Heath Marlow
@musiciansatwork111.bsky.social
Interested in artists & communities building meaningful, reciprocal relationships. http://www.residencybuilding.org/blog
Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...
Reinstate Jimmy Kimmel and stop caving to authoritarian censorship!
Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they ...
sign.moveon.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...
"No one I know saw the Kennedy Center as one of the most important arts institutions in the country. It is odd that Sunday night was the first time among the many that I have visited its cavernous, columned space, that it felt like it to me." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
Lionizing Mark Twain, Conan O’Brien Subtly Skewers Trump
In accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the comedian mounted a bristling political attack artfully disguised as a tribute.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"No one I know saw the Kennedy Center as one of the most important arts institutions in the country. It is odd that Sunday night was the first time among the many that I have visited its cavernous, columned space, that it felt like it to me." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
The fight against President Musk (and Kennedy Center chairman Trump) is just starting. I'm joining the mobilization to show the strength of our movement. Time to stop MAGA’s takeover. app.sosha.ai/s/RD6Ehh7e
Join me on April 5th
app.sosha.ai
March 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The fight against President Musk (and Kennedy Center chairman Trump) is just starting. I'm joining the mobilization to show the strength of our movement. Time to stop MAGA’s takeover. app.sosha.ai/s/RD6Ehh7e
"I had not been playing for a stranger, but for a parent whose deep attachment to Bach had been a constant, audible, fact throughout my childhood. However scratchy my reading of that Chaconne had been, to him it was the sound of home." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/a...
In Hospitals and Hospices, ‘Music as Care’ Offers a New Kind of Comfort
A violinist plays for her father. A singer takes requests. In hospitals and hospices, bedside performers offer a new kind of care.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"I had not been playing for a stranger, but for a parent whose deep attachment to Bach had been a constant, audible, fact throughout my childhood. However scratchy my reading of that Chaconne had been, to him it was the sound of home." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/a...
"Climate change is upending the basic assumption that Americans can continue to build wealth and financial security by owning their own home. In a sense, it is upending the American dream." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
Opinion | The New Evidence Climate Change Will Upend American Homeownership
A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"Climate change is upending the basic assumption that Americans can continue to build wealth and financial security by owning their own home. In a sense, it is upending the American dream." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
"[T]here is a real problem with the news that deserves a real solution: we need to find a way to convey positive trends to counterbalance negative events."
Everything in the news is terrible. Without minimizing those events (they are terrible), it’s also important to zoom out: here’s why the world isn’t as bad as you think—and why the news aggregates every bad event while failing to cover positive trends.
Why the world isn't as bad as you think
News coverage is terrible at capturing the biggest good news stories: the long-term trends that show vast improvements in human living standards across long stretches of time. We need to fix that.
www.forkingpaths.co
January 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"[T]here is a real problem with the news that deserves a real solution: we need to find a way to convey positive trends to counterbalance negative events."
"But those terrible forges of American identity, war and the frontier, have been decommissioned. Today our wars are undeclared and ignoble, increasingly fought by mercenaries; our final frontier is the province of specialists and robots."
“This is why I think many people have been even more stunned and demoralized by the 2024 election than by the 2016 election — it seemed that the judgment of history had been rendered. Then it was overturned, by surprise, on appeal.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
Opinion | On Its 10th Anniversary, ‘Hamilton’ Looks Heartbreakingly Different (Gift Article)
It’s a glimpse at a long-lost era, but not the one the characters sing about.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"But those terrible forges of American identity, war and the frontier, have been decommissioned. Today our wars are undeclared and ignoble, increasingly fought by mercenaries; our final frontier is the province of specialists and robots."
"Nobody is owed a dream. The loss of this promise is a breach of contract, the theft of an inheritance. And now Americans are looking for the thieves."
“This is why I think many people have been even more stunned and demoralized by the 2024 election than by the 2016 election — it seemed that the judgment of history had been rendered. Then it was overturned, by surprise, on appeal.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
Opinion | On Its 10th Anniversary, ‘Hamilton’ Looks Heartbreakingly Different (Gift Article)
It’s a glimpse at a long-lost era, but not the one the characters sing about.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Nobody is owed a dream. The loss of this promise is a breach of contract, the theft of an inheritance. And now Americans are looking for the thieves."
"When all parties succumb to the gravitational pull of despotism, escape velocity becomes nearly impossible."
From Tim Cook to Mark Zuckerberg, America’s most privileged class is proactively engaging in Faustian Capitalism, selling America’s democratic soul to make a quick buck. The difference is that they didn’t have to wait for Mephistopheles to make an offer first; souls were sacrificed in advance.
Faustian Capitalism
After decades of faux displays of "corporate social responsibility," it's clear that big business and ultrawealthy individuals will happily sacrifice democracy for a little extra cash.
www.forkingpaths.co
January 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"When all parties succumb to the gravitational pull of despotism, escape velocity becomes nearly impossible."
"The greatest challenge facing classical music today is how to rehumanize a practice built on the fiction of transcendence."
Rediscovering this beautifully sculpted wisdom shared by @dougshadle.bsky.social in 2021.
Rediscovering this beautifully sculpted wisdom shared by @dougshadle.bsky.social in 2021.
December 1, 2024 at 3:01 PM
"The greatest challenge facing classical music today is how to rehumanize a practice built on the fiction of transcendence."
Rediscovering this beautifully sculpted wisdom shared by @dougshadle.bsky.social in 2021.
Rediscovering this beautifully sculpted wisdom shared by @dougshadle.bsky.social in 2021.