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John Fenster
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I love bodies of water and opera and other music/theater. Cats, baking, tea. He/him. Westchester County.
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Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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My neighbor Orpheus told me Hades keeps eating Eurydice so I asked how many Eurydices he has and he said he just goes to the railroad station and gets a new Eurydice afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding Eurydices to Hades and then Hermes started crying.
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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“to die, to sneep; to sneep, perchance to dream—for in that sneep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffned off this mortan coin, must give us pause, there's the respect, that makes canamity of so nong nife” - hamnet
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Before attending Masquerade the only version of Phantom of the Opera I've seen was the semi-staged 25th anniversary (on video)
Black lace mask over a program for Masquerade, held against a window papered over with old (seeming) newspapers. A nearby headline reads PANIC AT THE OPERA POPULAIRE! A man in a black velvet tuxedo stands with a woman in a black and white dress, in front of a concrete angel statue. Dramatic red lighting comes from behind the statue. Both humans wear black lace masks
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Arabella 2: The New Kingdom
Too close up view of a bright chandelier, hanging low from the ceiling of the Metropolitan Opera House. The gold stage curtain and several rows of seats filling up with people and phones are in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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A little bit of snow is sticking to the cedars
A very little bit of snow sticking to some branches of close together cedar trees
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Damn, wages have not kept up with inflation at all
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That Ortiz and Clase reportedly received the EXACT same dollar amount from fixers — in 2025! — as Shoeless Joe Jackson and Lefty Williams did in 1919 is … completely absurd. And another reason why player salaries have very little to do with why these gambling scandals happen.
November 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Wien, Österich
A painting of an ostrich in Österreich
November 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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These Tureen tests are getting crazy
A serving set mocked up as a Turing test. Don't ask why.
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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NYC! I have a spare ticket to the Modigliani Quartet at Carnegie Hall in the Weill Recital Hall tonight. 7:30 PM. Kurtag, Beethoven, & Brahms. I'm still going, my friend can't make it!
Screenshot from Carnegie Hall website. Has today's date (Nov 7) and a picture of a string quartet in suits (no ties) holding their instruments
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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In Parsifal Gurnemanz's job is to be wrong and he's kept very busy
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Maggie really loves her heater vent
Tabby cat lies on an wall-mounted electric heater vent Same cat, laying on her side, feet against the wall, making it look like the picture is miss-oriented.
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Volta going all out for lounging in the windowsill
Medium hair tabby cat in browns laying in the windowsill. She is against a fine screen, with a green bush bright in the sun Same tabby cat, now with a leg stretching further along the window. She's also looking at her camera showing off the white around her mouth, in her ruff, and on her paw. She is baking in the sun.
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Sexy alice tully hall acoustic enhancement speaker system
October 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Pärt at Carnegie Hall! This concert sold so quickly
View from high above of the mainstage at Carnegie Hall. The orchestra set up includes eight double basses, two pianos, a harp, an array of percussion instruments, plus additional chairs for other instrumentalists and choir Page from program. All works by Arvo Pärt Estonian Festival Orchestra Paavo Järvi, Artistic Director and Conductor Midori, Violin Hans Christian Aavik, Violin Nico Muhly, Piano Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Tõnu Kaljuste, Director Trinity Choir Melissa Attebury, Director Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1977; rev. 1980) Perpetuum mobile (1963) La Sindone (2005; rev. 2022) Adam's Lament (2009) Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir INTERMISSION
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Well today I am drinking tea; show doesn't start until 8!
Focus is a red mug with yellow text in all caps reading I bet you think I'm drinking tea!?!. It is merch from the Broadway run of the musical The Drowsy Chaperone.
October 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Serious bird watching
Gray and white long haired Maine Coon cat stares fixedly out an unseen window off to the right. Part of a bush is on the other side of a closed window behind him
October 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Wisdom is knowing that ironing is perhaps not the best idea right now
October 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Maybe it'll turn out alright this time
Pic of the stage set for Hadestown. It is reminiscent of a bar, with raised positions for a few band members, small semi-circular risers, tables with chairs folded over them. Lots of wood and neutral colors.
October 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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What a cast
Screenshot from BSO website with cast and problem details Boston Symphony Orchestra -Andris Nelsons, conductor Eleanor Lyons, Soprano Wiebeke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor Franz-Josef Selig, Bass Tanglewood Festival Chorus -Anthony Blake Clark, guest conductor BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
October 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Sunday afternoon at the NY Philharmonic with Boulez and Debussy
Digital wall in the lobby, showing today's program. Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano BOULEZ Notation IV, Rythmique, for Solo Piano Notation IV, Rythmique, for Orchestra DEBUSSY Gigues, from Images for Orchestra BOULEZ Notation VII, Hiératique, for Solo Piano Notation VII, Hiératique, for Orchestra DEBUSSY Rondes de printemps, from Images for Orchestra BOULEZ Notation II, Très vif, for Solo Piano Notation II, Très vif, for Orchestra DEBUSSY Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra La Mer: Trois Esquisses symphoniques
October 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Pic from a few days ago when I was here earlier in the evening
Right side of the facade of the Metropolitan Opera House with their banner for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay hanging. It's still light out.
October 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Missed Kavalier & Clay on Monday but now I'm feeling better and they're offering discount orchestra seats so let's see how this is
October 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM