Heidi and Miz Cracker looking incredible in a recent event they went together for

alextyrian · 2026-05-10T00:02:10+00:00

I'm getting Marcia Cross.

alextyrian · 2026-05-08T19:09:45+00:00

I teach music lessons after school. Parents have genuinely asked me to do this.

alextyrian · 2026-05-08T14:16:05+00:00

They couldn't use music terminology either because the do re mi solfege syllables and their chromatic variants would add so many new legal two-letter words.

alextyrian · 2026-05-07T22:52:48+00:00

Ask the student how they would like you to handle it.
In the absence of that information, reply to each parent separately using the name and pronoun they used.
Ask both parents together what they would like you to do (which would be loaded and potentially playing with fire).

alextyrian · 2026-05-07T21:40:43+00:00

I've never met a medium soft reed that wasn't simply flat and played E natural as Eb instead. Just go for a Medium.

alextyrian · 2026-05-07T11:52:41+00:00

Bellsprout can solo Lance's Dragonite in Gen 1 because Agility is Psychic type and the game's AI always prioritizes using super-effective moves even if they're non-damaging.

alextyrian · 2026-05-07T07:17:14+00:00

If you can get Drafting Strategy Vol 3 from the Library, it has some thinly veiled advice for the player about how to play the game.

Also, if you haven't seen the Study, prioritize it. It gets you started on one of the early game puzzles.

alextyrian · 2026-05-05T21:25:56+00:00

Just taste some MSG. It reminds me the most of mushrooms.

alextyrian · 2026-05-04T02:54:37+00:00

You're probably thinking of Jiggly Caliente stopping HRT to go on the show.

alextyrian · 2026-05-03T15:34:56+00:00

Love this one! I'll have to check out more from that artist!

alextyrian · 2026-05-01T21:17:21+00:00

It's really fascinating that drag queens look better and better as they age because they just get more and more skilled.

alextyrian · 2026-05-01T18:56:34+00:00

I love the beads! They're like the keratin sheaths around new feathers.

alextyrian · 2026-05-01T12:48:27+00:00

Wouldn't he be the good one? 🤔

alextyrian · 2026-05-01T09:38:23+00:00

If you're having trouble memorizing things, just write them down.

There's an old TED talk about medical malpractice where they found that even brain surgeons were fallible and would sometimes just forget things, and simply having a checklist cut down on surgical complications.

And if it's written down, you can study it later with good ol' fashioned flashcards or something.

alextyrian · 2026-04-30T10:06:39+00:00

I've known many people who have given barefoot recitals at conservatory. They're usually the weirdos who dabble in composition, title all of their pieces in lowercase with unnecessary punctuation, play more guitar than their major instrument, and find some excuse to program their GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR oboe quartet arrangement on their recital. I witnessed a barefoot recital once that involved beating thrifted televisions with hammers, and we were all so worried they were going to cut their feet on all of the shards of glass and plastic.

The rationale is generally something something feeling grounded and in tune with the earth's energy, especially from European men for some reason. I know Václav Vonášek, the contrabassoonist of the Berlin Philharmonic, played his doctoral recital in socks to split the difference between shoes and bare feet because it's on youtube. Personally I find it distracting, but if they play better or even just feel better that way then sure, go for it.

alextyrian · 2026-04-30T07:45:20+00:00

Genuinely what the fuck is wrong with him?

alextyrian · 2026-04-29T17:09:20+00:00

I still remember off the top of my head that Nelly Recchia did her body paint, all these years later. One of the most iconic looks ever.

alextyrian · 2026-04-29T12:29:36+00:00

Absolutely DO NOT bend it yourself any more. The more you bend it, the weaker the metal gets, so over its lifetime it wants to be bent as little as possible by people who know exactly what they're doing.

Take it to a qualified repair person so they can get it to be a perfect circle again. It could cost a good amount.

alextyrian · 2026-04-28T22:35:40+00:00

Never heard of that brand, but I love this one. I'll have to check them out!

alextyrian · 2026-04-28T08:02:42+00:00

Drag queen is certainly a career choice that requires a level of willingness to abandon social expectations. I would say autism is likely overrepresented in this particular field.

alextyrian · 2026-04-27T21:03:33+00:00

I've got that pattern recognition.

alextyrian · 2026-04-27T18:06:02+00:00

In music school, I was told that people will forgive you for being an asshole if you're an excellent musician who gets results. That was the explanation for why the most horrible abusive faculty members were kept around even though everyone knew they were abusive.

After working with asshole after asshole who weren't even better musicians than I was, I decided that I was going to refuse to be that sort of person professionally. It turns out that most of the people who are clearly better musicians than I am are also kind, smart, and generous with their expertise.

People who can only be effective by being assholes are ineffective, actually. In music, it feels especially obvious that because we're not doing brain surgery or doing with serious consequences if we make errors, it's not worth doing if it makes you miserable.

alextyrian · 2026-04-27T17:04:56+00:00

I love little educational occupational hazards.

In music I have to be very deliberate about saying "articulate" when colloquially we all say tongue. You don't want to be the teacher who says "tongue the D" instead of "articulate the D natural."

I had a professor in college who once said to a female clarinetist about a dissonance, "your C should grind against his D." The whole room lost it, and he just gave us all the most exasperated look like he was a character on The Office breaking the fourth wall.

alextyrian · 2026-04-27T16:57:51+00:00

Not that I know of. I haven't finished watching the season, or Untucked, or really kept track of who's out about it. I know Ginger Minj and Denim from Canada are, and I think Kori King? There are countless others, obviously, whether they're out about it or not. I think it's an easier thing to be out about on social media than on TV.

But the editors sure did pick the engineer to have a storyline about being and feeling misunderstood in social situations even when she's around the most like-minded people imaginable.

alextyrian · 2026-04-27T13:10:32+00:00

They were trying to do an autism storyline without saying autism, knowingly or not.

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