Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!)

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

I love the last line of this skeet.

You’re an inspiration. Seriously.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

A picture of two old men from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source. The headline is “Old Man’s Son Also Old Man.”

John Williams, the 94-year-old emperor of movie music…

…is alive and well!

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

Who among us, etc.

I’d want to root around in the data and survey, or have someone I trust do so, but hoo boy, this hits.

Campbell has real and serious chops. You don’t sell a character/caricature like Ash without them. May recovery be swift and full.

(putting pedant hat on) “English needs a second-person plural!” No, English needs a second-person *singular*. We used to have “thou.”

My mother in southern Indiana always used “you uns.” Not a Pittsburgh “yinz,” but “you uns.”

This may seem trivial to people who use the word "sportsball" online, but remember that, for many Americans, the events that finally drove home the severity of COVID was the cancellation of March Madness.

I’m In This Photo And I Don’t Like It

Apologies for not having been on much. End of the quarter and I’m exhausted.

You got ‘em.

Remember the Basic Questions of Journalism:

How
Who
What
When
Where
Why
WTF

Thomas Friedman may have gotten everything about Iraq wrong, but he's not going to let that stop him from getting everything about Iran wrong either!

HANK HILL: bobby, do you have any idea how many people are killed each year by the production and burning of coal

BOBBY HILL: mans kingdom is not on this earth, dad

HANK HILL: bwaaahh

WarGames is such a fascinating movie, made more so by the fact that Matthew Broderick was 37 at the time of filming.

I would be curious to know which company.

I miss consistent teaching.

I do not miss grading.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

JQA and the Subterraneans – log entry 14 It is finished. You may download the vocal score here. .mp3 files for MIDI mockups of Act I, Act II, and Act III are also available. Thank you for your support. See the vocal score for the three po…

Working on that. The premiere got cancelled for a variety of reasons.

wesflinnmusic.com/2023/07/04/j...

Having written one sci-fi opera about John Quincy Adams, I now want to write…*another* sci-fi opera about John Quincy Adams.

I think the answer is probably (3) which is that a lot of populist politics are ideologically incoherent and conspiratorial in a way that transcends whether they are left or right-coded, and that this is all downstream of the total aesthetization of politics, and the collapse of strong boundaries.

Markie Post could, as the kids used to say, get it.

No.

NO.

Tear that banner down.