Isaac Albeniz 🇨🇦
@pardosa.bsky.social
Books. Writing. Chess. Classical Guitar. Science. Spiders. Degrees in music and science. 🎼🔬 Lifelong reader. 🖖🏻
🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP! 🇨🇦
“Beware of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss.”
- Robert Heinlein
🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP! 🇨🇦
“Beware of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss.”
- Robert Heinlein
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Isaac Albeniz 🇨🇦
@pardosa.bsky.social
· Mar 2
Me and a classmate visiting the pyramids in Egypt. We were both high school students at Cairo American College, in the Cairo suburb Maadi, at the time. I graduated from there the following June.
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#acrylics #acrylicart #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #painter #blueskyartshow #artistonbluesky #art #artist #expressionismart
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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About a quarter of the way through this book I got for Christmas and really enjoying it.
December 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
About a quarter of the way through this book I got for Christmas and really enjoying it.
One of my favorite moments in the original Star Trek is at the beginning of “Mirrior, Mirror,” when Kirk is negotiating with the pacifist Halkan council for their dilithium crystals.
Councillor: “Captain, you do have the might to force the crystals from us.”
Kirk: “But we won’t. Consider that.”🖖🏻
Councillor: “Captain, you do have the might to force the crystals from us.”
Kirk: “But we won’t. Consider that.”🖖🏻
December 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
One of my favorite moments in the original Star Trek is at the beginning of “Mirrior, Mirror,” when Kirk is negotiating with the pacifist Halkan council for their dilithium crystals.
Councillor: “Captain, you do have the might to force the crystals from us.”
Kirk: “But we won’t. Consider that.”🖖🏻
Councillor: “Captain, you do have the might to force the crystals from us.”
Kirk: “But we won’t. Consider that.”🖖🏻
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#abstractart #abstract #art #artist
#abstractexpressionism #painter
#blueskyartshow #artistombluesky
#acrylics #acrylicart #acryliconcanvas
#abstractexpressionism #painter
#blueskyartshow #artistombluesky
#acrylics #acrylicart #acryliconcanvas
December 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Here’s the beginning of a beautiful piece for guitar, “Desde el Alma” by Eduardo Diaz.
Enjoy! 🎧
Enjoy! 🎧
December 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Here’s the beginning of a beautiful piece for guitar, “Desde el Alma” by Eduardo Diaz.
Enjoy! 🎧
Enjoy! 🎧
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Thousands of members of the Canadian Armed Forces are spending Christmas away from home – standing on guard for our freedoms, and those of our allies.
In this increasingly dangerous and divided world, we are ever more grateful for your service and sacrifice. Merry Christmas.
In this increasingly dangerous and divided world, we are ever more grateful for your service and sacrifice. Merry Christmas.
December 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Thousands of members of the Canadian Armed Forces are spending Christmas away from home – standing on guard for our freedoms, and those of our allies.
In this increasingly dangerous and divided world, we are ever more grateful for your service and sacrifice. Merry Christmas.
In this increasingly dangerous and divided world, we are ever more grateful for your service and sacrifice. Merry Christmas.
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William Hays (American, b.1956)
"Nightfall Snowfall," n.d.
8-color linocut print
9 x 12 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Nightfall Snowfall," n.d.
8-color linocut print
9 x 12 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
William Hays (American, b.1956)
"Nightfall Snowfall," n.d.
8-color linocut print
9 x 12 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Nightfall Snowfall," n.d.
8-color linocut print
9 x 12 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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It’s a cold, snowy day here in Alberta. Windchill in the -30s C. 🥶. Yesterday I was out for two hours snow blowing the driveway, but overnight drifting snow filled parts of it back in! Will have to do it again in a couple of days.
A good old fashioned Canadian winter!
A good old fashioned Canadian winter!
December 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It’s a cold, snowy day here in Alberta. Windchill in the -30s C. 🥶. Yesterday I was out for two hours snow blowing the driveway, but overnight drifting snow filled parts of it back in! Will have to do it again in a couple of days.
A good old fashioned Canadian winter!
A good old fashioned Canadian winter!
I greatly enjoyed listening to this guitar recital by Carles Trepat. So relaxing; neither loud, nor super fast, nor strident. Just quiet, immensely satisfying virtuosity from a sensitive, expressive musician.
