User talk:Floquenbeam



July music
The story is today about the first published composition by Arnold Schönberg which I was blessed to hear. Listen, and perhaps read what Alma Mahler (to-be-Mahler at the time, to be precise, who was present at the first performance) said, and yes that was too much for the Main page ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:34, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about a Bach cantata premiered 300 years ago OTD. - Did you notice that the July was taken the day when you counted the places I saw that one day? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:29, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

3 July is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, and I'm happy I had a meaningful DYK in 2021. It's also the birthday of Franz Kafka, and I uploaded pics from his family's album seen in Berlin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:30, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Libuše Domanínská, the subject of yesterday's story, would have turned 100 today, but I missed that ;) - Overnight, Tamara Milashkina became GA and Lando Bartolini went to the Main page. I made my story about his almost unbelievable career, from Luigi in Il tabarro in Philadelphia in 1968 (with a nod to Liberty) up to Calaf in Turandot in Beijing in 1999 ;) - 4 July is also the birthday of Brian Boulton who was a pioneer of in 2013. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:11, 4 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Gerda. Just returned from a mini-vacation.  Your choice of picture for July is appropriate; I was just noticing on the drive up and back from vacation that there are day lilies everywhere.  Seems like much more than last year. Getting away was nice, but as always, coming back from a vacation sucks! Floquenbeam (talk) 14:43, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I uploaded a few more, and recent day lilies, but no comes end-of-term outing of my choir. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:09, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Only on WP. I saw this, and my first gut reaction was "Gerda's choir got WP:OUTED??"  Glad to realize you meant "outing" in the normal human way, not the Wikipedian way. Floquenbeam (talk) 15:38, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Do you have a word that is not ambiguous? It was a nice hike for those who like such things, showing new aspects (for me and most) of the area around our town, followed by sausages and salad buffed in the yard of our church, outside, all in pleasant weather which is rather rare this year. Pics to come, - for now I can offer the delicious yellow mushrooms which grow in unknown abundance - probably because of that weather. - Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia, (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making), - just click on music below the day lilies. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:16, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * No need for another word; the defect is in my brain. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:56, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Found a bit more. Today's story is about her, an outstanding violinist from Georgia, which is a sad story in the end. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * What do you think about today's, first told last year, and now to match the TFA? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:37, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Nice addition to match Offenbach! --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:56, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Today I made an addition to a Mozart opera, as it is mentioned OTD, and told Dronebogus about it ;) - I saw the opera this year, at a theatre where a different opera by the same was premiered! ... and found a YT of the complete work staged in 1977 by Harry Kupfer at the Semperoper today!! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:01, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers the chamber music from two amazing concerts. - One, ending with Mozart, was in Johannisberg, and afterwards to the place where we went together, moonlight ... - pics to come. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:00, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

If I ran Wikipedia
We would have a mediation board that's just you talking people down from ledges. Perhaps Floq's Unilateral Badass Admin Response Board? -- Ponyo bons mots 23:15, 11 July 2024 (UTC)


 * WP:FUBAR, unsurprisingly, already exists for something else. But to be honest for a second, as humble and modest and unassuming as I am, I have occasionally, secretly, thought about modifying the jokey rules there into something real and turning WP:FLOQ into an actual thing.  No, really.  AN/ANI just seem so unfit for purpose. Floquenbeam (talk) 23:21, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Of course it already exists, and of course it was who crafted it. He's always been two steps ahead of me.--  Ponyo bons mots 23:28, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Haven't bantered with you in ages, but I'm being called away from the computer rather forecfully by Mrs. Floquenbeam. Some other time. Hope all's well IRL, Ponyo. Floquenbeam (talk) 23:30, 11 July 2024 (UTC)