Matt Schoendorff

(2/2) Moral of the story? You have all the power within you to create your reality. You can make it as bad or as good as you want. Sure, bad things out of your control will still happen. But you have the power to decide if those things will break you or make you stronger.
Stay strong! ✊

(1/2) Here’s the thing: Life never gave you or anyone else lemons. Lemons are a man-made crossbred hybrid between the sour orange and the citron. People gave us lemons. And lemonade.

(2/2) Hope the game is actually fútbol, not football. Hope Argentina beats Brazil. Hope Bad Bunny is the ONLY U.S. citizen on the field all day.

(1/2) Bad Bunny is performing the Super Bowl halftime show, all in Spanish? GOOD.
Hope it’s subtitled in five other languages, NONE of them English. Hope the announcers speak Spanish throughout the game.

This explains so much

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? - The Guardian

Live. Laugh. Blave.

I’d like a vacuum please

Oh my glob, we grew up neighbors! I’m a Flint native.

TIL dill pickle and avocado *can* work together in a sandwich, but probably shouldn’t

That is the funnest fact

Waiting for Godot Broadway Tickets | The Official NY Theatre Guide Book theatre tickets for Waiting for Godot in New York. Sunset Boulevard director Jamie Lloyd stages a new production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter starring in Waiting for Godot is somehow perfect for an aging Bill and Ted.

Bill: Well, should we learn to play guitar?
Ted: Yes, let’s learn to play guitar.
They do not learn to play guitar.

www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41928-w...

(3/3) Yeah, I…I don’t know. 🤷‍♂️ It was weird and actually more sublime than I’m making it sound. And it all made absolute *perfect* sense at the time. Still kinda does.

(2/3) I was shown that pain and suffering, and even hell itself, were actually just byproducts of the process, waste material left over, concentrated into certain areas of reality to allow others to flourish and grow as the arrow of entropy and timw played forward from our point of view.

(1/3) Had a dream last night that I drifted up through the cosmos and the dimensions until I reached the highest, most fundamental dimension of reality and talked to “god”—who ended up being a series of entropy shepherds.

Y’know when people say the secret ingredient in their cooking is love?
It’s actually extra garlic.
Love = garlic, and the more garlic added, the more the dish is prepared with love.

“Know Your Rights Youth-Centered Training: Keeping our communities safe, informed, and powerful in the face of federal overreach. Tues, August 19 at 6:00 PM on Zoom. bit.ly/free-dc-youth-rights”

TUESDAY: Join us for a youth-centered Know Your Rights training.

You’ll get guidance for street encounters, strategies to protect and uplift Black youth, and tools to push back against harmful “crime wave” narratives.

Register: bit.ly/free-dc-youth-rights

The Audacity, by Meerenai Shim 7 track album

Anyway, I have an album coming out.
September 5, 2025.
Pre-order on @bandcamp.com now: meerenai.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...

Compositions by Steve Reich, @ebakermusic.bsky.social, @megwilhoite.bsky.social, Brent Miller, and Janice Misurell-Mitchell.

My Baby Tiger™️ never cooperates for photos, either 😺

Your brain shrinks after 40. Learning a musical instrument can reverse it. - National Geographic

Good. Maybe I’m just not seeing that being reported much.

Sure would be nice if literally anyone in the federal judiciary or legislature would fulfill their constitutional oath to check and balance the executive branch at some point.
Just sayin’…

Is AI ruining music? What makes music “real” — is it the instruments, the voice, the creator’s intention or something else entirely? Dustin Ballard, the creative force behind the viral channel “There I Ruined It,” explore...

AI is here, in our music, whether we like it or not. Here’s the guy behind ‘There I Ruined It’ giving a TED talk about it, with probably the healthiest take on the issue I have yet seen.

www.ted.com/talks/dustin...

Composers and new-music folks!

I host a nationally-distributed contemporary classical radio show, and for this December I’m looking for music about:

- snow, ice, cold
- stillness, stars, night
- holiday-adjacent
- renewal

Bonus points if it’s a commercial release, but not a requirement!

I’ve been worried about this eventuality for awhile now. Teaching is so much more than just the presentation and repetition of material, and I fear that’s all AI will be trained to do.

Ok, but how morbid is it that salmon is a shade of pink, not silver-gray?

I’m finally getting around to watching Sinners.
It’s a fantastic movie, even if it does pour salt into some very open wounds.

I love this plan! I’m excited to be a part of it!
Let’s do it!

This is priceless, as priceless as Lehrer himself.

Make Conspiracy Theories Fringe Again

Doctors Pepper is correct.
But this is one of those situations where doing the right thing probably will make you the weird pariah, so 🤷‍♂️