Duolingo badge proclaiming a 1500 day learning streak.
I started Duolingo during lockdown, and while I’m still very much a monoglot, my score isn’t particularly impressive, and my progress could be fairly described as glacial, at least I’ve kept at it!
PS IT'S FREEEEEEEE!!!
I know I should probably be more dignified and penitential, given that this musical offering is for Lent, but *bounce bounce bounce* IT'S GONNA BE SO SO SO SO GOOD!!!
Come hear ECHO this Saturday at 7pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Catheral on 6th!
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Banner image of sun through cathedral windows over which the title ECHO: Listen Beyond the Final Note is superimposed. The date is March 7th 2026, the time is 7:00 pm, and the location is St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego (2728 Sixth Ave). Event description: a Lenten service of music & silence featuring the music of Arvo Pärt, Anton Heiller, Antonio Lotti, Josef Rheinberger, and Ola Gjeilo.
San Diego friends! I'm singing on this rather splendid (and FREE!) Lenten offering at St. Paul's this Saturday at 7pm in service of prayer and reflection.
Come bask in stunning music without the trappings of a traditional service or concert & depart in peace.
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Happy Kurt Weill's birthday!
WOO HOOOO!!!
If anyone actually needs an excuse to listen to Judy Garland sing Lost in the Stars today, that's a good one!
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“I want to tell you about the paintings—those flowers, Alfred—and all of the hearsay over what they supposedly represent, when the truth could not be more plain: They are basset hound dogs,” O’Keeffe wrote in a 1941 letter to her husband
OH THANK GOD
SACRA/PROFANA, San Diego's premier professional choral ensemble, presents THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE. Our nonprofit concert partner is DarkSky San Diego County, part of a global movement to protect the environment, communities, and wildlife from the harmful effects of light pollution.
San Diego friends! We're singing some (literally & figuratively!) stellar music on Saturday! Come bask in soul-healing sonic splendor if you're available!
Discount code: InfiniteF&F (for $15 adv gen admission adult)
Tix/info: www.sacraprofana.org/event-detail...
Thank goodness for my in-house music theorist.
You might think this is the setup for a “said no one, ever” joke, but it really, really isn’t.
The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.
But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.
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The small amount I've learned from working with nonprofits over the years leads me to suspect that they're doing it this way because the rules & red tape for auctions are considerable & they don't want to pay someone else to host it.
But now I wonder what naming rights we could be missing out on...
DUDE. Anyone with a spare $6K-$50K to donate to oceanographic research gets to name a newly-discovered deep-sea creature! Annelids! Slugs! Sea stars! TUBE WORMS!
PS Oooooo potential sea slug namers, I don't think Sluggy McSlugface is taken yet!
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Why does my Starbucks login time out more quickly than my bank login?
interviewed Ramirez about her plans to dismantle DHS, abolish ICE, and put money towards housing and health care for communities ICE is terrorizing. www.publicnotice.co/p/delia-rami...
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
THE ABSOLUTE COOLEST GUY who also is very kind about those of us not blessed with the special ingredient and also we sopranos who move our heads a lot when we sing 😅
Oooo it might be fun to mash up Surfin' Bird and Adeste Fidelis just so I can put "bird" atop Willcocks's famous "Word" Chord!
...good thing I have most of a year to do it. Especially considering I need to get around to writing my Banana Boat motet at some point before the next April Fool's Sunday
PPPS
Title: Avis undas equitavit (bird that rides the waves)
Lyrics by: Viri Purgamenti (men of garbage)
PPS
Omnes de ave audiverunt
Omnes audistis quod avis est verbum
Avis volucris et aves volucris avisque
Et ubique omnes sciunt sciunt volucris esse verbum
Everyone has heard of the bird.
You've all heard that bird is a word.
Bird x 5
And everyone everywhere knows, they know that bird is a word.
Welp. It's been a very tough time on many levels, but on the bright side, I translated The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird into quasi-liturgical Latin (Avis undas equitat) and set it to an actual Byrd motet (Tui sunt caeli). So there is that.
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Relive the excitement of Saturday's 14th Annual Capybara Long Bath Contest! Here's a video of the winning contestant, Prune from Nagasaki Bio Park, enjoying her winning long soak in the ofuro for 1 hour and 45 minutes. (The action starts around 29'05")
#capybara #wintersports
A corgi laying in a window filled with Christmas lights
We saw a ghost the other night, Tâf and I, out on the footpath.
Well. She saw a ghost. I didn’t see anything.
I felt them, though, knew they were there.
One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
My friend wrote this awesome piece on Wake Up, Dead Man!
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One of the things that gets me about them people who are like “they are ending the constitution to distract from the Epstein files, don’t fall for it” is that nobody in power cares about little girls.
