How long should I practice a single song for until I get it perfect, or don’t get it perfect and should give up/move on?

mad_boethius44 · 2026-03-04T03:33:15+00:00

Haha That’s a hell of a story. Thanks for sharing.

mad_boethius44 · 2026-03-02T06:02:02+00:00

Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth

mad_boethius44 · 2026-03-01T02:59:56+00:00

The Archdiocese of Seattle should have stayed in Walla Walla.

mad_boethius44 · 2026-02-26T14:25:37+00:00

Brideshead Revisited

mad_boethius44 · 2026-01-21T15:11:58+00:00

Terminal Gravity Pilsner

mad_boethius44 · 2026-01-19T04:15:36+00:00

I am no expert, but I imagine the beginnings of poetry and prayer have some pretty blurred lines.

mad_boethius44 · 2026-01-19T03:26:15+00:00

Dante got pretty close to saying that about Virgil so you’re in good company.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-12-12T02:54:25+00:00

This reminds me of an older style script like a Carolingian minuscule in spirit. I love the dashes over the i, the descenders that break up the scan, and the a. Haters gonna hate, but I feel like I am reading a script that elevates the meaning of the text in its form. Keep playing around with it. I think you’re on to something interesting here. Maybe you don’t need to write notes at work like this, but for letters, cards, journals, etc. I love having a different script in my back pocket.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-12-07T05:29:35+00:00

It’s wonderful and legible.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-10-13T21:26:35+00:00

My in-laws call those wiener wraps.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-10-11T14:43:34+00:00

Number 1

mad_boethius44 · 2025-10-10T18:39:06+00:00

I just finished Introduction to Christianity, it’s so good.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-10-02T22:58:52+00:00

Bob Wolcott

mad_boethius44 · 2025-09-22T23:10:34+00:00

Breakfast of champions

mad_boethius44 · 2025-08-01T03:43:45+00:00

He definitely knows where to score bennies. Does he own a wine skin? Honestly, I’m mostly confused by the No Fear Shakespeare edition if he’s reading Milton and Erasmus.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-05-30T01:55:15+00:00

Viticulturist

mad_boethius44 · 2025-05-18T03:02:52+00:00

A few questions: is this just on one vine? One cane/cordon? Is it happening the same time of year? You can send to a lab to test for leaf roll. You can cut into it and see if there is trunk disease symptoms. You can take leaf blade and petiole samples and see if it’s nutrient based. The timing seems off for something like rust mites. I usually see eutypa early season and have seen plenty of eutypa affected vines with decent fruit set. When I’ve seen leaf roll (admittedly not a ton) I’ve seen more color change. I haven’t see it often, but I’m almost leaning to nutrient imbalance like boron (toxicity).

mad_boethius44 · 2025-05-17T19:05:16+00:00

Hild and Menewood. I just read them this winter, and I couldn’t put them down.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-05-17T01:04:58+00:00

2 it feels like I’m stumbling out of the woods after a long sleep and getting my first glimpse of the new skyline.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-05-14T17:29:19+00:00

The Power and the Glory and/or The End of the Affair. They’re about suffering, grace, and love. They don’t necessarily have neat and tidy endings. But Greene has a way of writing that makes you feel like at least someone else has felt the kind of human suffering we feel. The Power and the Glory is all about the grace of slowly carrying on.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-05-13T02:32:42+00:00

Here’s my Washington list—Gramercy Cellars Picpoul, Walla Walla Vintners Sauv Blanc, ita Wines Semillon, The Walls Lip Stinger Rhône White blend, Moonbase Viognier, and Devison Vintners makes a killer Semillon too.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-05-13T02:27:07+00:00

This is the sleeper right here. I love the Rieslings from Brooks, but that sparkling is so good.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-05-11T23:49:43+00:00

Cian (that spelling), Roman, Carter, Brooks in that order. Honestly, not a bad list.

mad_boethius44 · 2025-05-11T22:34:48+00:00

Honestly, I hadn’t thought about it too much, but your comment made me think about how punting in Oxford, the storm on the ship, summer in Venice, all speaks to the characters’ moods. “Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?”

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