The New Coffee Room

‘All right’ is what you’d find in a style guide. But ‘alright’ has been used in error long enough to have made the dictionary too.

Can it improve on the free version when it comes to explaining fart composition?

I mean, useful is as useful does.

This seems like a good thread for your periodic reminder that the man fighting the pope has a sorceress as a spiritual advisor.

I’d love to be in the GOP strategy sessions.

“Gee, we’re on track to get our asses handed to us in the midterms. What should we do?”

“Pick a fight with the Pope?”

I saw him once before, at Carnegie hall, 15-20 years ago. He played Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes.

Come to think of it it was probably 20 years ago, since I remember I was working on them (well maybe half of them) at the time.

No he read from the soft cover Henle edition. He had a page turner on the stage with him.

Funny thing was, at first he was turning his own pages despite the young man there next to him. I was thinking ‘what is he, your emotional support human?’ Then I realized he turned his own pages if they were between pieces or movements and the other guy turned them if they were in the middle of a piece.

I did but two hours of P&F was a lot. Not gonna lie.

Conference tomorrow and our grant advisory committee meets Saturday. Sunday through Tuesday is vacation in Palm Beach.

It’s actually one degree colder here than in NY at the moment.

My flight left at 6am. Got home from the concert last night around 11pm. 3:30am alarm came early. But I slept on the plane and can nap a bit today if I want. Nothing going on until dinner today.

So I thought. But my uber driver actually has a figurine of his doctor in his car.

Very good. I’m not as familiar with book II, it’s so much more expansive and difficult-sounding than book I. He used quite a bit of pedal.

Roman numeral puns are great and I for one will continue to make them.

At 92nd st Y with Bootsy. Smallish venue.

Program was WTC Book 2 in its entirety.

Comment gif is funny too.

I envision the worst of my capital gains surviving me and getting reset to zero in the hands of the boy.

The equipment of a British soldier, battle of the Somme, 1916.

S&P hit a new high today.