Michael McCurdy

@mightyrobots

Percussioner. Publisher. Parenter. I’m a ballet dad, drummer, and music publisher in NYC. ISO: music geeks, science nerds, law dorks. www.mantrapercussion.org www.redpoppymusic.com www.bangonacansound.com www.michaelmccurdy.net

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Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· 14d

THIS FRIDAY! JULY 31! at Mass MoCA!! I am so excited to be premiering Emma, an opera I’ve worked on for many years. Composer/Librettist Annie Gosfield and I have been hatching this since 2018. If you are in the Berkshires this Friday, please come (concert is at 3pm). I’d love to see you.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Jun 19

without a doubt one of the best dark beers with or without alcohol! @athleticbrewingco.bsky.social

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Jun 6

little league baseball and the battle against originalism!! really looking forward to digging into this. @jgienapp.bsky.social

Close-up of a hand holding Jonathan Gienapp’s book Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique at a youth baseball game. The book fills the center of the frame, with a chain-link fence, baseball diamond, green grass, and spectators seated in folding chairs visible behind it. The background is intentionally out of focus, emphasizing the book against the scene of an outdoor summer ballgame.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Jun 4

i took almost the same smartphone pic the other night!

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Apr 29

i’ve dreamed of seeing goat (JP) live for so many years. so psyched this is happening tonight! if you are in NYC and love music, it would be a mistake to miss this show at Roulette (Brooklyn)

image of ticket site for goat (JP) at Roulette in Brooklyn on April 29.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Apr 7

window-dressing confirmed. am guessing Elon Musk (et al) isn’t a signatory and has never cared about how things “should be executed in a manner that complies…” with anyone’s vision but his own

A screenshot of the Space Resources section on the Artemis Accords: The ability to extract and utilize resources on the Moon, Mars, and asteroids is critical to support safe and sustainable space exploration and development.
The Artemis Accords reinforce that space resource extraction and utilization can and should be executed in a manner that complies with the Outer Space Treaty and in support of safe and sustainable space activities.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Mar 23

Friday’s press gaggle. Barely exaggerated: at 12:03 PM, President Trump told reporters he wanted a ceasefire with Iran. At 12:05 he declared victory. At 12:07 he announced he was sending Marines. At 12:08 he said no boots on the ground. At 12:11 he said he did not want a ceasefire. At 12:16 he declared victory again. At 12:17 he asked for a ceasefire. At 12:23 he told NATO they were cowards. At 12:29 he said Iran was begging for a ceasefire. At 12:31 he said everything was perfect. At 12:36 he said $500 oil was a good thing. At 12:37 he demanded Iran open Hormuz. At 12:39 he said Hormuz was never closed. At 12:41 he said the US was not at war with Iran. At 12:42 he declared victory in Iran.

By 3:43 PM he told CBS he doesn’t want a ceasefire. By 5:13 PM - 13 minutes after futures markets closed for the weekend, in a coincidence that should be studied in every securities fraud textbook - he posted on Truth Social that the US is “getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts”. The S&P reversed more than 1% in seconds. QQQ had already surged 1.1% in the 80 minutes before the announcement,a

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Mar 3

A brightly colored cartoon character named “Whiskey Pete” stands grinning beneath bold, arched yellow-and-red letters spelling his name. He is short and stout with a large rounded nose and an oversized orange mustache that curls outward. He wears a vivid purple, green, and pink business suit with a red tie and a wide-brimmed hat. In one hand he holds up a bottle labeled “Whiskey,” and with the other he points outward confidently. The illustration has thick black outlines, exaggerated proportions, and a classic mid-century animated style on a clean white background.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Feb 26

if i had a bakery it would be called: Good Enough.

A loaf of sourdough bread sits partially sliced on a cutting board. Two slices are in front of the loaf facing up. The crumb of the bread reveals decent internal structure and the crust looks pretty decent, too. The loaf looks like it was proved well enough, but the slight density of the crumb likely means it was a bit under proved. The relative stoutness of the loaf for sure means there was little to no oven-spring. However! what’s not revealed in the image is the well-balanced flavor of the bread…. not too tangy, not too mild. I vote this bread Good Enough!

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Feb 23

blizzard-y

A residential street in Sunnyside, Queens during the east coast blizzard. Parked cars line both sides of the road, heavily covered in snow. Bare trees arch overhead with branches coated in white, and a single streetlight casts a warm yellow glow through the falling snow. Brick row houses with lit windows frame the quiet, snow-blanketed scene.

The entrance sign for Sunnyside Gardens Park in Sunnyside, Queens during the east coast blizzard. The green arched sign stands between tall trees, with snow collecting on the sign, hedges, fence, and nearby planters. Large snowflakes are visible in the air, and faint building lights glow softly in the background.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Feb 8

you know it’s cold AF when Saskatchewan, Canada is warmer than NYC. (temps in C)

screenshot that shows NYC temperature to be -17C and Regina, Saskatchewan to be -2C.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Jan 21

Moon over Manhattan

The moon hovers, balances, over the Empire State Building in Manhattan. Its glow of light from what (impossibly) seems to be from the city, rather than the sun, illuminates a crescent reflection on the moon — while bleeding across it to highlight almost the whole moon.

