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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 6h

For question 2, I wonder who, if anyone, was thinking/writing of musicals in the Great Parade of Musical Theater History way commonly accepted now. Maybe Gilbert Seldes? So many of the MTH surveys/essays I’ve read are post-Golden Age, when The Canon was coalescing.

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 4d

I must have been about 8 when I heard “Something Sort of Grandish” on the radio; it took a while for my mother to find it on record, with a detour through Brigadoon. (Scottish? Irish? Same difference to my Jewish mom.)

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 5d

“Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

The Addams family: Gomez, Fester, Lurch, Grandmama, Wednesday, Morticia, and Pugsley.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 5d

After being told for decades that reparations are a non-starter, Trump is about to give himself $230 million because our government tried to apply the law to him.

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 5d

This is Mad King Supreme, my friend David Prum’s character. The costume is designed by Doug Fitch. Feel free to spread the image around. Re-caption. Laugh in the face of horror.

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 5d

TEAR DOWN THAT EAST WING OR I’LL FLY MY POOPBOMBER OVER YOUR MOTHER’S BURTHDAY BARBECUE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

An image of the Mad King Supreme: an orange-faced lunatic in a golden cape, blue suit, red tie, high orange wig filled with horrifying fake human mouths, and a huge sequined codpiece. He holds a golden golf club and his mouth is wide open, as always.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 7d

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 8d

Just (re-)discovered on Spotify the arrangement of Jacques Brel's "The Desperate Ones" I made decades ago for the Harvard Din and Tonics. I think it holds up nicely. open.spotify.com/track/1Gyh3Y...

The Desperate Ones

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 9d

David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 10d

With Mad King Supreme at Boston No Kings!

A closeup of Mad King Supreme. We can see the many human mouths in his wig (or are they the voices in his head?)

Mad King Supreme with an admirer holding a poster of a frog in the style of the famous Obama Hope poster; the caption reads HOP.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 11d

This is TODAY!

Fenway Health, MA’s “leader in trans care,” without any change of law or direct requirement, has made the choice to abandon trans kids to a sudden discontinuation of care.

We need to see folks out there protesting this cowardly decision today - show up for trans kids, Boston!

Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 11d

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 14d

Which would be orange, in my universe.

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 15d

“Corporate has some notes.”

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 17d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Tiger Elephant Giraffe Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18d

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 27d

Can anyone recommend Bluesky threads/folx who are discussing AI/LLM in music? I’m following a lot of threads and reading a lot of articles but it’s all prose or visual arts. I know it must be out there but I’m not finding it. Thanks!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27d

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.

Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 27d

Who has watched the 24 hour live stream so far that the house Dems are doing on the shutdown?????

This should be the biggest story right now and literally 45 people are watching
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBY...

Stop the Republican Shutdown PT.2

YouTube video by Rep. Jeffries

www.youtube.com

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 28d

www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 28d

“. . . but what they’re doing is training people to explain away the inconsistencies of Large Language Models, and to assume individual responsibility for what is an innate flaw in how large language models work.”

David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · 28d

“Model companies have successfully convinced everybody that the issue is that users are prompting the models wrong, and that people need to be “trained to use AI,” . . . (Continues, with link)

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · Sep 21

“Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack, a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in”

Happy birthday Leonard Cohen. His memory is a blessing, no “may” about it.

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · Sep 20

I just learned the phrase “kitsch Christianity” and will be deploying it in future. Also (unrelated, I suppose): is the product of generative AI kitsch? (See the definition in the linked article.)

Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · Sep 20

"MAGA Christianity is not Christianity in any meaningful sense. It is kitsch Christianity: emotionally loaded symbols stripped of theological depth and deployed as an anxiety management system."
cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/lost-in-th...

Lost In the Kingdom of Kitsch

Kitsch, addiction, and the emotional architecture of MAGA

cybelecanterel.substack.com

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Sep 15

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · Sep 14

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

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David Reiffel @reiffelmusic.bsky.social · Sep 14

Read this just as I was enjoying my post-vaccination coffee and muffin reward. Similarly in prep for increased exposure to the public (hosting a fundraiser escape room next weekend). Get your boosters, folks!

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