"Just because you did it doesn't mean you're guilty" -ad for an NJ lawyer who has found their very Jersey lane
Micaela Baranello
@micaelab.bsky.social
musicologist (associate prof, Temple U), Philadelphia’s 36th leading SEPTA Route 2 busfluencer. wrote a book about operetta. she/her.
it's weird that the university president's welcome back social starts at 8:30 a.m. on a Tuesday? isn't it???
My university has switched from Perusall to Leganto for social annotation. Has anyone used both and can offer any wisdom/comparison? (This is due to Perusall's movement to a paid model.) (unfortunately edtech has spelled the end of my social media vacation)
I am taking a break from my social media vacation only eight hours in to say Emily Wilson is 100% correct and also the superior casting choice for Telemachus would have been Harris Dickinson
I'm taking a light social media vacation because I think too much phone time has been giving me headaches. I will be off being very productive (working on sewing projects, alternating Taskmaster and international art film) if anything exciting happens or if I have a really good tweet I'll be back
if your last name is “Guanciale,” a career as an actor seems like it would be tempting fate
I've been looking at pendant lights for so long Wayfair is going to do a wellness check on me
I ordered a single expensive Danish lampshade from Design Within Reach to put in the center of my living room and went with the least offensive Wayfair for everything else lol
Micaela Baranello@micaelab.bsky.social · 2w agoI am trying to buy some light fixtures on the internet and guys it is a bad time
I am trying to buy some light fixtures on the internet and guys it is a bad time
so many people's lives would be improved by living in philadelphia
I feel like I should publish something about Mario Lanza just because he’s the patron saint of my neighborhood
I’m impressed at how this package both traveled back in time and teleported from New Jersey to Memphis
So there’s a Russian expat Oppenheimer (a long biopic about a nuclear scientist) and it stars Teodor Currentzis and Dimitri Tcherniakov? What is happening
For when you want to simultaneously hang up your coat and memorialize the Robert Lepage Ring Cycle
private library update: the librarian miswound the grandfather clock and it produced some mistimed dongs the girl across from me pulled a copy of Das Kapital 1 from her bag
I listened to The Big Picture’s Odyssey episode and they made the exact same joke I did in my Letterboxd and I swear I thought of it independently lol
Micaela Baranello@micaelab.bsky.social · 2w agoI enjoyed the movie but seeing amidst a summer of watching almost 100% art films was kind of tough? Like I wish the dialogue wasn’t so full of cliches and I just don’t like the punch punch bang bang bang
I gotta give my music take: I found the score EXTREMELY UNDERWHELMING Maybe someday Göransson will learn about modulations. his head might explode
Micaela Baranello@micaelab.bsky.social · 2w agoI am seated
going to see The Odyssey when 80% of what I know about the plot is from ADing a production of Il ritorno d’Ulisse
How can you say The Odyssey is “the movie event of the year” in a year when there’s a new Pawel Pawlikowski???????
not sure I still qualify as a pro critic but three impeccable pre opera dinner options: 1. fish cafeteria behind the Deutsche Oper Berlin 2. Surinamese restaurant in the subway stop next to the Dutch National Opera 3. Kammerspiele restaurant near the Bay Staats, Munich
Hugh Morris@hwfmorris.bsky.social · 3w agoOn my way to glyndebourne for the first time. Reminded of this fun piece, where I asked friends at the Guardian, Observer, NYT, Spectator and more about their pre-concert dining options. Ft an enjoyably elegiac ode to Pizza Express’s American Hot by Richard Bratby van-magazine.com/mag/pre-conc...
oh no, the Delco Cinematic Universe is upon us the theme of both these shows is grimy depravity so there’s no danger of running out of Delco-related material collider.com/task-season-...
HBO Is Officially Bringing Back 'Mare of Easttown' in a Fantastic Way
Julianne Nicholson is set to reprise her Mare of Easttown role in Task Season 2, confirming that the two shows exist in the same universe.
collider.com
Pollution isn’t too bad in Philadelphia but the sky has a disquieting yellow undertone, or, as the librarian just put it, “it’s a little Mad Max out there”
love to spend my afternoon under dem Eindruck des sogenannten performative turn (reading a German dissertation)
I’m in Lancaster fabric shopping and apparently there isn’t an Amish rule stating thou shalt not wear 100% polyester, disappointing
if you are one of the several musicology instructors who does Reba's medieval scriptorium activity and are interested in a version gamifying this into a full-blown manuscript-copying scavenger hunt competition, please let me know. I have some ideas.