A close up of the moon hovering, balancing, over the Empire State Building in Manhattan. Its glow of light from what (impossibly) seems to be from the city, rather than the sun, illuminates a crescent reflection on the moon — while bleeding across it to highlight almost the whole moon.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Dec 14

#Queens #snowscape #NYC

black and white picture of a snowy winterland treescape in Queens, NYC. A snow-flecked grove of trees stand a bit separated across the white ground, with a backdrop of snowy branches and trunks fading into the distance.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Dec 6

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

quote from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter from an American, December 5: “it could have been written in just 14 words. White supremacists use 88 to refer to Adolf Hitler and “fourteen words” to refer to a popular white supremacist slogan.”

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Dec 1

found a recipe for Levain Bakery-style chocolate chip/walnut cookies. If you know, you know. yummmmmmmmmm.

a picture of 4 stacks of large, gooey, yummy chocolate chip cookies on a wooden cutting board atop a larger cutting board where one cookie is broken open in the foreground showing its gooey, yummy innards.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Nov 14

now it’s a bakery.

google streetview image of the defunct location of Slug’s Saloon (1963-1972). Now it is a bakery.

During the mid-1960s Slug’s slowly started attracting regular jazz performances, developing a reputation as a musician's bar. In this period it became closely associated with free-jazz musician Sun Ra: from March 1966 through late 1967, Sun Ra and his Arkestra (billed as "Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Music") played regular gigs every Monday, and continued to play the venue irregularly thereafter.
By the late 1960s the club had grown a vibrant scene in its out-of-the-way location, with performances from prominent jazz musicians including Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman, among many others. Some of these performances were recorded, often surreptitiously, and appear on officially released or on bootleg albums. Audiences included a number of well-known artists and musicians, ranging from Larry Rivers to Paul H. Brown to Bob Thompson and Salvador Dalí. The venue saw the death of Lee Morgan on February 19, 1972, when he was shot at the bar by his common-law wife Helen Moore. The general demise of the neighborhood and his hard lifestyle as a club owner led Jerry Schulz to leave, and the club shut down in late 1972.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Nov 2

now we wait.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Oct 31

you mean this?

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Oct 24

i did it.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Sep 29

hey @jay.bsky.team and @moderation.bsky.app this is a joke right? Antifa isn’t an organization.

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Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Sep 28

…an oligarchy fighting to maintain their oligarchy over the other oligarchy!!! fkn hell, these people. jeeezuz! Here’s a screenshot of a quote from Klein, hands to the heavens… WHAT HAVE WE MISSED!? THERES GOT TO BE SOMETHING CONSEQUENTIAL THAT WE MISSED. yes there is: capitalism and corruption.

screenshot of transcript — Ezra Klein: “And I feel like me and the people who believe what I believe — not narrowly speaking, but the whole broad coalition — have failed in a really consequential way.”

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Sep 28

…by these two voices “shaping what our political culture is.” (quote from klein) how on earth can this not be part of the conversation? since slavery it has been about oligarchy! that’s what the civil war WAS!!… 6/

Screenshot of transcript — Ezra Klein to Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I think that I am a person — and I think that you are a person, whether you admit it or not — who is on of the people with a voice in shaping what our political culture is….”

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Sep 26

some important facts:

screenshot of Joyce White Vance post: Important thing to know: Grand juries only hear one side of the story. The defense doesn’t cross examine witnesses or present a case. Good prosecutors are committed to the truth & doing justice. They don’t indict cases when the defendant can contradict their case.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Sep 23

study last year of 2,480,797 children: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

screenshot of text from JAMA website: “Conclusions and Relevance Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to familial confounding.”

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Sep 19

here’s the actual quote from a talk he and Angela Davis gave at Univ of Mich in Feb. Interesting how it’s been revised/altered. Same sentiment, but definitely different quote. www.michigandaily.com/news/campus-...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: We are in a moment right now where people are asking themselves, ‘Why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy?’” Coates said. “However you take the state of democracy in America to be, and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, if you can’t fight for something that is so blatantly and obviously unjust, if you can’t oppose the 2,000 bombs dropped on schools and on hospitals, what does everything else mean?”

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Sep 19

“You have prioritized your own profit and selfish exigencies over our democracy. There will be a great price companies pay for bending-the-knee to this fascist regime — not giving you any more of my money is a step toward the price you will ultimately pay.”

a screenshot of a confirmation page for cancelling a Disney+ subscription. The confirmation text says: “Ok, your subscription has been cancelled”

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Sep 6

at our much beloved neighborhood park…. Sunnyside Gardens Park in Queens. Summer Fridays… park stays open until 10, the kids run wild and free and so does the beer… for the adults.

pic of outdoor bar advertising “Free Beer” at Sunnyside Gardens Park in the NYC borough of Queens… the greatest borough and the greatest neighborhood park.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Sep 1

i ❤️ Queens

a picture of an early September sunset over Manhattan — seen from Sunnyside, Queens. The sky is covered in a multicolored palette of pastels as the sun sets behind skyscrapers in the distance.

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Aug 28

what a great series sweep against the Phillies at home the past 3 nights. 9 straight wins against them in Queens. Wish I could’ve been there IRL. 4 upcoming games in PHL. Hope we chisel-away their 4 game lead to retake the NL East. LETS FKN GO METS!!

Michael McCurdy@mightyrobots· Aug 27

hard to choose a fav Horse Lords track, but Fanfare for Effective Freedom is pretty high up there. horselords.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...