2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Federalist Papers #16-20
These are all basically subheds under Federalist #15: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union, so let&
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A reverse-chronological log of what might be important.
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
One more Unitarian Easter arrangement
When I heard that the message was going to be about Easter as a metaphor for the turning of the
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
So the Unitarians requested "Easter, but not too Easter" and I said "okay, I'll give
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Federalist Papers #13-15
Sooooooooo I was sort of getting bored with these – but then when we got to #15, Hamilton was all "
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✦ April
What the world needs now
The best way to tell this story, I think, is backwards.
The Unitarians, having figured out that I can play
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Process update
After about a week in which I spent much of my time messing around with AI voices, I got back
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Why I'm not worried about AI
What you are about to read was originally written in May 2023; I've been thinking about it recently,
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
In which I get really really really excited about Cantai
So obviously we learned yesterday that Cantamus could turn my MELISANDE files into practice tracks for singers, this is all
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
I was wrong about Cantamus
One of the best reasons to marry the smartest person you know is that this person may turn out to
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
On mimicry and mapping
One of the things I've learned, as I've started accompanying various local choirs and community theater
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Schubert's The Trout (new English translation by me)
Soooooooooooo yes, we are starting our first MELISANDE sing-through tonight, I am very excited, but before we get to all
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Federalist Paper #12
We're having our first sing-through for MELISANDE on Friday (we're just singing through two of the
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✦ March
What have we learned?
I was thinking the other day, because Larry and I were watching Jerry Springer: The Opera –
which was his idea,
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
In which I sing "Haze" from Dave Malloy's Three Houses (and play parts of the score on the organ)
I've mentioned before that I am the organist at the local Unitarian Church, and since last week was
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Federalist Paper #11
I have been thinking about maps, lately, in a way that suggests I am about to come up with a
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
In which I actually write a love song
There's a paragraph in The Biographies of Ordinary People in which Meredith realizes that she does not know