CARLES TREPAT - Teatro Colón A Coruña 2014
YouTube video by Carles Trepat
m.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I greatly enjoyed listening to this guitar recital by Carles Trepat. So relaxing; neither loud, nor super fast, nor strident. Just quiet, immensely satisfying virtuosity from a sensitive, expressive musician.
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The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
“The purpose of art is contemplation for its own sake.”
- Ayn Rand
- Ayn Rand
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“The purpose of art is contemplation for its own sake.”
- Ayn Rand
- Ayn Rand
The 3rd movement of “La Catedral” by Augustin Barrios Mangore is often played way too fast (in my opinion) by classical guitarists, as if it’s a race. Yet, it is marked “Allegro Solemne.”
This performance by Tariq Harb reveals subtleties in the piece that I feel faster tempos tend to obscure.
This performance by Tariq Harb reveals subtleties in the piece that I feel faster tempos tend to obscure.
Barrios: La Catedral, 3rd movement "Allegro Solemne" - Tariq Harb, Guitar
YouTube video by Tariq Harb
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December 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The 3rd movement of “La Catedral” by Augustin Barrios Mangore is often played way too fast (in my opinion) by classical guitarists, as if it’s a race. Yet, it is marked “Allegro Solemne.”
This performance by Tariq Harb reveals subtleties in the piece that I feel faster tempos tend to obscure.
This performance by Tariq Harb reveals subtleties in the piece that I feel faster tempos tend to obscure.
Time for a cuppa.
Tea me up, Scotty! 🖖🏻
Tea me up, Scotty! 🖖🏻
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Time for a cuppa.
Tea me up, Scotty! 🖖🏻
Tea me up, Scotty! 🖖🏻
Which is correct?
“twenty-eight,” “twentyeight,” or “twenty eight”
“twenty-eight,” “twentyeight,” or “twenty eight”
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Which is correct?
“twenty-eight,” “twentyeight,” or “twenty eight”
“twenty-eight,” “twentyeight,” or “twenty eight”
Muting the words c@pitalism and soci@lism (replace @ with a) really cleaned up my feed! Fewer annoying political tracts showing up now.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Muting the words c@pitalism and soci@lism (replace @ with a) really cleaned up my feed! Fewer annoying political tracts showing up now.
My greenbottle blue tarantula today.
“Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens”
“Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens”
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
My greenbottle blue tarantula today.
“Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens”
“Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens”
One of my tarantulas molted today. “Brachypelma auratum”
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
One of my tarantulas molted today. “Brachypelma auratum”
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Maybe It Is 1938 Again—Just Worse
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Books of the 80s
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Books of the 80s
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Just finished reading “The Widow” by John Grisham. A real page-turner. Couldn’t put it down. 👍
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Just finished reading “The Widow” by John Grisham. A real page-turner. Couldn’t put it down. 👍
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Despicable
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Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
Despicable
The bully-in-chief is targeting women in the White House press corps
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Despicable
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
A 1943 zinc-coated steel penny made to save copper during WW2. Worth a few dollars today, from what I could find out. A nice piece of history.
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 AM
A 1943 zinc-coated steel penny made to save copper during WW2. Worth a few dollars today, from what I could find out. A nice piece of history.
Regarding classical guitar right hand technique, any problems I’ve had with pimami arpeggios and the pami tremolo, especially at higher tempos, results from tension in the right little finger. This tension inhibits the easy return of the “a” finger to the string for another cycle.
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Regarding classical guitar right hand technique, any problems I’ve had with pimami arpeggios and the pami tremolo, especially at higher tempos, results from tension in the right little finger. This tension inhibits the easy return of the “a” finger to the string for another cycle.
This is one of the best performances of Francisco Tarrega’s “Estudio Brilliante” I’ve ever heard, played by one of my favorite guitarists, Irina Kulikova. This is a very difficult piece, but she plays it flawlessly. Enjoy!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxO...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxO...
Estudio Brillante by F.Tárrega with a dog
YouTube video by Irina Kulikova
m.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
This is one of the best performances of Francisco Tarrega’s “Estudio Brilliante” I’ve ever heard, played by one of my favorite guitarists, Irina Kulikova. This is a very difficult piece, but she plays it flawlessly. Enjoy!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxO...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxO...