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Robin Mitchell-Boyask

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Teacher, scholar, family guy, owned by really cute dog, lover of classical music and classical literature, rider of mass transit, relentlessly moderate in most things in life, spending more time in nature as I get older

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Latest posts by robinm-b.bsky.social on Bluesky

Higher ed only has a bad approval rating if you don’t compare it to any other institution in America

07.10.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s nothing quite like starting your morning with overreacting to almost being run over by a speeding e-scooter on the sidewalk

07.10.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2) Drowning out the wind choirs at the transition to the 2nd theme a cardinal sin in my book. Lim is currently better suited for the Bartok 1, but Philadelphia doesn’t have the guts to program that piece. I’ve almost given up on ever hearing it live. As Abbado graffitied Rome in WWII, Viva Bartok!

06.10.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1) Yesterday Yunchan Lim soloed in the Bartok 3rd in Philadelphia. While he is certainly a virtuoso pianist, he also sounded too young to be playing that piece; with his loud, relatively aggressive playing, I wasn’t sure he really understood it.

06.10.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We traded in our Honda PHEV for a slightly used electric VW (made in the USA) Used ev prices are insanely low.

04.10.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

01.10.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 24592    πŸ” 8208    πŸ’¬ 648    πŸ“Œ 2183

Phillies have decided to get a head start on their postseason hitting slump

27.09.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One more time to Hurts-haters: shut up 😜

21.09.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think Redford’s last appearance was in a cameo in the first episode of the last season of Dark Winds

16.09.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or at some point the prize for the victorious poet was a goat

15.09.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, after solving the SEPTA crisis,why not? oh, wait ….

15.09.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your column has a mistake. Berkeley not Stanford

14.09.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Satire of academic life, especially English professors, involving British and American professors crossing the Atlantic (among other things)

12.09.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How does she feel about Space Balls 2?

12.09.2025 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Have you read David Lodge’s novels ?

12.09.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The people left behind typically express, in disbelief, that The Other People would be deported

10.09.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s what’s happening in the US.

10.09.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

SEPTA has to raid its capital budget to keep operating . But so many buses are missing from my bus 23 that it’s barely operational.

09.09.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Returning to this after the death of conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi, who seemingly never forgot the lessons of the Nazis’ murder of his parents and uncle (Dietrich Bonhoeffer). After Trump I’s travel ban against Muslims, he published an extended denunciation of the immortality of such actions.

09.09.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t forget Henri LeConte

07.09.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The US Open has an official who sole job is to decide which celebrities get free courtside tickets. That’s right, the Anna Wintours of the world get free seats. And I thought Josh Harris bringing Robert Kraft courtside to a 76ers game was nauseating (albeit for an additional reason).

07.09.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And how about the Met’s gay music director saying nothing about Saudi homophobia?

04.09.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Peter Gelb is selling the soul of the Met Opera to Saudi Arabia to try to recover financially. Has anyone told his gay MD yet? Or has the latter’s relentlessly positive attitude simply surfed over that moral quagmire? As long as his own checks clear?

03.09.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I can’t remember such a large number of straight set matches at the us open

02.09.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wasn’t saying he was in office then. My point is that he has done nothing visible to get Pennsylvania its more modern, less destructive economy

01.09.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do the ESPN Sunday night baseball announcers ever stop babbling?

01.09.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup and that is unproductive

29.08.2025 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But the Chicago fiasco goes way beyond classics in shifting focus to modern America, away from the past and the rest of the world

29.08.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Other states get battery plants and chip factories. Even Ohio. We get fossil fuels and a governor who has spent much of the last 2 years running for president

28.08.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

We’ve had those invasive flies in Philadelphia for a few years, but the damage inflicted by them has been far less than forecast here.

27.08.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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