I love this game. I think it’s beautiful and a great introduction to Japanese mythology.

Take away their access to higher education in other countries and see how they do. 

Maybe what Classical music needs is a “Behind the Music” but for J.S. Bach or Grieg

I’ll agree that it’s easier to get into a more modern style when you have an enthusiastic person who will give recommendations and tell great stories. And maybe what’s missing from Classical music are the Gen X “I was there when Kurt Cobain died and nobody is going to be better ever” type snobs to push a cultural…

For whatever reason people love shitty fonts and inspirational bullshit. 

I’m really enjoying this series and loved how you brought in the evolution of musical instruments and the biographical history of these composers. Getting into classical music is really no different than diving into a current music scene or discovering a recently past one. 

conservative Catholic lawmakers are more likely to work on dismantling capital punishment in the U.S., a blight on our justice system that puts us among some of the worst human rights abusers in the world.

Americans have no idea how to queue

I’d rather bring to the table that he’s not a bankable actor anymore since he’s made some terrible terrible movies as of late.

-Wicket

This is something we’re coming up against time and again with the Right: they mark the field, they push the goalposts, they decide penalties. Liberals right now are an unlucky team on a fixed game: they keep waiting for the referees to call the game fair when it was never going to be.

Ammo?

I think what bothers me the most about the Koch brothers is that unlike the political dynasty families who are willing to put their money where their mouth is and take it to the mat to debate their ideas, the Koch brothers want to win the game by paying everybody off.

I’m saying this without a shred of irony: I’m glad we live in a time in which Ivanka did not end up with Tom Brady because that definitely would have been this generation’s Reagan/Nancy. 

Potsticker House in Bridgeport, Triple Crown or Moon Palace in Chinatown, or any of the Lao Sze Chuan or MingHin locations around the city.

I could only do two seasons of Chef’s Table. I love food. I love tv about food.

almost dramatically quit the show because the mother of a crying child on Jeopardy! Kids asked the host to re-tape an episode after Trebek did nothing to console her

Thank you. 

Choosing to get a degree in something you know doesn’t pay the bills is stupid and warrants ridicule.

Right. So don’t shit on kids for getting a degree in ‘underwater basket weaving’ when they can’t even get a job weaving baskets that pays a living wage. Their choice is to go to college for the chance of a middle class life or join a labor job and hope their union isn’t legislated out of relevance.