Kelly Bucheger
@harderbop.bsky.social
Saxophonist, Composer, Writer. The Illicit Sextet, What Would Mingus Do?, Buffalo Jazz Composers Workshop. Wausau to Minneapolis to Buffalo to Boulder. James Carter ruined my life (look it up). Oxford comma enthusiast. I will Like your cat photos.
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Kelly Bucheger
@harderbop.bsky.social
· Nov 24
From my handwritten 1984 manuscript of Michael Brecker on Invitation. To be consistent with my other transcriptions on my blog I input this into Finale — but I think this handwritten version is quite lovely and readable, though my quarter note rests are pretty idiosyncratic.
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Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
"The girl in Steely Dan's 'Hey Nineteen' would be 64 today" I shout into my empty townhouse while pushing my walker, trying to find my reading glasses.
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"The girl in Steely Dan's 'Hey Nineteen' would be 64 today" I shout into my empty townhouse while pushing my walker, trying to find my reading glasses.
Being very stoned and trying to tell someone I'm going to "Refill my water bottle" but saying by mistake "Rebound my water biffle," I still think about that a lot.
October 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Being very stoned and trying to tell someone I'm going to "Refill my water bottle" but saying by mistake "Rebound my water biffle," I still think about that a lot.
One of my prettiest tunes, recorded 14 years ago today in the amazing recording facilities at Eastman School of Music, featuring the legendary baritone saxophonist Bruce Johnstone as soloist.
A Simple Wish, by Kelly Bucheger
from the album House of Relics
kellybucheger.bandcamp.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
One of my prettiest tunes, recorded 14 years ago today in the amazing recording facilities at Eastman School of Music, featuring the legendary baritone saxophonist Bruce Johnstone as soloist.
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We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
I've said forever that based on my experience Buffalo is the easternmost Midwestern city, so I endorse this map!
This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I've said forever that based on my experience Buffalo is the easternmost Midwestern city, so I endorse this map!
Eight years ago today working with music students at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.
October 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Eight years ago today working with music students at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.
L'Escale de Lyon, Paris, 2009.
October 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
L'Escale de Lyon, Paris, 2009.
Feel so dumb that I missed "labializing" in yesterday's Spelling Bee, considering that I use it all the time in one of my catchphrases: "There you go, labializing again."
October 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Feel so dumb that I missed "labializing" in yesterday's Spelling Bee, considering that I use it all the time in one of my catchphrases: "There you go, labializing again."
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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
-Anne Frank
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
-Anne Frank
Unfortunately, at least so far, all the folks you might have hoped would've been raptured still seem to be here.
September 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Unfortunately, at least so far, all the folks you might have hoped would've been raptured still seem to be here.
The clouds clouded provocatively for yesterday's Last Bike Ride Of The Summer™, a 36-mile jaunt punctuated midway by the excellent beer and grub at Avery Brewing.
September 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The clouds clouded provocatively for yesterday's Last Bike Ride Of The Summer™, a 36-mile jaunt punctuated midway by the excellent beer and grub at Avery Brewing.
I have not eaten the plums that were in the icebox.
I have no idea how they were.
I want to speak to my attorney.
I have no idea how they were.
I want to speak to my attorney.
September 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I have not eaten the plums that were in the icebox.
I have no idea how they were.
I want to speak to my attorney.
I have no idea how they were.
I want to speak to my attorney.
I really appreciate that The Rapture™ was scheduled so that we could all at least enjoy one last Earth Wind & Fire Day together.
September 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I really appreciate that The Rapture™ was scheduled so that we could all at least enjoy one last Earth Wind & Fire Day together.
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I stand with my Brothers and Sisters in the Republican Party, along with MAGA Americans, Evangelicals, and Conservatives in support of today's school shooting in Minneapolis.
August 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I stand with my Brothers and Sisters in the Republican Party, along with MAGA Americans, Evangelicals, and Conservatives in support of today's school shooting in Minneapolis.
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At least Wafer Bucket hasn't caved on their rebranding
August 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
At least Wafer Bucket hasn't caved on their rebranding
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Dems had 4 years to inoculate us from everything happening now, and didn't. I'll never get over it.
August 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Dems had 4 years to inoculate us from everything happening now, and didn't. I'll never get over it.
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I think it's important to understand that people who identify as conservatives have not, as a group, turned away as their party has gone to full mask-off fascism whatsoever, so we can see their true ideology and we can stop pretending to believe in the fake ideology they propounded to disguise it.
Wanna point out that although they call themselves conservatives & even think they're conservatives, I think it's important to distinguish between this ideology and actual conservatism
People who believe in nothing but that they should have this kind of power aren't conservatives; they're fascists
People who believe in nothing but that they should have this kind of power aren't conservatives; they're fascists
Conservative ideology boils down the exclusive franchise to murder others, and if you think that's overstating it, I would invite you to observe that hundreds or thousands of unofficial lawless kidnappers cosplaying as official lawless kidnappers is no threat whatsoever to the conservative mind.
August 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I think it's important to understand that people who identify as conservatives have not, as a group, turned away as their party has gone to full mask-off fascism whatsoever, so we can see their true ideology and we can stop pretending to believe in the fake ideology they propounded to disguise it.
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i cant believe a country that has spent decades measuring success purely by the accumulation of material wealth has lost its moral compass
August 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
i cant believe a country that has spent decades measuring success purely by the accumulation of material wealth has lost its moral compass
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Wow. Who could’ve guessed the party that’s led to country to a recession every time they’ve been in charge in the last 40 years would lead the country to a recession again?
August 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Wow. Who could’ve guessed the party that’s led to country to a recession every time they’ve been in charge in the last 40 years would lead the country to a recession again?
A while back I wrote about my first experience flying First Class, and one unexpected perk that shocked a lot of people at the time...
The Button
My brother-in-law flies a lot for his job, and he kindly sprinkled some of his frequent flyer miles, like fairy dust, onto my recent Buffalo...
kellysotherstuff.blogspot.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A while back I wrote about my first experience flying First Class, and one unexpected perk that shocked a lot of people at the time...
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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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The New York Times has now hired Grok to cover the Mamdani campaign.
July 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The New York Times has now hired Grok to cover the Mamdani campaign.