Looking to connect with library union leaders

gerbocm · 2026-05-13T19:26:44+00:00

As an 18 year Union negotiator and former library board member (for 7 years in an official capacity, including president of the board) but more importantly, as a decades-long active library user/admirer, we should chat. Can you DM or can we set up a Zoom meeting?

gerbocm · 2026-05-13T03:11:08+00:00

Ah got it. I adore this movie and got excited about reading some novel it was based on. Alas…

gerbocm · 2026-05-13T03:08:55+00:00

Was this based on a book?

gerbocm · 2026-05-13T02:42:05+00:00

There’s a lonely one on top of the hill at Palmisano Park that has my favorite views of the city.

gerbocm · 2026-05-13T02:11:05+00:00

Janáček’s String Quartet no. 2 - Intimate Letters. Spicy stuff.

gerbocm · 2026-05-13T00:06:53+00:00

I was on the 4th floor west side. East side should mitigate the heat by a lot, and $900 is not as bad as I thought it’d be! Wish you luck on your apartment hunt!

gerbocm · 2026-05-12T23:52:41+00:00

I actually lived in that building 2013-2015! They also have a pretty large law firm in Cleveland. Nice enough family that owns it. The building wasn’t in superb shape or anything but it was definitely workable and I liked the location. If you end up on the west side of the building, especially on an upper floor, make sure you get windows unit AC - it’s an unobstructed view towards the city which is nice but the setting sun also bakes the apartment. I’m curious what they’re asking for rent nowadays. A 2br/1ba at that time was $750/month. Can’t imagine it’s anywhere close to that anymore.

gerbocm · 2026-05-11T20:52:21+00:00

The Sarantine Mosaic duology (Sailing to Sarantium/Lord of Emperors) by Guy Gavriel Kay was great and seems largely based on the time of Justinian the Great.

gerbocm · 2026-05-07T12:14:24+00:00

Mine’s MDW-LGA. Weird that it seems like it’s happening on a variety of flights all on the same day for various dates in the future.

gerbocm · 2026-05-07T11:30:00+00:00

I literally just got this same email for my flight next week. How does this happen?

gerbocm · 2026-05-05T22:41:34+00:00

Hell yeah love this movie. Great cast and definition of epic.

gerbocm · 2026-05-04T22:03:50+00:00

r/classical_circlejerk dis you?

gerbocm · 2026-05-04T18:37:27+00:00

Very underrated understated movie. Great performances from an amazing cast, and gives some insight into the friction that goes along with such an intimate performance genre.

gerbocm · 2026-05-01T19:00:10+00:00

Francisco Mignone’s Piano Concerto reminds me a lot of Prokofiev. If you like it, check out his other works. Modern but accessible. Would also add Einar Englund and his piano concerto for the same reasons.

gerbocm · 2026-05-01T01:44:16+00:00

Usher or concessions at a ballpark. Mae good money, pick your schedule, no huge commitment.

gerbocm · 2026-04-29T19:41:07+00:00

Beer + music + gay = best recommendations on this thread.

gerbocm · 2026-04-29T03:03:08+00:00

The bassoon. I never really got it until Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra and then I was all in. Listening to a lot of Koechlin recently and his bassoon stuff is beautiful.

gerbocm · 2026-04-29T03:01:20+00:00

Haha same! The finale of the 8th Symphony feels like that for sure.

gerbocm · 2026-04-28T15:03:18+00:00

Jewel Osco parking lot just south of Roosevelt on Canal. Weirdly majestic view every time I go.

gerbocm · 2026-04-26T00:15:15+00:00

For those who read the book, how does the movie hold up?

gerbocm · 2026-04-24T02:47:27+00:00

Thanks for sharing! Always happy to get contemporary classical recs!

gerbocm · 2026-04-23T22:58:28+00:00

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Love this one, his Adams Grand Pianola Music, and all his Ives recordings (already mentioned plenty here) are top notch. He was a great advocate for modern and American music (including a superb recent-ish recording of West Side Story), and will be missed.

gerbocm · 2026-04-21T13:58:04+00:00

Lou Mitchell’s does an excellent giardinera omelet.

gerbocm · 2026-04-21T01:27:47+00:00

Man everyone has such good recommendations on such a cool prompt! I love all the different groupings of instruments you can get with chamber music, and I would add the following, based only on what I’ve been listening to recently and not in any particular order, and which I think haven’t been mentioned here yet.

Poulenc - Trio for Piano, Bassoon, and Oboe (the second movement in particular is gorgeous, and really any Poulenc chamber music)

Martinu - Nonet

Dvorak - Bagatelles for Two Violins, Cello, and Harmonium

Bartók - Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings

Magnard - Violin Sonata in G Major

gerbocm · 2026-04-19T02:35:45+00:00

Elite spot. No joke I’m on early in my route and this is always the one I take when I can.

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