Phil Gentry

She is in this group cello class with two 4yos and is just staring daggers at them the whole time. 😭

I really appreciate how much my daughter (age 9) detests small children.

guess it was only a matter of time before somebody copied @musicologyduck.bsky.social 😞

I can’t recall any besides Quebec, including Milwaukee or Denver.

Picked a good time to watch baseball for the first time in a year.

make a different choice in another year

Totally—I wouldn’t mind at all my kids getting actual computer instruction!

oh yeah, pssa’s are all online. I know plenty of it is well-meaning, but, it’s all pretty grim. Lots of adults who think they think they are preparing their kids for the future as if it was 1995.

That’s definitely a big aspect of it for our school, which is very poor, but does intersect with some unfortunate strategies that think teaching with “technology” is modern and good.

Endless screen time, from chromebooks to smart boards, often to show pretty shitty stuff or even just unrestricted YouTube, has been such a feature of elementary school for both of my kids, and I find it very discouraging!

Oh to be a 12yo walking around west philly, dressed as a chicken.

Nobody warns you that as you get more senior in a profession, it’s harder to catch up on work because during meetings you’re running them instead of tuning them out.

Gentleman next to me at the ballet licking his fingers to really dig into his crinkly potato chip bag to get out every last grain of salt, during the performance. 😵‍💫

I think have long established, both on social media and in my academic writing, my credentials as the whitest possible human, and I absolutely refer to any cousin older than me as aunt or uncle.

me in the group chat

OK, but on the plus side my seminar is doing a unit on Trump and historiography so this is very convenient

The MFSB being the outlier; you can just feel how little Gamble and Huff wanted to mess around with bicentennial nonsense.

Fun seminar meeting today; we divided up into groups and each took up a Philly Bicentennial LP to investigate.

oh my goodness i love knowing this.

Mike Johnson not knowing any of the details with Yakety Sax

My 12yo just tested his Halloween costume by walking into Loco Pez and dancing like, well, a chicken. Who says Baltimore Ave is dead.

I did a class presentation on Bernini in like 9th grade that never left my brain for some reason, and once in a seminar with Susan McClary she brought him up and I was unreasonably excited.

I believe the phrase would be Quod non fecerunt Bin Laden, fecerunt Trump.

Photo of a giant dog skeleton carrying a human skeleton in its jaws, in a front yard.

Doing my part for the vitality of Baltimore Ave

The Tattooed Academic I’ve been in the United States now for 26 years, going on 27. That span of time has seen a lot of changes, large and small. A large one: a wholesale revision of mainstream American attitudes …

Man, this blog post starring @robinjames.bsky.social and myself feels like it was from decades ago, and then I looked at the date and, sure enough it basically was.
dialmformusicology.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/t...

(One of the many Kennedy-Trump similarities they point to is the resentful family patriarch promoting an alternative aristocracy based on his own sons, who he controls through sex and various other sordid things.)

I've been pretty convinced by the Know Your Enemy podcast take that Trump represents a revival of Kennedyism (charismatic leader fueled by social grievance and the calculated abuse of women) but occurs to me that Trump is more like if Joseph Kennedy Sr. had become president.

So sorry for your loss.

Yes, I've done the same with exams and other assignments, but I'll regret it if I truly can't give them what I think is an important experience of taking some time out of class to write something. But...isn't going well!

I'm doing all the Right Things with regards to AI in the classroom, but I still optimistically assign some traditional writing assignments to my big non-major classes, and it is very depressing to get the unmistakable feeling that you are really just grading their facility at crafting AI prompts. 😔