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Pierre BOOlez

@amagicreflexham.bsky.social

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Composer • Teacher • Racing • NJ • Anti-anti-modernist • he/him https://composers.com/composers/max-grafe

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Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · Nov 12

Important things about me: I'm a composer and music prof living in central NJ (yes it exists and it's called pork roll don't @ me) and I love racing, cooking, and cats. Let's hang

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Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 11m

Ugh my body

A screenshot from Strava showing a 3.2 mile run that kicked OP's ass

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 6h

What is that on K$H's head

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 1d

One of my most deeply held beliefs is you should need something between a regular license and a CDL to drive an SUV

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Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 1d

It's me, the Donald Fagen of Antifa

Hollywood Steve Huey @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social · 2d

Steely Dan, unlike antifa, has ringleaders

Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 2d

Antifa, like Steely Dan, is not really a group.

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 1d

What are we even doing here man. They lie about literally everything. They've been doing it for over a decade. What is there to be "skeptical" about

Skeptical judges increasingly question administration’s veracity

Judges have increasingly shown exasperation with Trump administration court tactics. The White House has shot back, raising tensions to previously unseen levels.

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Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe it was actually Taylor

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 2d

Would genuinely rather root through a dumpster

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 2d

This 'The Bear'-esque dining experience puts you in the center of the kitchen chaos

At Speakeasy Society's 'Family Meal,' curse words are thrown, recipes are slandered and it all makes for fun, irresistible drama.

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Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 2d

When your wife is a stone cold badass

A text message that reads "FYI I may need to have dinner with the Lutheran bishop of Angola on Saturday"

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 2d

You know this isn't the site where people whose entire personality is running cover for Elon Musk go right?

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Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 2d

Dr. Seuss's new series of adult-oriented novels opens with the gritty mob thriller Sneetches Get Steetches

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 2d

Comrade...uh...the Pope?

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry writers but nobody is ever beating Philo and Gunge for character names

Philo and Gunge, two rat-like creatures from the Jim Henson TV show Fraggle Rock

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 2d

Disappointing lack of Paul Simon in these replies

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Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 2d

Okay but this has to be bait right

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Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 2d

From your lips to God's ears man

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 3d

Alternatively, Shawangunk

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 3d

Houston

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I'm definitely being hyperbolic, but also the former is ostensibly supposed to be protecting people from the latter

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 3d

I'm a pretty imaginative guy, and I can't imagine a more depressing fate than being so taken in by a narrative that knowledge is a commodity and an education is only valuable insofar as it serves the interests of capital that you think there's such thing as a "useless degree"

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 3d

Free him

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 3d

You mean to tell me David Frum is untrustworthy? The hell you say

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 3d

"They" be honest, it's Will Riker

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Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 3d

It's pretty much my Roman Empire

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 3d

We should be so much the poorer for it

Pierre BOOlez @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 3d

Not so much a time thing as an audience thing but Pierre Boulez is responsible for the lyrics to You Can Call Me Al

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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