Tim Willoughby

Obviously classical music has hundreds of years to draw its hits from, but holy shit those hits…

Bach’s prelude in Cmaj is this for me and cello. Debussy’s Clair de Lune is this for me and piano.

Used to love having classical in the bar kitchen, even if it did give a low key Lector vibe sometimes.

Finished watching Malice on Amazon this week. The only reason it wasn't the worst part of my week is because I've had a particularly bad week.

I recommend that nobody watches it, but if you *did* watch it, I have lots of thoughts.

Birdhouse in Your Soul is an absolute banger, and I love the idea of singing my heart out to it in the car, but oh lordy is it a rough choice for karaoke.

So many choruses, and often without backing vocals, is really tough.

Cosmic Intervention is a little easier to stomach for me because its timing doesn’t lend itself toward looping in one turn.

I won’t go into the full details of the deterministic combo I had, but it got very very out of hand.

When I saw this earlier without context, I read it as being a very provocative statement to challenge your students with.

Now I know the context... oh my.

I have learned various things about myself this week. One of them is that I cannot be trusted to put Faith's Reward into a Commander deck.

Fixed that for you

Wylie's theme is an all timer for me, but you're right, the opening theme is bonkers. The way it transitions from something chill to the full beans is the truth.

I wonder if there's something to be said for a decklist order (when presenting it in a video or similar) which roughly ranks cards in order of replaceablility.

It's nice to have an idea of what cards to prioritise if you are open to getting new things, and which could just be something else.

It's transgender awareness week, and as a white cis-male, the best I can be is supportive.

Right now, I don't make a big hairy deal of folks gender, watch my pronouns, and shout down/inform assholes. Obviously if friends reach out I do what I can.

If there's more I can do to help, I'd like to.

Oh, yeah, if mistakes are spotted and addressed that can be great, even if in the edit.

I like watching gameplay content of all sorts of board games/card games/video games.

Am I the only one who struggles to keep watching once there is a moment where the player we're following clearly starts misplaying?

The roadworks outside my window started at 8.45am.

My plans of a day at home quietly sorting things out may have to change…

Love the original, love your riff on it, wardrobe and all, love how into it @meghanwolff.bsky.social was, as I’m pretty sure it is exactly her happy place.

👀

Heinz vs other ketchups is occasionally close. Making a ketchup that can even get identified as a ketchup is stunningly hard. The original post was on the money.

“(Precision) Bolt your commander. Counterspell? Nope, I have Force (Void)!”

Trying to think of something fun to provide in return.

I have a lecture from Jason Alexander from Seinfeld about how he approached performing at The Magic Castle.

Oof. That is one I might need to track down sometime soon.

Need to go back and watch The Fisher King.

The number of insane RW performances not yet mentioned here is so high.

I spent a bunch of time learning his speech from Good Will Hunting, which is iconic.

Good Morning Vietnam is great

I don’t think Dead Poets Society has aged super well, but it’s still good.

Hell, Patch Adams is also 🔥

I wonder how frequently the term ‘cinema’ is used in the western speaking world each day, compared to visits to the actual cinema.

There's also something insidious and deeply concerning about the assorted AI systems that are getting built into stuff that you have to jump through hoops to opt out of.

Took me *a while* today to disable CoPilot.

I could be sleeping right now. I *should* be sleeping right now.

In fact, I'm working on a karaoke mashup of Imagine by John Lennon and What's Up? by Four Non Blondes.

Some of us are just built different, ok?

By that point the partner commander decks are already locked. It’s already too late.

I guess I tell them that the way to have other formats keep up with Commander is not Modern Horizons and a move away from supporting store events.

It is a cruel twist of numbers that I wasn’t alive in the last summer of ‘69, and that I’ll be in my 80s on the next summer of ‘69.

And this is better for Connections, which is actually the never credited puzzle wall from British game show Only Connect

puzzgrid.com

Quordle Put your skills to the test and solve four words at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.

This is a more satisfying version of Wordle

www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordl...

YouTube video by Annie Lennox Love Song For A Vampire

The lurid mess that was Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula came out 33 years ago.

Some wild performances/story choices/effects in there. My favourite thing about it was this;

youtu.be/vhG8zC4npsE?...

Not saying it's better or worse, but the way that a lot of measurement in the US works feels whimsically imprecise.

For cooking, it's cups, and butter is sticks. For cocktails it's often measures. And then there's inches.

It all feels a bit like eyeballing it, shrugging and saying 'close enough'.