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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 7d

for fun, I’m going to try to post one piece of classical music that has spooky vibes for each day of October—and to not use only pieces by Chopin, Scriabin, or Ravel

Day 1: Chopin’s Nocturne in G Minor, op.15/3

G minor, op. 15, n? 3

YouTube video by Ivan Moravec - Topic

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 6h

I forgot to post this during the actual 8th of October. here it is, belatedly:

Day 8: Ravel, “Oiseaux tristes” from Miroirs

is it really about birds, or is it about those dark places in your heart that you don’t fully know

Miroirs: II. Oiseaux tristes, M. 43

YouTube video by Anna Vinnitskaya - Topic

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 18h

a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls is standing in front of a body of water .

Alt: stuffed monkey side-eye meme

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 18h

a rabbit from the secret life of pets is making a funny face and saying heh .

Alt: a rabbit from the secret life of pets is making a funny face and saying heh .

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 18h

hey don't yuck a sans-serif lover's yum!

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 19h

c'mon, y'all. no love for Crumb? a supremely spooky piece from a genuinely great composer

Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7: George Crumb, "Twin Suns," from Makrokosmos II

the piano strings are coming to get you...

Makrokosmos II: Part I: IV. Twin Suns (Gemini)

YouTube video by Laurie Hudicek - Topic

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 19h

this does feel generally right, based on the cities/regions I know. although couldn't the argument be made that St. Louis is a southern city?

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 20h

Today at 4:30!

UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 8d

How is publishing adapting to digital formats, political pressures, and a fractured information landscape?

Find out from Spangler Family Director, @jesherer.bsky.social, next week (October 8th) @flyleafbooks.bsky.social

Get your tickets now 🎟️ 👇

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Humanities in Action: The Book Reloaded: Publishing in the Era of AI, Censorship, and Disinformation - Carolina Public Humanities

CPH's Humanities in Action series is exploring revolutions this semester. This 90 minute lecture and discussion will focus on how publishing is adapting to digital formats, political pressures, and a ...

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 23h

The Varieties of Motor-Vehicular Idiocy

Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 23h

i swear some of these parents in the morning dropoff line have conspired to give me an ulcer

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 1d

Need Weekend Plans? We’re giving away 1 adult general admission ticket to Sleepy Fest in Saxapahaw, NC this Saturday 10/11—plus an advance reader copy of CUTOM MADE WOMAN, the upcoming memoir by folk legend Alice Gerrard.

Giveaway ends Wednesday @ 11:59pm. Enter here 👇
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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7: George Crumb, "Twin Suns," from Makrokosmos II

the piano strings are coming to get you...

Makrokosmos II: Part I: IV. Twin Suns (Gemini)

YouTube video by Laurie Hudicek - Topic

youtu.be

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 1d

yeah ranked lists are garbage. @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social made a great point: just do lists of *favorites*

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 1d

I live on the edge of town, with my wife and kids, basically because of $$. but if I had my druthers we'd live closer to the center of town.

so I guess I'm an aspiring single gay male....

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 1d

yeah but i'm still really confused which one of the guys in the band is named Dan?

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 1d

oh no. sending good vibes your way. stay strong!

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 2d

I saw the possessive form of the relative pronoun “that” in an online article today:

“…a term referring to a new online slang term that's origins stem from…”

looks *really* weird to me in print. has anyone else spotted this usage in the wild?

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 2d

Dan Hedaya steals the show, as he usually does

Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 2d

**life. coming to life. smdh

Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 2d

Day 6: alright, we've gotta do this one, right? no sense delaying it: the Commendatore scene from Mozart's Don Giovanni. if a statue coming to live, calling your bluff, and dragging you down to Hell isn't spooky, I don't know what is

(bonus creepiness: that wacko mask for the Comm.)

Don Giovanni ; "Don Giovanni, a cenar teco"

YouTube video by KhunKrai Siri

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 2d

this is WILD. I actually had been idly wondering if I *needed* to take Claritin and Zyrtec all the time. I have my answer now 🤧

Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 2d

simply the result of his facing the structures of US anti-Black racism. I mean, Miles's art *was* that, but it wasn't *only* that...

Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 2d

as the result of his surviving two forms of ideological absolutism? I kind of like this interpretation, but then I also am wary of reducing his experimental impetus to a coping mechanism against structural forces. I wouldn't argue, for instance, that Miles's lifelong experimental impulse was--

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 2d

posting the Ligeti "Kyrie" yesterday has spurred me to revisit his music and think about him. man, the guy survived the Holocaust and the Horthy years only to see Hungary become a client state of the Soviet Union...phew.

does it make sense to think of L's avoidance of a compositional "doctrine"--

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 2d

"to minimize the possibility of false negatives on your allergen testing, Herr Winteron, we will request that you abstain from administering to yourself any antihistamines for 3 years in advance of your scheduled test date"

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 3d

Friday afternoon, when I will be done with an allergy test and can take Claritin and Zyrtec again…gonna be a long week until then

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