less useful information to people than putting out one that's garbage! )

to lazily throw together slop for slop's sake. I do not understand having so little curiosity about the world or any desire to experience it with your own senses or imagination that it's preferable to have a probability calculator do it for you.

It's pretty simple: if you don't want to write stuff, just don't be a writer! There are other things to do! There are plenty if people who *are* passionate about it and actually want to do it, thoughtfully, and well! Let them do it! And pay them for their expertise! Unconscionable

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist "I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."

Look, I try to avoid posting anything not related to playing 20 seconds of a song at a hockey game, but as a musician and person who makes stuff, this is infuriating.

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Inside of pipe organ, showing wood framing, metal pipes, and carbon fiber/steel action connections

Exterior of pipe organ under construction, showing wood case, some polished facade pipes, and through gaps with out facade pipes, various interior pipes, wind lines, and other components can be seen

Interior of pipe organ swell box chamber showing metal pipes and wind lines feeding wood pipes mounted above the roof

Not a fact, but some fun shots of a pipe organ being built

And then you see clips of him playing drums and he's amazing at that too haha

I could go on for hours about Cory Henry, one of if not the most electric performance I've ever seen was a Funk Apostles show in 2017. His ability to weave between musical styles and mastery of his instruments from like a machine/tool standpoint makes my brain hurt.

YouTube video by Kevin Jackson Cory Henry

This is as good a time as any to make sure this is on your radar youtu.be/IXNib-FsY14?...

After the Cardinals jump in Mirror Lake

Thank you for teaching me the word 'desultory' just now

Aafter the height of the theater organ's reign in the 20s, or baseball's relationship with organs kicking off in the 40s. But I'm not as well versed in the specific sports organ history as I should be, Perhaps @played41.bsky.social or @organistalert.bsky.social would have additional insight!

during the proliferation of tube/transistor organs in the post WWII era (in the vein of Ethel Smith and Tico-Tico, or Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, etc) and worked their way into the popular organ songbook. Particularly when considering the Barton was put into place at the old Chicago Stadium

See also: Mexican Hat Dance (Jarabe Tapatio), Tarantella Napoletana, Zorba's Dance, etc. Shooting from the hip and with no solid evidence, I would posit that such common folk songs might be vestiges of the silent movie theatre organ from which arena/stadium organs descend, or were popular pop tunes

How "Hava Nagila" Became a Stadium Music Mainstay How did a Hebrew melody from the Levant make it's way all the way into America's pastime, one of the heart and souls of American culture?

An interesting question I don't have an answer to! But this article from a while back about 'Hava Nagila' in baseball sprang to mind and puts forth some hypotheses for a similar case, and @jtkantor.bsky.social mentions Kalinka in hockey in his musings diamond-digest.com/2020/12/10/h...

The joys of playoff hockey

Anyway, that'll do it for me til next season! In the meantime, look after your neighbors, especially those in vulnerable communities (our trans and immigrant friends especially!), and in the words of Bill and Ted, be excellent to each other! (Also, Mariners, I'm just a water taxi ride away....)

I think the camera we mounted on the railing by me suffered some technical difficulties and went out of commission, but it at least spares the hockey going public from having to look at my ugly mug!

And lastly, since it was a beautiful spring day in Seattle on Tuesday and I've done nothing if I haven't accidentally cultivated a reputation of being the hockey organist who plays emo/pop-punk/midwest-emo/insert-related-genre here, here's Hot Mulligan's *Equip Sunglasses*

Coupled with 'Mass Pike' by The Get Up Kids in what I'm dubbing the @joshgondelman.bsky.social special after he posed the question 'how many songs are there about the Massachusetts Turnpike' about 'Threat' and because @gwenindoubt.bsky.social requested it, though I did egregiously miss a note in it

Next up: 'Threat' by Charly Bliss! Someone was very excited earlier in the season when I hit 'I'm Not Dead' and the verse of 'Threat' is incredibly fun to play!

And 'Birds of a Feather' Also hit 'Cars Trucks Buses' but didn't get a clip of that one.

Here's 'Bouncing Around the Room' by Phish (played very fast because I wanted to make sure I got to the chorus before puck drop but then it was a very long faceoff so it was in hindsight unnecessary)

Okay, several days late posting anything from Fan Appreciation Night but I have a 3.5 week old so time is meaningless! Tried to circle back to some things that seemed to really resonate with people this season, so in honor all the people who got excited about 'Stash' and their current CPA run:

Mistake is never repeated!

I can draw direct lines to where I am today back to taking wood shop in middle school/helping my dad work around the house growing up, so it's a cause I'll always champion! And I know after my middle school shop teacher retired, they never hired a replacement and just cut the program, so hoping that

HELL YEAH!

Having just watched Muppet Treasure Island, this really spoke to me this morning

S: That was a great goal
W: You know what else would be a great goal
S: what?
W: Winning a Playoff Series

(in unison) WAH! HAH! HAH!

Root position or any inversion?