OldDenverGuy

@sir_squatchalot Opera companies that include Broadway musicals as part of their season — not in addition to an opera on the schedule, but in place of one — are performing a similar disservice to their audience. There are HUNDREDS of underperformed operas that should receive attention. Do them!

Here’s a truth the classical music world is learning the hard way. You can’t take someone else’s audience. You can only borrow them for a night or two. You have to build your own audience over generations. By the lazy and unimaginative pops programming this industry has adopted we are trying to take other people’s audiences. We’ve forsaken our own audience for a cheap one night show’s ticket sales. Take the NSO. Under Marvin Hamlisch people would buy a pops subscription and then ask who the guest artist is. Now they only buy tickets for the guest artist. We have literally programmed ourselves out of our own concerts. They will never return for a classical concert because they didn’t come to hear the orchestra and they didn’t hear us at the concert. That’s a massive problem.

@VividProwess Invading, not fleeing.

If Islam is so great, why do Muslims flee to Christian countries?

@TheTopRepost Many years ago, I had a meeting with the legislature in Pierre. Flew up from Denver and stayed in a hotel in Fort Pierre. I didn't know about the different time zones, so I showed up at the Capitol an hour early and couldn't figure out why no one else was there.

Has any one that follows me or sees this post ever been to my home state of South Dakota? And if so where did you visit? The Black Hills is such a beautiful place, I suggest it to everyone!

@sigg20 Cards Iron Man at 1B: Averaged 152 games played per year from 1959-65, including all 162 in 1963. That was his best year, with 200 hits, 27 HRs, 109 RBI and 106 runs. Gold Glover at 1B every season from 1960-66. He turned 92 on January 28!

Memorable Athletes From the Past #SFGiants   #Cardinals #Phillies #MLB #nostalgia

@atrupar I thought "Rolling Thunder" was the title of a movie.

Rep. Rich McCormick: "We were horrible in Vietnam until we did Rolling Thunder One and Rolling Thunder Two, and then we won. As soon as we do half-measures, we lose. The faster we get this over the better. If we seize Kharg Island, it's technically boots on the ground. It could be done almost flawlessly. If we have enough firepower, it would be very easy to defend."

@BROKENBRITAIN0 Making it safe to go (in)to (the) Bath again!

🚨BREAKING: The mayor of Bath has RESIGNED after sharing a social media media post that said the arson attack on Jewish ambulances in Golders Green was a “False flag.” 🇬🇧 Dr. Bharat Pankhania, a Liberal Democrat councillor, had already been suspended following the tweets, but has now RESIGNED 🚫

@ukhomeoffice Is this a parody account?

Police time will no longer be wasted investigating legal social media posts, freeing up officers to patrol the streets and tackle real crime. By scrapping Non‑Crime Hate Incidents, we are balancing the protection of vulnerable communities while respecting free speech.

@jessicanolanova @visegrad24 They'll need to speed things up, since Belgium has the inside track and the U.K. is gaining from the outside.

@visegrad24 France, in appeasing their growing Muslim population, is running full speed to become a Muslim country

BREAKING: Israel ends all defense deals with France The Israeli Ministry of Defense has suspended all defense procurement from France and terminated existing contracts. This decision follows Paris's refusal to allow U.S. aircraft carrying military supplies for Israel to transit French airspace. 🇮🇱🇫🇷

@gokosherkid @metpoliceuk Those cops are apparently big fans of percussion instruments.

Outside Westminster Magistrates Court in front of Policemen, TABASSUM KAHN screaming that “Zionists are peadophiles” and “Israel rapes children” Tabby is well known to @metpoliceuk who fail time & time again to arrest her for her clear defamation, slander & blood libel against Zionists. @MetCC DO YOUR JOB

@TalkinTwins That's sad, but at 68.3%, Marlins fans are delusional.

The Athletic polled 11K fans about optimism this season. The Twins were dead-last (4.3%). #MNTwins owner: • promised spending & winning fans back • "Didn’t want to take sides" after ICE killings in MN • Still cutting payroll, lowballing FAs • Prioritizing debt > roster #MLB

@TwinsAlmanac In Tiant's only year with the Twins (1970), he was 7-3 in 17 starts (2 CG, 1 ShO) with a 3.40 ERA in 92.2 innings. He also hit .406 (13/32) with 4 doubles and 4 RBI.

