Allison Portnow Lathrop
@allisonportnow.bsky.social
Public programs at Ackland Art Museum (UNC) | UNC musicology PhD '11 (Einstein & modernism) | double bass/gamba | little kid mom | MBC lifer | food and flower garden-obsessed | she/her |
I made it to 43. 👀🎉
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I made it to 43. 👀🎉
I have learned through whatever October was and No* School November that most non-nature kids shows are just yelling. Whether we’re happy or sad. Yelling.
*Election Day, Veteran’s Day, week for Thanksgiving
*Election Day, Veteran’s Day, week for Thanksgiving
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I have learned through whatever October was and No* School November that most non-nature kids shows are just yelling. Whether we’re happy or sad. Yelling.
*Election Day, Veteran’s Day, week for Thanksgiving
*Election Day, Veteran’s Day, week for Thanksgiving
Watching “Nightmare Before Christmas” for movie night and the #DiesIrae for “Making Christmas” is stressing me out. Weirdly the 8yo said it was scary at this exact moment. Does he know??
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Watching “Nightmare Before Christmas” for movie night and the #DiesIrae for “Making Christmas” is stressing me out. Weirdly the 8yo said it was scary at this exact moment. Does he know??
Had a brief (ha) midweek trip to the ER this week, but on a plus side I took these two pictures.
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Had a brief (ha) midweek trip to the ER this week, but on a plus side I took these two pictures.
Idea: wrist play couches with kid plays (if they do this, then you try that). 🏈 One wrist per kid.
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Idea: wrist play couches with kid plays (if they do this, then you try that). 🏈 One wrist per kid.
Now I have to go to bed and I miss the main character so much.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for The Correspondent. Happen to be a sucker for an epistolary novel anyway, but even better than I hoped.
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Now I have to go to bed and I miss the main character so much.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for The Correspondent. Happen to be a sucker for an epistolary novel anyway, but even better than I hoped.
November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for The Correspondent. Happen to be a sucker for an epistolary novel anyway, but even better than I hoped.
This morning I said, we’ll at least have almost two full months til Thanksgiving with how late it is. 🦃
Has November 1st always come right after October 31st? Seems kind of abrupt.
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This morning I said, we’ll at least have almost two full months til Thanksgiving with how late it is. 🦃
Happy Halloween. The gecko and axolotl costume shop is CLOSED.
November 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Happy Halloween. The gecko and axolotl costume shop is CLOSED.
Missing an axolotl arm but otherwise good to go! 🎃
Trash heap is not happening (this year?? All-knowing Trash Heap willing??) — turns out it’s hard to make a trash heap costume while your life is kind of a mess. The great irony!
Trash heap is not happening (this year?? All-knowing Trash Heap willing??) — turns out it’s hard to make a trash heap costume while your life is kind of a mess. The great irony!
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Missing an axolotl arm but otherwise good to go! 🎃
Trash heap is not happening (this year?? All-knowing Trash Heap willing??) — turns out it’s hard to make a trash heap costume while your life is kind of a mess. The great irony!
Trash heap is not happening (this year?? All-knowing Trash Heap willing??) — turns out it’s hard to make a trash heap costume while your life is kind of a mess. The great irony!
My pumpkin was too tough to carve so I used the next best tool: a power drill. 🎃
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My pumpkin was too tough to carve so I used the next best tool: a power drill. 🎃
Wait
Or is it a time-traveling Bill Belichick? 🤔 @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Wait
Reposted by Allison Portnow Lathrop
THIS is an interesting data point
No rap songs are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990
No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990
No rap songs have ranked in the top 40 on the last two Billboard Hot 100 charts, following Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "Luther" dropping off the chart.
www.billboard.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
THIS is an interesting data point
Change one letter, ruin a candy
Knickers
Knickers
Change one letter, ruin a candy
MayDay
MayDay
Change one letter, ruin a candy
Butlerfinger
Butlerfinger
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Change one letter, ruin a candy
Knickers
Knickers
It’s all fun and games until you’re using the last two cans of chickpeas in your whole house.
October 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It’s all fun and games until you’re using the last two cans of chickpeas in your whole house.
What kind of things should I glue onto myself? Leaves? 🍂 Drawn-on-felt fruits?
It’s happening. The Trash Heap is the hero for our times. youtu.be/rJVJ8xIukMw
Fraggle Rock | Trashy Knows All, Trashy Tells All, Trashy IS All! | Jim Henson Family Hub
YouTube video by Jim Henson's Family Hub
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
What kind of things should I glue onto myself? Leaves? 🍂 Drawn-on-felt fruits?
Yelling at my spouse for not getting an engineering degree in Halloween costume design. 👌
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Yelling at my spouse for not getting an engineering degree in Halloween costume design. 👌
It’s happening. The Trash Heap is the hero for our times. youtu.be/rJVJ8xIukMw
Fraggle Rock | Trashy Knows All, Trashy Tells All, Trashy IS All! | Jim Henson Family Hub
YouTube video by Jim Henson's Family Hub
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It’s happening. The Trash Heap is the hero for our times. youtu.be/rJVJ8xIukMw
Friends were chatting about how they want to know why they should love their friends’ favorite musicians. Someone came up with, what if we had a party where we each gave PowerPoints with musical examples of our favorite musicians??
They just invented the discipline of musicology.
They just invented the discipline of musicology.
October 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Friends were chatting about how they want to know why they should love their friends’ favorite musicians. Someone came up with, what if we had a party where we each gave PowerPoints with musical examples of our favorite musicians??
They just invented the discipline of musicology.
They just invented the discipline of musicology.
Bean chili with lots of Fritos. www.bonappetit.com/recipe/veget...
Vegetarian Chili With Lots of Fritos
Quick, spicy, filling, and made mostly of pantry ingredients, this chili/tortilla soup/frito pie mash-up is calling your name. (Shhh. Listen closely.)
www.bonappetit.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Bean chili with lots of Fritos. www.bonappetit.com/recipe/veget...
Lilith Fair doc: I laughed, I cried, I tried to explain centuries (millennia?) of misogyny to my 8yo son.
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Lilith Fair doc: I laughed, I cried, I tried to explain centuries (millennia?) of misogyny to my 8yo son.
Just saw a 22yo figure skate to this song I probably haven’t thought about in 22 years (or since it was everywhere 30 😅 years ago). youtu.be/GCsQZSB1gZg?...
Karl Jenkins - Adiemus (Official Video)
YouTube video by KarlJenkinsVEVO
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Just saw a 22yo figure skate to this song I probably haven’t thought about in 22 years (or since it was everywhere 30 😅 years ago). youtu.be/GCsQZSB1gZg?...
Reposted by Allison Portnow Lathrop
Ed Ruscha, Thick Blocks of Musical Fudge, 1976 www.moma.org/collection/w...
October 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Ed Ruscha, Thick Blocks of Musical Fudge, 1976 www.moma.org/collection/w...
Started PT today to starting on balancing and not wobbling with all these holes in my head and it was so fun? It’s like I have a personal trainer (who is proud of me if I can do 20 toe raises).
October 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Started PT today to starting on balancing and not wobbling with all these holes in my head and it was so fun? It’s like I have a personal trainer (who is proud of me if I can do 20 toe raises).
Yes, turning the magazine upside down and reading from the other side after several pages definitely doesn’t make you seem weird in public. Or like a spy.
October 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yes, turning the magazine upside down and reading from the other side after several pages definitely doesn’t make you seem weird in public. Or like a spy.