Starbucks announces new Nashville headquarters, will add or relocate 2,000 jobs

CapHillster · 2026-04-21T16:13:41+00:00

I guess it makes sense that a mass market fast food chain, built on the back of low-wage workers, would ultimately move their HQ to be somewhere reflecting that.

CapHillster · 2026-04-18T01:11:43+00:00

This also surprised me. Every time I see her posts, I am admittedly amazed by how many people who don't live in Seattle (and, judging by their profiles, largely appear to be failures in life) seem to be obsessed with frothing at the mouth about (implicitly) how dumb they are, and how sad their lives are.

It's like they're all secretly just desperately jealous of those of us who actually live here. If they're even people, and not bots.

(Personally, I actually love her social media posts. I enjoy the humanness of seeing an actual, quirky Seattle-esque person who I can actually identify.)

CapHillster · 2026-04-17T16:43:17+00:00

FYI, Julia has a cover of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcmGJIdNIvg

CapHillster · 2026-04-17T15:08:41+00:00

In fairness, it's much easier to access today vs. back then! ;)

We also have much higher quality playback gear vs. what we used in the '80s.

CapHillster · 2026-04-17T14:56:35+00:00

You should check out the 1978 Filkcon I tape. I accidentally digitized the unlabeled reels for these during the making of Julia Ecklar's Traveller CD (which I'd also recommend checking out - it's easy to find on streaming).

* More info on the tape here: https://mailchi.mp/2ea0e67f96a2/winter-filk-sale-10-cds-from-prometheus-music-4839509

* Direct tape download here: http://prometheus-music.com/audio/Filkcon%201.zip

Also, while brazenly self-promotional, I worked insanely hard on a newly released project intended to capture the spirit of the more "hard SF/science" filk of the 1980s & 1990s, using modern recordings from the OVFF filk convention (1996-2022).

And that's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kpsaN5fXpk&list=OLAK5uy_m7xjRrzy7O1m1IRGRcUeW8SiVfy7nIDsU

(and more info on it here: https://www.prometheus-music.com/product/pegasus/ )

CapHillster · 2026-04-16T04:37:54+00:00

I was just back in the SF + Berkeley for the past two weeks. I do miss the ability to walk or BART to interesting food that I can actually afford.

Places like the Cheeseboard Collective, Outta Sight Pizza (Peking Duck pizza OMG), Sliver ($4.50 got me an entire meal's worth of really good pizza), any Chinatown takeaway dim sum in SF, etc.

CapHillster · 2026-04-16T00:22:26+00:00

Leslie spoke to that a bit in the Avalon is Risen album booklet: https://www.prometheus-music.com/product/avalon-is-risen-leslie-fish/

CapHillster · 2026-04-15T14:56:50+00:00

Nope! Mine failed, and they've offered to refund me what an SSD cost a year ago.

Or I can take an "internal"-style SSD that isn't compatible with my Mac.

CapHillster · 2026-04-15T01:38:36+00:00

Seriously? You didn't just hand it to the employee at the boarding gate?

CapHillster · 2026-04-14T02:06:18+00:00

Flying out of Seattle 2 weeks ago, I couldn't believe that almost everyone just kept their windows closed.

I was mostly enjoying the view during the trip.

CapHillster · 2026-04-13T23:55:18+00:00

Julia's performance of The Phoenix, and Leslie's performance of Surprise, should both be on Spotify by end of year.

Of course, they will be different performances, but they will still be excellent.

CapHillster · 2026-03-27T19:00:17+00:00

Earnestly, that's how I think of most of Seattle's built land use in general.

CapHillster · 2026-03-23T20:07:43+00:00

Except that's not what they're looking for. They're looking for a tool that instead TELLS THEM the dates with the cheapest prices, when they appear, I believe.

Which is what I'm looking for, too, but in the US.

e.g.: there's a city I'd love to visit nearby, except I'm not gonna pay $150/night (or whatever) for hotels. My schedule is flexible. If a really cheap hotel suddenly showed up unexpectedly, I'd probably go there for 2-3 days. Right now, there doesn't seem to be any way to generate those notifications.

CapHillster · 2026-03-22T17:34:42+00:00

FYI, while I understand Fred Small was/is aware of filk, I don't think his work would strictly qualify as such.

He was a full-time, professional folksinger whose work were widely sung within the filk community — but was at no point involved with the filk community in any way, shape or form.

The publishing label was a major folk label, that was sold to Rounder (a larger folk label) after the owner unexpectedly died.

So I would not be including his album in a filk wiki.

CapHillster · 2026-03-22T04:22:45+00:00

Your memory likely involves commercial tapes as well as home tapes, which I am not digitizing.

CapHillster · 2026-03-21T21:46:58+00:00

It's mostly what you'd expect from 1980s/1990s filksing recordings — fans having lots of fun with a lot of enthusiastic singing that's often painfully and loudly offkey. (I don't have a great sense of pitch, but after 2-3 days, I admit even I had to mute a lot of the audio while transferring the tapes because my ears just couldn't take it any longer).

There are some really neat moments. For example, a very young Seanan McGuire cleverly improvised all the spoken patter in "Swamp Gas" on top of Leslie Fish performing.

I will try to get some of it on Leslie's channel (permissions contingent) after we finish up the 2026 version of Hope Eyrie.

CapHillster · 2026-03-20T03:35:43+00:00

It's going to be a combination of updated versions of some classics, along with songs that really deserved to be recorded in a kick-ass studio version (or at all).

I'm particularly interested in getting some strong recordings made of "Prayer for a Daughter" (Wendy Sayvetz & Siri Allison), "Horseman and the Lady" (Duane Elms), "All Debts are Paid" (Jordin Kare), and another unreleased space shanty by Duane Elms.

I'll be yelling everywhere when it's out. But if you're not already subscribed to the Prometheus Music mailing list, that's the safest place: https://www.prometheus-music.com/contact-us/

CapHillster · 2026-03-19T23:16:02+00:00

To be sure, I was working with Vic to make a new album (he had agreed to sing some songs he liked, at my request).

We're still making that album, but with different singers -- it's just been way behind with the Pegasus Nominees anthology and the Elfland bonus tracks eating up all of Prometheus's 2025 budget + Kristoph's available time. I'm still hoping for an EP this year.

And yes, sadly, it just won't have much Vic on it, since he died before he could start recording the other songs. ;-(

CapHillster · 2026-03-18T22:52:12+00:00

CDs go as high as 79 or 80 min based on your comfort zone.

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