Ninedragonspot
@ninedragonspot.bsky.social
Chinese opera! 戲曲！Taiwanese opera! 歌仔戲，亂彈戲, 客家戲！And occasionally a bit of the classical stuff.
Today’s follow-up:
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Today’s follow-up:
Balancing a Crutch on the Head aka the Drunken Immortal Field Sobriety Test
#新義和歌劇團 #歌仔戲 #kuaáhì #TaiwaneseOpera
#新義和歌劇團 #歌仔戲 #kuaáhì #TaiwaneseOpera
October 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Balancing a Crutch on the Head aka the Drunken Immortal Field Sobriety Test
#新義和歌劇團 #歌仔戲 #kuaáhì #TaiwaneseOpera
#新義和歌劇團 #歌仔戲 #kuaáhì #TaiwaneseOpera
I’d sooner kick over a kid’s sand-castle than disturb the lovely foam on my latte. What am I to do?
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I’d sooner kick over a kid’s sand-castle than disturb the lovely foam on my latte. What am I to do?
The indomitable 孫凱琳 delivers a knockout for the 春美歌劇團. From the stage at Kaohsiung’s tiny 九天堂
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
October 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The indomitable 孫凱琳 delivers a knockout for the 春美歌劇團. From the stage at Kaohsiung’s tiny 九天堂
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
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While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.
What We Can Do About ICE
ICE is in the Bay Area. And yes, we can all do something about it.
www.coyotemedia.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.
It’s never too early to start drilling your tot on the basics of aerial stage combat.
From Tainan’s lively 水錦歌劇團, up north for a short stint at Bali’s 安福宮.
#TaiwaneseOpera #歌仔戲 #kuaáhì
From Tainan’s lively 水錦歌劇團, up north for a short stint at Bali’s 安福宮.
#TaiwaneseOpera #歌仔戲 #kuaáhì
October 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It’s never too early to start drilling your tot on the basics of aerial stage combat.
From Tainan’s lively 水錦歌劇團, up north for a short stint at Bali’s 安福宮.
#TaiwaneseOpera #歌仔戲 #kuaáhì
From Tainan’s lively 水錦歌劇團, up north for a short stint at Bali’s 安福宮.
#TaiwaneseOpera #歌仔戲 #kuaáhì
I gave up on German crosswords the day I came across the clue “Menschenrasse” for a five-letter word beginning with “N”.
nothing will remind you that you are not a native English speaker like attempting English newspaper crosswords
October 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I gave up on German crosswords the day I came across the clue “Menschenrasse” for a five-letter word beginning with “N”.
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Your best ever night at the #theatre? Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Thurs 13 Nov to recreate it - or stage the show of your dreams - & discover the use of #toy theatre in #heritage #research! From my fab PhD student @pdwebster.bsky.social. @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
A Night at the TOY Theatre!
www.history.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Your best ever night at the #theatre? Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Thurs 13 Nov to recreate it - or stage the show of your dreams - & discover the use of #toy theatre in #heritage #research! From my fab PhD student @pdwebster.bsky.social. @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
I return to Taipei next week for 2+ months and am simply overwhelmed by the number and quality of outdoor temple-fair opera offerings for the first part of October. And on the weekends there are shows in the indoor theaters. It’s bonkers!
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
September 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I return to Taipei next week for 2+ months and am simply overwhelmed by the number and quality of outdoor temple-fair opera offerings for the first part of October. And on the weekends there are shows in the indoor theaters. It’s bonkers!
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
I’m so looking forward to episodes of MorseGPT, where the curmudgeonly detective hallucinates a crime, all the suspects, & an unexpected solution.
“You see, Lewis, this arsobromine we found at Oxford’s King’s College could have been made at home from Marmite and cigarette stubs. It was the dog.”
“You see, Lewis, this arsobromine we found at Oxford’s King’s College could have been made at home from Marmite and cigarette stubs. It was the dog.”
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September 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I’m so looking forward to episodes of MorseGPT, where the curmudgeonly detective hallucinates a crime, all the suspects, & an unexpected solution.
“You see, Lewis, this arsobromine we found at Oxford’s King’s College could have been made at home from Marmite and cigarette stubs. It was the dog.”
“You see, Lewis, this arsobromine we found at Oxford’s King’s College could have been made at home from Marmite and cigarette stubs. It was the dog.”
The joke’s on them. I registered my account under the name Anna Karenina.
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The joke’s on them. I registered my account under the name Anna Karenina.
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只可說以指喻指之非指，以馬喻馬之非馬。
"Well, you know," with an almost Saussurean air, "a finger signifying a finger is not actually a finger. Just as, of course, a horse signifying a horse isn't actually a horse!"
"Well, you know," with an almost Saussurean air, "a finger signifying a finger is not actually a finger. Just as, of course, a horse signifying a horse isn't actually a horse!"
