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I don’t win much.

Wait, they issue new bingo cards *every month*?

Mine still has a bunch of Lewinsky stuff on it.

This really does sum up Twitter these days: “I didn’t read the article but whoever wrote it needs to read my book.”

I do appreciate how deeply JS Bach buried these pieces so that no one would find them until after Liszt and Stokowski were safely dead.

Today’s follow-up:

Balancing a Crutch on the Head aka the Drunken Immortal Field Sobriety Test

#新義和歌劇團 #歌仔戲 #kuaáhì #TaiwaneseOpera

Kid better watch out.

I’d sooner kick over a kid’s sand-castle than disturb the lovely foam on my latte. What am I to do?

The indomitable 孫凱琳 delivers a knockout for the 春美歌劇團. From the stage at Kaohsiung’s tiny 九天堂

#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera

What We Can Do About ICE ICE is in the Bay Area. And yes, we can all do something about it.

While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

Oops, messed up with that last photo. Correction:

It’s never too early to start drilling your tot on the basics of aerial stage combat.

From Tainan’s lively 水錦歌劇團, up north for a short stint at Bali’s 安福宮.

#TaiwaneseOpera #歌仔戲 #kuaáhì

I presume the dick-measuring was a feature of the Council meetings themselves.

I would be thrilled if my husband’s viola would remember to remind him when it’s time to come upstairs for dinner.

I gave up on German crosswords the day I came across the clue “Menschenrasse” for a five-letter word beginning with “N”.

Okay, but when is Bates gonna auction it as an NFT?

A Night at the TOY Theatre!

Your best ever night at the #theatre? Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Thurs 13 Nov to recreate it - or stage the show of your dreams - & discover the use of #toy theatre in #heritage #research! From my fab PhD student @pdwebster.bsky.social. @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
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Let me know if I can be of any opera-viewing assistance while you’re here.

Still offline, but they have managed to change the color of the 404 screen.

Maybe, maybe not…

I return to Taipei next week for 2+ months and am simply overwhelmed by the number and quality of outdoor temple-fair opera offerings for the first part of October. And on the weekends there are shows in the indoor theaters. It’s bonkers!

#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera

I’m so looking forward to episodes of MorseGPT, where the curmudgeonly detective hallucinates a crime, all the suspects, & an unexpected solution.

“You see, Lewis, this arsobromine we found at Oxford’s King’s College could have been made at home from Marmite and cigarette stubs. It was the dog.”

The joke’s on them. I registered my account under the name Anna Karenina.

只可說以指喻指之非指，以馬喻馬之非馬。

"Well, you know," with an almost Saussurean air, "a finger signifying a finger is not actually a finger. Just as, of course, a horse signifying a horse isn't actually a horse!"

I agree with the sentiment, but can we dispense with the use of “kabuki” when “farce” is meant?

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Eisler was a student of Arnold Schönberg’s, but he could also write a good tune when the occasion called for it:

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Hanns Eisler was a singular composer: scrupulous yet vibrant. He achieved far less than what he was capable of, due to the circumstances alluded to by Professor Wolff.

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It’s always a special day when someone from the Sinosphere’s theatre world discovers Zeffirelli’s “Turandot” production for the first time and are gobsmacked by the production’s sheer idiocy.

#MetropolitanOpera #Turandot #FlamingGarbage

And Etsy pulls through in the nick of time.

Meanwhile, i would like to see this cold case reopened.