D. Gaking
@gakingmusic
Business, tech, and music educator; percussionist, composer/arranger, reader/writer, birder, cat dad, 🏀⚽️⚾️ fan
If 1990s cartoons taught me anything, within the next 15 minutes a super hero team or a clever private detective will be along to tie up this cigar-smoking villain and the corrupt politician who took his bribe, and to throw their Mar-a-lago-faced girlfriends into the scummy reflecting pool.
I like the Swiss kit. Looks like every time you check the radar in your weather app in the Midwest this time of year.
If hospitals charge private insurers pay more to make up for lower prices for Medicare/Medicaid, then Trump’s negotiating of power prices for the gov programs may just drive up the costs of private HC. Lazy band-aid fixes in place of desperately needed policy reform. share.google/xaiCmKxseY2I...
I finished 6 books in March. Red Rising is excellent. Reminds me of Ender’s Game. Enshittification is a must-read. 💙📚
The Kind brand has finished shifting their entire breakfast bar line-up to being “reinforced” with soy protein isolate. Why are we suddenly so obsessed with adding junk protein to every food?
This FOX graphic for the World Baseball Classic definitely got me to stop scrolling.😳
UVU being d***s about conference realignment, so the WAC went scorched earth in one of the greatest sports press releases of all time.
This photo on the Dave Bartholomew Wikipedia article goes so hard. It's a 1981 Dave Bartholomew's New Orleans Jazz Band record found destroyed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Ba...
Some crazy @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social stuff I found working on a marketing lesson: Wikipedia has a whole page on the Domino's animated ad character The Noid. Apparently, these ads accidentally created a hostage situation at a Domino's restaurant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noid
3. Endling is literary fiction with metafictional elements. Its characters navigate many of the complexities of modern Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora as the 2020 Russian invasion begins. It's a wild ride. Every time you think you know what is coming next, it will be something different. 💙📚🎧
2. How to Grieve Like a Victorian is a surprisingly lighthearted, humorous novel by a local author here in Central Indiana. I'm not a big romance reader, but Dr. Reeves's snark made this so entertaining for me. 💙📚❤️
1. The Expert of Subtle Revisions is a mysterious sci-fi novel. The author based some of the story on the history of her Austrian lineage, but expanded it into a time travel adventure. The #audiobook on Libro.fm is well-produced with a cast for the book's multiple narrators. 🪐📚💙📚🎧
My top Apple Music artists for this year. (I actually don’t listen to a lot of music, too busy playing it and writing it I guess.)
Hey, Mike Ehrmantraut was at the IU-Purdue game, so anything is possible.
Carmel HS Marching Band out here at BOA with no field mics, no little stages for chamber ensembles, and no fill speakers. Just a couple solo mics and good old fashioned breath support. And they had the loudest, clearest woodwinds I’ve heard all night.
This marching band has 11 students marching dots, and an on-field judge still managed to get in the way.😂
Enjoying some Bands of America Grand National Prelims tonight. Avon Marching Band had a great run. Can anyone catch them? I’m curious to hear the Wando and the Texas bands tonight.
The AI on @thestorygraph.com went hard after Johnson & Johnson here. 💙📚💡
Trump: I need something else I can release for pretend transparency that is not the Epstein files. WH staff: We’ll have you something by noon. Noon:
I distinctly remember Trump supporters storming the Capitol and stabbing police officers with a flag pole that was bearing the Stars and Stripes. How about we all be honest with the fact that every political ideology has its extremists, and violence is bad no matter what side you are on?
Crazy watching the government carry out illegal acts that I predicted 20+ years ago.