Evan Ware

Getting back to kendo practice after a week of being sick!

It’s a good question and it probably has something to do with my inherently contrarian nature, as I also don’t like Tim Hortons or winter, particularly. It is possibly the only way I’ve disappointed my poor father: I don’t even know how to stop on skate skates, I just tactically use snowbanks.

I don’t like hockey <ducks and surrenders Canadian passport> but I make a big exception for women’s hockey, which I think is better in every wat

I’ve heard the G’bergs live twice now, both times on harpsichord in a church at midnight. Convinced that’s the way to do it.

SpaceX rocket streaking across the skies over a Glendora, CA mall

“The rocket made
climates, and summer lay for a brief moment upon the land ...”

-Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

I’ve done a setting off it! “Les folies du fin de semestre” 🙂

I just heard southern Italian cuisine described thus by a restaurant owner:

1) it is homemade
2) it uses various sauces

There’s a reason that one of the central things I try to pass on to my students is how to be specific and convey meaningful information.

All thanks to your posts 😄

Album cover of Jean-Marie Leclair violin sonatas played by David Plantier and Les Plaisirs du Parnasse

Doing mindless administrivia is so much better with a good soundtrack.

There’s cursing, and then there is cursing while making parts. The difference is in the depth of conviction in your soul.

Candid shot from Friday’s practice.

Random insight while walking to the car late at night:

When you lose a kendo competition, you always walk away having viscerally learned some important lessons. When you lose a composition competition, you walk away with no particular insights.

This is why I love the former and hate the latter.

<Family chats quietly with Grandma on the iPad while I am washing dishes>

Me: <subito F> IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE, BUT IT’S OVER NOW-OW-OW

Family: <slowly turn their heads and look at me silently>

Me: 😁

Nobilissima Visione is a fav for me

Yeah, I personally feel that Hindemith is a criminally underrated composer. The trumpet sonata is an amazing beast, and his orchestral works are fantastic, to say nothing of the Ludus Tonalis.

Your mind probably blocked memories of the experience because it was too traumatic

And I hear that Hindemith is more like learning from scratch-ing your eyeballs out…

I’m definitely “stop carrying out your intentions”

Love is dragging your bony old lady cat out of her condo, shoving a pill down her throat, then proceeding to give her 11 ml of tuna water with laxative in it with a syringe, and ultimately being overjoyed that she pooped on the hearth.

I was expecting Hindemith, so maybe you partially dodged a bullet?

FYI: from a friend, “A heads up to anyone who has kids in Ann Arbor Public Schools or who are teachers in the schools, ICE is scheduled to be there tomorrow (Thurs), during parent drop-off and pickup, trying to forward this on to folks who may have connections to families in both Ypsi and A2.”

<my spouse gets cut off in the school parking lot>

The Lad: How come that person was so rude? They’re not even driving a pickup truck!

My Spouse: Stop listening to your father!

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Y’all, my work here is done.

Is it set to the tune of “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered,” cause it scans perfectly

Our condo development has both a resident possum and a resident. Skunk. I appreciate both for the biodiversity they bring in the occasional late night surprise!

A front loading garbage truck with the company name “Ware” on the side

I am trash

A 1950s era unlit neon sign reading “The Golden Spur” with a giant golden spur coming out of it

Some classic Route 66 signage in Glendora, CA

First page of MLK’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Today’s reading.

Yep, huge influences on my life! Also loved the ending of Rise of Endymion

Right?!