Vance Maverick

Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 05:21 UTC

Hugh Kenner pointed out that he looked different in each of the relatively few published photos (iirc, the glasses are always wire rims but not always present)

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:47 UTC

I’m ashamed to say I can think of two racist interpretations!

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:20 UTC

Headline says it's "of the 21st century". I would expect opinion about the best of the last 24 years to be very diverse! (Exception for writers, who seem to include their own work in the best. ;-))

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:23 UTC

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:14 UTC

So the funny screenshots are fake?

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

Would you expect to have read more? Not sure why

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:50 UTC

So I’ll be going partly to think about this and to see if my response is really as cleanly distinct from the frightening kinds of mass enthusiasm and persuasion as I like to think

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:47 UTC

I just bought a ticket to Tristan. It’s a special case of the art-monster talk, because, while Wagner was a pretty terrible person, the issue is the continuity of his music-dramatic project with his public antisemitic advocacy, and German nationalism

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:15 UTC

Putin’s hometown, meaning St. Petersburg? A goofy way to add a political layer to the accusation

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:38 UTC

ah, thought you were mitigating the offense -- misreading on my part

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:55 UTC

The physical aspect you refer to is not the most important — bully and abuse of power don’t require physical contact at all

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:32 UTC

and a lack of internal awareness of structure and relationships -- always just the next thing, at the same level

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:23 UTC

and to be clear, I deeply love the standard symphony orchestra! I just won't be arranging "Harder Better Faster Stronger" for it, either.

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:19 UTC

[discreetly averting his gaze from a previous misattribution] My point is that everything you complain about flows directly from the choice to arrange it for an acoustic orchestra of standard composition. There would be no way not to tone it down.

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

but…the idea of a classical-orchestra arrangement of a campy ‘60s movie theme is already irredeemably insipid! No further degradation is possible!

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

(and yes, it’s a familiar pattern that the attempt at praise curses itself)

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:16 UTC

Bluesky, I love you, but when I “Cancel” a comment, you show a dialog with the options “Discard” and “Cancel”, where the meaning of the word “Cancel” has flipped

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:55 UTC

I too have heard it about Ireland, but I think it reflects a natural consequence of the collision of religion-as-identity with religion as faith/practice/culture

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

And “is it consistent with other evidence about what they mean to do” (in general, yes)

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:43 UTC

It’s the participle of “rife”, i.e. filled, glutted

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 04:43 UTC

Can you suggest a better example offhand? One that’s “not untrue and not unhelpful?”

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 04:40 UTC

As a museum- and gallery-goer, I hate these things. As a budding composer, I fear I’m going to have to learn to write them anyway.

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:45 UTC

Hear, hear — recently marked 40 years of not getting it either

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:55 UTC

I was always baffled by my father’s ability to watch a game without a rooting interest, even a contrived temporary one. Maybe you’ve found the way!

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

Bike riding, job hunting

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:09 UTC

But can you at least reassure me of my preconceptions? /s

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:44 UTC

"We loathe our liberal enemies, but whatever they're proposing for the arts sounds pretty good and we'll go with that."

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:29 UTC

I have read many books, and value some very highly. But since what I do isn’t bookish, it’s hard to say they’ve influenced me. In what way am I different for having read Anthony Powell?

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

Challenge: Choose a book that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 1 day. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 1/1 #BookSky

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:29 UTC

You see a crime, I see an advance in food technology (that I will not eat)

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

looks like the tofu and red stuff are at the beginning of a beautiful frienship

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Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:26 UTC

You have to be logged into a Google account to use Meet

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