Michael N
@michaeln1756.bsky.social
Dad of 3, husband, lawyer (employment/insurance). I love reading (esp literature and history), and music (classical and jazz). Devotee of Bach, Shakespeare, Miles Davis, Tolstoy, Patrick O’Brian, walking afternoons and mornings, and assorted other things
I’ve done that, but rarely, rarely. The counterargument needs to be airtight. Otherwise, I’d just be ready to address it at the hearing if the judge brings it up.
January 17, 2026 at 1:07 PM
I’ve done that, but rarely, rarely. The counterargument needs to be airtight. Otherwise, I’d just be ready to address it at the hearing if the judge brings it up.
Explains the empty pair of shoes I saw on the sidewalk.
September 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Explains the empty pair of shoes I saw on the sidewalk.
No argument! But I actually came here to say how delighted I am to see you’ve recorded the early John Le Carre oeuvre. I know the Smiley series very well. I just finished listening to Tinker Tailor (wonderful), and am looking forward to listening to the rest of the series!
June 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
No argument! But I actually came here to say how delighted I am to see you’ve recorded the early John Le Carre oeuvre. I know the Smiley series very well. I just finished listening to Tinker Tailor (wonderful), and am looking forward to listening to the rest of the series!
Boom! Congratulations 🎉🍾
April 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Boom! Congratulations 🎉🍾
No argument on Bach. The Art of Fugue, Well Tempered Clavier and St. Matthew Passion will always be the high point of artistic and spiritual achievement to me.
But I still deeply love Chopin, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler. And Machaut, Josquin, Ockeghem and Monteverdi for that matter
But I still deeply love Chopin, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler. And Machaut, Josquin, Ockeghem and Monteverdi for that matter
April 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
No argument on Bach. The Art of Fugue, Well Tempered Clavier and St. Matthew Passion will always be the high point of artistic and spiritual achievement to me.
But I still deeply love Chopin, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler. And Machaut, Josquin, Ockeghem and Monteverdi for that matter
But I still deeply love Chopin, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler. And Machaut, Josquin, Ockeghem and Monteverdi for that matter
I see. So are you more of a Brahms/Schumann fan, or is even that too much? When I was young, I worked at a cafe/classical CD shop where the owner found anything post-Mozart distasteful, and preferred if the PA system was limited to baroque. I got a talking-to for putting Brahms on. 😂
April 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I see. So are you more of a Brahms/Schumann fan, or is even that too much? When I was young, I worked at a cafe/classical CD shop where the owner found anything post-Mozart distasteful, and preferred if the PA system was limited to baroque. I got a talking-to for putting Brahms on. 😂
Which part is not your thing? Mahler, or Rattle, or the 4th in particular?
April 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Which part is not your thing? Mahler, or Rattle, or the 4th in particular?
Interesting, but who’s ever heard of something like that. It’s like we’d be exercising a kind of power by sending aid — but it wouldn’t be a hard kind of power, it would be *not* hard power. I don’t know what word I’m looking for.
March 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Interesting, but who’s ever heard of something like that. It’s like we’d be exercising a kind of power by sending aid — but it wouldn’t be a hard kind of power, it would be *not* hard power. I don’t know what word I’m looking for.
They are talking to one guy — one guy who cannot believe his own luck.
a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with his hands folded
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with his hands folded
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March 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
They are talking to one guy — one guy who cannot believe his own luck.
I’ve just started it too. It’s like someone resurrected Philip K. Dick and made him write a show for Apple TV. Impressive.
February 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I’ve just started it too. It’s like someone resurrected Philip K. Dick and made him write a show for Apple TV. Impressive.
lol. No argument there.
Only thing I have to say is I’ve grown to like the current crop of near beers. Really very much improved.
Only thing I have to say is I’ve grown to like the current crop of near beers. Really very much improved.
February 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
lol. No argument there.
Only thing I have to say is I’ve grown to like the current crop of near beers. Really very much improved.
Only thing I have to say is I’ve grown to like the current crop of near beers. Really very much improved.
First of all, NA beers have gotten a lot better. Second, a good mocktail, something lemony, spiced with ginger, mint, or jalapeño (or all three), can actually be independently good.
February 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
First of all, NA beers have gotten a lot better. Second, a good mocktail, something lemony, spiced with ginger, mint, or jalapeño (or all three), can actually be independently good.
Yeesh. Just glad no one died. Enough airplane accidents.
February 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Yeesh. Just glad no one died. Enough airplane accidents.
Ketamine makes you look like a fallen hobbit?
February 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Ketamine makes you look like a fallen hobbit?
Patrick Tull was a magnificent narrator. Try his narration of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series (ie, Master and Commander, and the 19 books that followed). So good.
February 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Patrick Tull was a magnificent narrator. Try his narration of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series (ie, Master and Commander, and the 19 books that followed). So good.
This is strange because Schiller’s poem contains the universalist line “All people become brothers,” and because Beethoven himself, (an enlightenment era liberal) hated autocracy, rejected Napoleon when he had himself crowned emperor, and would no doubt have despised modern fascism.
February 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is strange because Schiller’s poem contains the universalist line “All people become brothers,” and because Beethoven himself, (an enlightenment era liberal) hated autocracy, rejected Napoleon when he had himself crowned emperor, and would no doubt have despised modern fascism.
I find I have to gently prod the eggs with my finger from time to time to gauge their doneness when I poach. Yes the water is boiling, but perfect eggs are worth any discomfort.
February 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I find I have to gently prod the eggs with my finger from time to time to gauge their doneness when I poach. Yes the water is boiling, but perfect eggs are worth any discomfort.
That and invading Russia.
Had Roosevelt been capable of willing Hitler to do anything it would have been to declare war on the US. Completely solved his strategic and political problem by doing that.
Had Roosevelt been capable of willing Hitler to do anything it would have been to declare war on the US. Completely solved his strategic and political problem by doing that.
February 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
That and invading Russia.
Had Roosevelt been capable of willing Hitler to do anything it would have been to declare war on the US. Completely solved his strategic and political problem by doing that.
Had Roosevelt been capable of willing Hitler to do anything it would have been to declare war on the US. Completely solved his strategic and political problem by doing that.
I agree that’s insane. But in the hierarchy of insane things happening right now, that’s barely in the top 50%.
February 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I agree that’s insane. But in the hierarchy of insane things happening right now, that’s barely in the top 50%.
I guessed 35 before checking just now. Huh.
February 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I guessed 35 before checking just now. Huh.
He’s very good. Certainly gloomy. Shostakovich on an overcast day.
January 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
He’s very good. Certainly gloomy. Shostakovich on an overcast day.
How do you feel about Mieczysław Weinberg?
January 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
How do you feel about Mieczysław Weinberg?
Happy 269th. “Mozart is perhaps the most challenging composer of all to capture in words because his work is so intimately bound up in what music can do that is unlike what words can do. Music . . . was his native language. And beauty also largely beggars language.” — Jan Swafford
January 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Happy 269th. “Mozart is perhaps the most challenging composer of all to capture in words because his work is so intimately bound up in what music can do that is unlike what words can do. Music . . . was his native language. And beauty also largely beggars language.” — Jan Swafford