February 2012
16 posts
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Woman in Comedy: A really scary thing happened to...
digsyfinallyhasa:
gabydunn:
Part of me thinks it’s too soon to be writing about this because I don’t think I’ve completely processed how I feel, but I also think maybe this has happened to other women and I should talk about it in as raw a way as possible. I’m still really embarrassed and ashamed and garbled up inside, but maybe this can start a helpful discussion in terms of women and...
Good Use of a Buck
curtisretherford:
I spent a dollar to have this post highlighted.
Don’t miss this, you guys.
“I was 13, I didn’t like opera, ew. I liked cheerleading and boys. That was what...”
– Meryl Streep on studying opera as a teenager (via nprfreshair)
MERYL STREEP AS A COLORATURA SOPRANO I THINK I NEED A CHANGE OF PANTS
January 2012
18 posts
Jen Kirkman - comedian: What I Would Have Said... →
digsyfinallyhasa:
jenkirkman:
**I wrote this last night but was shy about publishing it. But I feel good about it today. Please forgive any grammar or spelling errors. I’m not the best editor. ** - Jen Kirkman
I was supposed to talk to the Larry Mantle show on NPR this week. They wanted to talk to me about the recent…
This is brilliant.
I want everyone in the world to read this.
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Cell phone interrupts Mahler's 9th Symphony,... →
Since I know classical music is boring, let me sum up.
Asshole’s phone rings during the dénouement of a very dramatic symphony.
Conductor Alan Gilbert notices.
Cell phone does not stop.
Alan Gilbert stops the music (which almost never happens. I have seen people carried out of operas on stretchers while the show was still going on uninterrupted).
Alan Gilbert finds out whose phone it...
leadingtone:
An interval cycle is the set of stacked iterations of a given musical interval, beginning with the starting pitch class and continuing until that pitch class occurs again in the series. For example, the chromatic scale can be thought of as an interval cycle on the minor second—which has a length of 12, since if we begin stacking minor seconds above C, it takes 12 iterations before...
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December 2011
20 posts
The Wealth Gap Between Congress and Voters Is... →
Both The New York Times and The Washington Post have separate reports today about the widening wealth gap between members of Congress and the people they represent. Almost half of all Congresspeople are millionaires and their median net worth has climbed to $913,000, compared to $100,000 for the rest of America households. According to the Post, that number drops to $725,000 when excluding home...
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Impostor Phenomenon
The other day I was explaining a music theory concept to my friend Sara, who has never studied music theory despite being quite a good musician. I was talking about polyphony and homophony (which I guess are maybe two concepts, depending on how you think about it). Before I defined those two terms for her, I told her, “You probably know what these are already. You can probably recognize...
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I don't care what you guys say
Rick Perry is super hot and I would fuck him in the butt with my peepee.
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“And finally, to LGBT men and women worldwide, let me say this: Wherever you live...”
– Hillary Rodham Clinton, 06 December 2011
We all know how much I love President Obama, but this makes a little part of my brain go “HILLARY ‘08!”
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