D Fletcher Dunham

I lived in a seven-story walk-up & that was quite enough! & I was 24!

this sucks so much

okay but now do Brahms, Sibelius, & Berg

this is objectively correct

people always make these pronouncements as if they have had multiple meals at four dozen restaurants in each US city & carefully tabulated it all

I think I could very easily do without Intermezzo, Die schweisgsame Frau, Friedenstag, Danae, &c

I don't believe so! The Paris Arabella is indeed beautiful. Of course I love the Yoolia recording if you can put up w/ Fishy-Dishy hollering away (Donath as Zdenka is especially nice)

& one of my favorite reviews of anything, but the late great Albert Innaurato
parterre.com/2016/03/09/s...

of course it is

Frau ohne Schatten deep dive baBY

what's it's like dealing with LAFD reviews:

My dad: "wow look at Vanessa Williams"
Me: "oh my GOD it's BERNADETTE"

It had BERNADETTE PETERS just for the gays!

In LA they’re totally different by jurisdiction (eg apparently people can make sharper turns in Santa Monica than Culver City)

yes you often come across compact space maximums plus 10” min clearances around columns that drive the standard parking bay dims way up, only way around it is expensive (& TALL) transfer beams

people like big windows Mike

I still haven’t seen Mad Men; I await the ticker-tape parade in my honor

Congrats to ME for not watching a tv show

I agree & was sort of surprised at the vehemence of the arguments against mixed-income cross-subsidizing social housing

this is how I feel about all chilis, incredibly unpleasant & lingers way too long

there are DOZENS of us

can we start risotto discourse

Weird quirk of mine! I do have four different kinds of pepper

I don’t really eat anything in the capsicum family if I can help it

zero

R. Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op. 65 - Act 1: "Sie aus dem Hause" YouTube video by Hildegard Behrens - Topic

I'll always come back to this

José van Dam, Suave and Riveting Opera Star, Dies at 85

the greatest: Figaro, Sachs, Méphistophélès, Amfortas, Escamillo, Golaud, Barak, Philippe, Jochanaan...

Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military Some senior officials resisted the decision to approve the major military spending increase, people familiar with the matter say.

Reading this story—about how the Pentagon has been given so much extra money it's struggling to spend it all—while thinking about the formerly homeless tenants I've spoken with in recent weeks whose housing vouchers are being discontinued for "lack of funds."

yeah I’ve heard it at 7-11s before but public transit station is somehow bleaker

“You know what could make this worse? Bach.”