The Twins released Luis Tiant on this date in 1971. Over seven seasons from 1972 to '78, Tiant averaged 243 innings, 17 wins, and a 5.2 WAR for the Red Sox. He had three 20-win seasons, and posted a 7.7 WAR in '74. AL ERA leader in '68 and '72. See: David Ortiz wasn't the first Red Sox all-time great the Twins released. twinsalmanac.com/march-31-1971/

@mamboitaliano__ American John Adams composed the controversial opera, "The Death of Klinghoffer" in 1991 in response to the highjacking. Critics insisted the libretto was too compassionate toward the highjackers. Adams also wrote "Doctor Atomic" about the atomic bomb, and "Nixon in China."

The Night of Sigonella, 1985: Italy Stands Up to the United States 🇮🇹🇺🇸 The story begins on October 7, 1985, when four Palestinian terrorists from the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF, a faction of the PLO) hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Egypt. Hundreds of passengers were on board, including many Americans. The hijackers demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.

🚨 Italy denied a U.S. military plane permission to land at the American base in Sicily, Sigonella But when I say Sigonella, who remembers the crazy 1985 episode with a whole night of “Mexican standoff” and a tug-of-war between Craxi and Reagan? The full story in the comments

@arenella1 Twenty-nine countries for me, mostly in Europe (18) and Caribbean (4), but also Egypt, Israel and Jordan.

Most Americans have never traveled outside the US with exception of Caribbean vacations. Unlike Europeans who visit other countries frequently, Americans lack any understanding of how significantly cultural and social norms differ from one country to another. I spent a month in

@NamethatYank Earle Combs (with a misspelled name on this card)

Name the most random Yankee that comes to mind when I say the word “outfielder”.

@CheyCab 342 W. Kellogg (St. Paul), looking like a far more desolate place than its actual location, thanks to the direction in which the photo was taken.

New alcohol free bar in the neighborhood. Just when I was thinking about taking up whiskey again for the end times.

@Matt_Pinner Reggie Jackson, whom I met outside a Tulsa radio station as I waited my turn for an interview. Chatted for about 5 minutes. Don King, with whom I shared an elevator at Bally's Las Vegas just a day before a Mike Tyson fight there. I complimented him on his exquisite suit.

Who’s the most famous person you’ve ever spoken to? Not “seen from far away” — actually talked to, even for a minute. A quick hello, a handshake, a normal conversation… and you still remember it. Who was it?

@OleTimeHardball Pretty random ...

Name a Kansas City Royals player Random is welcome

@micyoung75 @mary_dysart Ronnie Reagan’s “welfare queens driving Cadillacs” updated for the modern day.

Stephen Miller stood at a White House task force event yesterday with the Vice President and described a Somali refugee who drives a Mercedes, never works, and gets unlimited free money by lying on a government form. He called it "the system" that Vance's task force will demolish. The administration already ran this investigation. It is called Feeding Our Future — a $250 million federal nutrition fraud case out of Minnesota. The ringleader who was convicted is Aimee Bock. She is a white woman. Operation Metro Surge, the federal enforcement sweep that followed, made thousands of arrests. Zero Somali Americans were charged in connection with the fraud. Ninety-two percent of Somali Americans are United States citizens. The community Miller described — drivers of foreign cars, idle, lying on government forms — does not match the prosecution record the administration itself produced. Miller knows the record. He helped build the task force. He is not describing the fraud case. He is describing a Somali neighbor. At a White House table. With the Vice President nodding alongside him. That is a senior government official using a fabricated ethnic caricature as the face of federal enforcement policy. The Mercedes is not in the indictment. It was never in the indictment.

@RomaPete Wife and I visited on a midweek afternoon in early Feb. Got online tickets the day prior, and the line went quickly. But it was wall-to-wall people inside. Wife said, “Pickpocket’s paradise,” as we made the slow clockwise circle around the place. It was even worse at the Louvre.

Boy howdy Notre Dame is packed even at 9:30. My having become a morning person in my decrepitude is often an advantage in tourism but not today. I shudder to think what it’s like in the middle of the afternoon.

@EastEndJoe @Vegasdave59 Well, if any of them were virgins prior to their visit, they aren’t anymore.

I find this very disturbing. Who in their right mind would send their teenage daughter to Mar a Lago? Fucking idiots!!