September 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
只可說以指喻指之非指，以馬喻馬之非馬。
"Well, you know," with an almost Saussurean air, "a finger signifying a finger is not actually a finger. Just as, of course, a horse signifying a horse isn't actually a horse!"
"Well, you know," with an almost Saussurean air, "a finger signifying a finger is not actually a finger. Just as, of course, a horse signifying a horse isn't actually a horse!"
Hanns Eisler was a singular composer: scrupulous yet vibrant. He achieved far less than what he was capable of, due to the circumstances alluded to by Professor Wolff.
youtu.be/LvB_XNCaJKo?...
youtu.be/LvB_XNCaJKo?...
September 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hanns Eisler was a singular composer: scrupulous yet vibrant. He achieved far less than what he was capable of, due to the circumstances alluded to by Professor Wolff.
youtu.be/LvB_XNCaJKo?...
youtu.be/LvB_XNCaJKo?...
It’s always a special day when someone from the Sinosphere’s theatre world discovers Zeffirelli’s “Turandot” production for the first time and are gobsmacked by the production’s sheer idiocy.
#MetropolitanOpera #Turandot #FlamingGarbage
#MetropolitanOpera #Turandot #FlamingGarbage
September 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
It’s always a special day when someone from the Sinosphere’s theatre world discovers Zeffirelli’s “Turandot” production for the first time and are gobsmacked by the production’s sheer idiocy.
#MetropolitanOpera #Turandot #FlamingGarbage
#MetropolitanOpera #Turandot #FlamingGarbage
And Etsy pulls through in the nick of time.
September 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
And Etsy pulls through in the nick of time.
Meanwhile, i would like to see this cold case reopened.
September 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Meanwhile, i would like to see this cold case reopened.
For reasons I can no longer remember (jet lag?), I apparently thought it was a good idea to do this entire interview holding my hands behind my back.
I look like I’ve been handcuffed.
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
I look like I’ve been handcuffed.
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
September 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
For reasons I can no longer remember (jet lag?), I apparently thought it was a good idea to do this entire interview holding my hands behind my back.
I look like I’ve been handcuffed.
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
I look like I’ve been handcuffed.
#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera
I would not call myself Johann Adolph Hasse’s #1 fan, but this recitative from Piramo e Tisbe (1768), sung by a cruel father and accompanied by bare, chromatically-rising octaves, is positively hair-rising.
And I don’t even have that much hair left!
And I don’t even have that much hair left!
September 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I would not call myself Johann Adolph Hasse’s #1 fan, but this recitative from Piramo e Tisbe (1768), sung by a cruel father and accompanied by bare, chromatically-rising octaves, is positively hair-rising.
And I don’t even have that much hair left!
And I don’t even have that much hair left!
Bringing fowls to Athens.
Chick-fil-A opening first permanent restaurants in Europe, Asia this year
Chick-fil-A opening first permanent restaurants in Europe, Asia this year
The locations will be managed by local owner-operators with roots in those nations.
www.1011now.com
August 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Bringing fowls to Athens.
Me explaining to my husband that we need to travel to a bunch of different countries so that I can continue shopping for books.
The “de minimis” exemption, which allowed shipments of goods worth $800 or less to enter the United States duty free, will be eliminated starting Friday. https://cnn.it/4oW72Fw
August 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Me explaining to my husband that we need to travel to a bunch of different countries so that I can continue shopping for books.
It’s that time of day when half of Taiwan hops onto social media to type in all caps:
地牛乖！
地牛乖！
August 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s that time of day when half of Taiwan hops onto social media to type in all caps:
地牛乖！
地牛乖！
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As sad as I am about the death of UChicago, my alma mater and one of the world's great universities, there is something tragically poetic about the university being done in by the very same neoliberal logic that the UChicago econ department did more than almost any other institution to foster.
August 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As sad as I am about the death of UChicago, my alma mater and one of the world's great universities, there is something tragically poetic about the university being done in by the very same neoliberal logic that the UChicago econ department did more than almost any other institution to foster.
I still think pride of place goes to the time when an elephant in Opera Omaha’s production of Aida, spooked by a scenery mishap involving the leopard riding on its back, made a dash for the section of the audience reserved for the elderly and infirm.
www.upi.com/Archives/198...
www.upi.com/Archives/198...
August 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I still think pride of place goes to the time when an elephant in Opera Omaha’s production of Aida, spooked by a scenery mishap involving the leopard riding on its back, made a dash for the section of the audience reserved for the elderly and infirm.
www.upi.com/Archives/198...
www.upi.com/Archives/198...
Ugh.
very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors.
www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
Letter | Bucknell University Press to Close
This should alarm university presses nationwide, writes Aníbal González-Pérez.
www.chronicle.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Ugh.