Brian Robison

Musician, teacher, imp. Composer seeks librettist; invitation extends to drama-curious poets and poetry-curious dramatists.

[Brian Robison @BrianRobison]

I have a truly marvelous demonstration of these 30-50 feral hogs within 3-5 minutes which my yard is too narrow to contain.

[Brian Robison @BrianRobison]

@M_Harding_ That I could even ask shows you how long it's been since my toes touched a pedalboard. (And the delay in saying this shows you how long it's been since last I logged into whatever this site is called nowadays.)

[Brian Robison @BrianRobison]

@M_Harding_ Fingerings seem perfectly logical to my hands, but I'm tormented by the open question WHICH FOOT PLAYS THE LOW C#? TOE OR HEEL?

[Brian Robison @BrianRobison]

@composinghab21 Congratulations, Hannah! That's wonderful news!

[Brian Robison @BrianRobison]

@spbrodsky Pardon, but you've omitted the Frank Zappa option of suit with no shirt, which might perfectly suit this situation?

[Brian Robison @BrianRobison]

@professor_berry Ugh! Sorry to see this -- here's hoping you can recover quickly and thoroughly!

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

In case you missed it:

Ted Cruz is on tape plotting to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.

Abby Grossberg claims Tucker used his anchor-ship at Fox News to blackmail Republican politicians into doing his bidding.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

highly recommend working in social services in the US or Canada if it has somehow always been your dream to spend your lifetime trying and failing to solve incredibly expensive social problems that Finland solved decades ago for like $4/year

[Brian Robison @BrianRobison]

@piesaac Also, a pixellated version?

Ideally, with corresponding shorts that likewise present pixellated front & back ... 🤪

[score follower @incipitsify]

The way she does a trumpet half-valve but with her voice

[Brian Robison @BrianRobison]

@HanaMichels @jeremyfrankly I see that someone is too cheap to comp his own (parody) mother a blue check. (Or maybe he's just waiting for her to die?) 🤪

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

Fauci: Not textbook. Definition of herd immunity keeps being changed. Omicron is very different.
https://t.co/fa49vGG3YG

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Here we go!

British imperialism show could be Bollywood’s answer to Succession

It is Game of Thrones meets Succession, a vicious cocktail of battles and brutality, treasure and treachery. The pitch for the next big drama series sounds like high fantasy, but it centres not on imaginary moguls but real-life Mughals. The history of the East India Company (EIC) is coming to a screen near you.

The Anarchy, William Dalrymple’s acclaimed history of the EIC’s rise from Elizabethan trading company to rulers of India, is set to become an international TV series after it was acquired by a former Disney executive who is one of Bollywood’s biggest producers.

“The idea is to do it on a massive scale,” Dalrymple told The Times. “Either you don’t do it or you do it guns blazing with a cast of a thousand elephants.”

https://t.co/azlytNp2Ej

[Cooper @Cooperstreaming]

The funniest, most accurate explanation of why a blue checkmark is Elon's mark of death.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Last year, X Corp—which includes Space X & Tesla—got $2.8 billion in govt subsidies, loans & contracts, not counting hundreds of millions in incentives, labor & support from NASA & the FAA

6 days ago,Twitter became part of X Corp

This website is government-funded.

Good morning

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Today I have enhanced for you a beautiful autochrome study of "Maria" taken in the 1920s by Karel Šmirous. It is not colourised. 😍

[Sam Dean 🦅 @SamAugustDean]

Bed Bath & Beyond blew one billion dollars on stock buybacks, a direct cash transfer to shareholders, in 2021.

Now it's bankrupt, in no small part because of that $1B hole, and....no severance for workers who've been there for 20 years.

https://t.co/jkuPMAPW0M

[Gary Schroth @Genomics_Guy]

Really great article. This notion of violence in blue states is not the reality in America.

Gun Violence Is Actually Worse in Red States. It’s Not Even Close. https://t.co/o7LyjFZouW via @politico

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Something has gone terribly wrong when Fox News can claim a tax write-off for its $787M defamation settlement, yet school teachers only get a measly $300 deduction for buying their own supplies.