Holy Librarians

Dapper Kitty Music Nestled in the center of The Happy Valley, Dapper Kitty Music is an independent music studio, co-owned and operated by a music professor and a library director, both multi-instrumentalists and produce...

#musicstudio, #bskymusic, #tonguedrums, #improvisation, #studiocats, #ambient During the pandemic, I started a YouTube channel. Many of the videos are just me playing tongue drums in the morning--little improvisations: youtube.com/@dapperkitty...

Orange and white kitty reaching up to a beer on a table. Meme reads, "I Need Diz." The idea behind my posting this meme is that it's really hot here and I'd love a cold beer. My cat would even love a cold beer to paw at like this kitty.

Iz so hot here. #cats, #blueskycats, #beer, #summer

Purple, yellow, blue, and white organic catnip pillow or bag that reads, "Dude You gotta fuckin' rub your face in this shit."

#cats, #kitties, #blueskycats, #meow, #catnip LC's kitty gets only the best stuff:

A picture of the cosmos with whirling blue vapor and stars. The meme reads, "Thank you for contacting the abyss. Your scream is very important to us."

Nice to be here, don't you agree? We feel out-of-sight. #hellobluesky, #greetings, #moodyblues, #musicology

Dapper Kitty Music Nestled in the center of The Happy Valley, Dapper Kitty Music is an independent music studio, co-owned and operated by a music professor and a library director, both multi-instrumentalists and produce...

#music, #meditation During the pandemic, my studio began a YouTube channel. Many of the videos there are just me playing my tongue drums in the morning--little improvisations and meditations. Others feature our songs, including Noizy Library and Those Fabulous Hippies: youtube.com/@dapperkitty...

Listen to Jazz! Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre explores jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchange, with a focus on 50 must-hear musician…

Today, my book, _Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre_ is officially published!

The site for my book is here: www.bloomsbury.com/9781440875519 and below is a brief description. #vinyl, #SoundStudies, #MusicTheory, #RecordAlbums, #SoundRecordings, #AmericanMusic, #MusicProduction, #Nonfiction

This is LC's sixth book! Hooray!

A low-resolution picture of my book, _Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre_ with a description: "Providing an introductory overview of jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchange, _Listen to Jazz!_ explores the diversity of jazz's sounds, compositions, recordings, and styles. Surveying the sounds, concepts, performances, and production of jazz, this work includes A-to-Z entries on recent jazz musicians from around the world, jazz musicians and recordings that have been marginalized, and musicians, songs, and albums that have contributed to the defining aspects of specific jazz styles. Chapters on the impact of jazz on popular culture and its legacy, as well as a bibliography, enhance the historical and analytical content of the work." Publication dates, pages, ISBN, and series information follow.

Today, my book, _Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre_ is officially published!

The site for my book is here: www.bloomsbury.com/9781440875519 and below is a brief description. #Musicology, #Ethnomusicology, #MusicAnalysis, #Jazz, #JazzStudies, #AfricanAmericanStudies, #AcademicPublishing

The iconic Beatles' Abbey Road walk with a vibrant cosmos (stars, night sky, vapors) in the background. We love The Beatles.

Yes, it sometimes feels disconnected here. We'll do our best to be present, where we can at least be found. For all of our friends out in the cosmos looking for their people here on Bluesky, we get it. And we're still here with many of you in our hearts. #QuitFaceBook, #QuitX, #musicology, #music

Orange and white kitty reaching up to a beer on a table. Meme reads, "I Need Diz." The idea behind my posting this meme is that it's really hot here and I'd love a cold beer. My cat would even love a cold beer to paw at like this kitty.

Iz so hot here. #cats, #blueskycats, #beer, #summer

Charlie Brown and his friend listening to a record playing. Captioned, "I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things."

Word. #musicology, #vinyl, #music, #darkness

A green anole showing off their glorious red throat by puffing it up.

Meanwhile in Louisiana... #Louisiana, #boredblusky, #lizards

Murderkowski

Murderkowski.

Plain meme with black letters that reads, You are not a machine. You're a soul who needs music, connection, sunsets, laughter, and small pockets of joy. Prioritize them like your life depends on it--because it does.

Just where at least one of us is at lately: #musicproducer, #radio, #music, #musicology

Plain black-and-white meme that reads, "Personally, I like to surround myself with people who have extensive vocabularies but nevertheless choose to say 'fuck' a lot."

Pink and green background with meme that reads, "In honor of Pride Month, I'm using napkins from Chick-fil-A to clog the toilets at Hobby Lobby."

May the fourth be with you...

A chill squirrel lying on a tree branch with green leaves in the background. Happy spring!

Action Squirrel says, "hey." #squirrels, #notcats, #spring

A mid-meowing grayish kitty with jello shots in the background.

Yes, it is time for jello shot cat. Happy Friday! #cats, #Friday

Meme that shows a guy labeled as "your timeline," eying a giant capybara labeled as "capybara content." Included in the picture is an offended woman looking annoyingly at the guy. She's labeled as "existential dread." Capybara content, ftw.

Today's Capy brought to you by The HLs. #capybara, #fuckit

Hurray! My hometown! 💗

#HandsOff Santa Barbara!

📷: Society of Fearless Grandmothers

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, a landmark of the San Francisco Renaissance Writers, with banners that read, "Dissent is not un-American." Each banner consists of a famous protester.

Well, this stands time.

Stolen from FB...

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Kliban cat drawing of the tabby cat (a.k.a. Quat) sleeping on top of the TV.

Kitten with floofed-out tail: Cat is all white with just a calico patterned tail. Kitty's not weird. Kitty has flair!

For all of you with flair, we just want to say that we love you.

Kitty cat comic strip with two kitties pondering whether or not to release humans back to the wild.

Just leaving this one here. #cats, #bskycats, #meow

Tiny black kitty snoozing with extended sharp feet on a hippie sheet. Her name is Aasta and she rocks my world.

Aasta says, hi, hippie style.