Justin Starr
Middle school chorus teacher, composer, guitar, piano; #STEM/#STEAM, particularly Astronomy and Bugs (#TeamSpiders); Photography; Movies (#Horror!); Dog Dad; He/Him
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- Reposted by Justin StarrDecades ago, when I first started learning guitar, I picked up a really weird habit of using an alternative open G. When @urbanastronyc.bsky.social pointed it out, I was scratching my head on where I got this. Finally found the answer: Jimmy Page In Tangerine, one of the 1st songs I learned. 🎸
- Hey yall. We started to foster this lil guy a week ago and have moved to adopt. We’ve almost pinned down a name. We think he’s a lab/pit mix, and possibly others. He is the sweetest bundle of love… when he’s not in a puppy zoomie state being a razor-wire-mouthed Baby Shark 😂🦈
- Our shrine to Oscar is almost done. My parents got him that pillow many years ago. The wooden box houses his ashes. We just need one more thing… either a shadow box or a particular type of picture frame that holds a collar (leaning forwards shadow box - I’ve seen lovely pet memorials on Etsy)
- Thank you all for your kind words about the passing of my dear Oscar. It was nice to see so many familiar faces from the Twitter days who used to see pics of him regularly. I miss him terribly. The Best Boy. 🌈🐕💔
- On Sunday he seemed a perfectly healthy and normal dog until the later afternoon when he had a massive seizure. Over the next two days he deteriorated rapidly, with behavioral and neurological signs indicative of a likely brain tumor/mass.
- Thankfully we were able to bring him from the hospital on Tuesday. Though he could not walk nor stand, and his face was twitching and his breathing erratic, he became noticeably calmer when we got home. My parents were able to come to say their tear-strewn goodbyes with pets and rubs and scratches.
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View full threadMy wife cradled him in her arms through the whole procedure. He will be cremated with his favorite stuffed animal Ellie the Elephant. He took her everywhere and now he’ll be with her forever. Rest easy, my baby boy. My Best Friend. My Bud-Bud. The Best Boy. My Oscar. 🌈🐕💔
- Reposted by Justin Starrnot sure if this is in the current bluesky consciousness, but the Nuclear Block is what makes this place great. a block ends everything between you and the blocked person. it robs them if all engagement. it’s very much why the troll problem here is much more limited than the everything app.
- I’m rarely on here and I don’t know who of my old Twitter friends are still here, but at the risk of screaming into the void: We will be saying farewell to my boy Oscar today. He just turned 14 last Wednesday. It’s all very sudden. I’m absolutely devastated. He is the best boy.
- Happy New Year from New York. May your year be filled with love, joy, and good health. We face some big challenges ahead but remember to take care of yourself too: You can’t pour from an empty cup. Love to all.
- Reposted by Justin StarrOkay, here's part of my painting process for The Horsehead Nebula on an angled cup!
- I’ve decided to rewatch Attack on Titan. Just got to the opening title and sequence and I never noticed it starts with singing in German! „Sind sie das Essen? Nein, wir sind die Jäger!“ Are you (the) food? No, we are the Scouts*! 1/2
- *Jäger can also mean Hunters or Light Infantry. And of course, it’s also Eren’s last name. “Scouts” may is likely the best translation as that’s the unit they will all belong to. 2/2
- Reposted by Justin StarrYou are currently in line for Box. There is one Cat ahead of you. Thank you for waiting.
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- Reposted by Justin Starr*Werner Herzog voice* now, the Jingle Hop has begun
- Reposted by Justin StarrWhat does the perfect Christmas movie have? Snow Sitting 'round a lovely fire Hanging out on a couch with friends and getting to know them better Feeling change deep in your heart
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- Reposted by Justin StarrPart of fighting back is being both intentional, accurate, and forceful with our language. So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks? Start calling these folks pro-segregation.
- Reposted by Justin StarrDay 22 of #ArtAdventCalendar: Choosing and felling the perfect tree is a Canadian tradition! #wildlife
- I just wanted you to know that the first two episodes of season 3 were absolutely SOLID. The ending of 1 was a banger and they - correctly - played different during the credits. I cried a few times during eps 1 and 2 which means im more invested and they’re doing their job. 1/2
- Also, so far character actions are much more motivated by more than just “bc the story needs this to happen,” and the one the one character choice in ep 1 that annoyed me they actually called the character out for it ep 2 so… that’s good! Hopefully season 3 continues strongly! 2/2
- Reposted by Justin StarrOnce again I am obliged to mention that I recently worked in a school district where the policy was teachers were not to accept gifts from parents worth more than $5 lest it affect our grading.
- Reposted by Justin StarrInterviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Gandalf: I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm Interviewer: please leave
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- Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Gandalf: I’m sorry, Frodo… I was… delayed… Interviewer: Alright then, keep your secrets.
- I just watched the second season of “From” and I’m really sorry to say… I was grateful disappointed. It wasn’t a “Heroes”-level drop in quality but… it just didn’t work for me. So much unmotivated yelling, swearing, and decision-making. (I love swearing but this felt oddly forced). 1/2
- I’m going to watch season 3 but I saw some reviews saying 3 was weaker than the first two so I’m a little nervous. I LOVED season 1. And all through 2 I’m just like… what the hell are you all doing? I hope the writers aren’t pulling an Abrams-maneuver and making it up as they go along. 2/2
- Reposted by Justin StarrTea Pain just saw his first Tesla truck in person. Looks like a 12-year-old made it on Minecraft.
- CUT MY WORM IN TWO PIECES NOW I HAVE TWO LIVE WORMS - Papa Roach as a kid, probably
- Reposted by Justin Starrwhen I was a kid I heard another kid arguing about why he had to do service for others in the gurudwara and his parent was like "if you won't help others what is the point of you" and I've never forgotten that line.
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- Reposted by Justin Starrme: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk] my boss: and the other one me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
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- Reposted by Justin StarrThere is no good music streaming platform but spotify is absolutely the most evil one and also has the distinction of sounding the shittiest
- Reposted by Justin StarrIt's the 1920s, and the head of an American car company has endorsed a far right German political party. It's the 2020s, and the head of an American car company has endorsed a far right German political party.
- Reposted by Justin Starras an ex-twitter employee, I can confidently speak for us all: this hits on EVERY level
- Rewatching the 2004 Dawn of the Dead and I just wanna say, I’m glad it was the first feature film in Zakk Snyder’s catalogue. This movie would have been much worse with that extreme shallow depth of field he employed in Army of the Dead and the Rebel Moon movies. 1/3
- Also, I know actors are not the characters they play. But man it’s never NOT jarring to see Ty “Phil Dunphy” Burrell be a total douche canoe in this film. 2/3
- Also… zombie baby. It’s a little quaint now, but feel like that was a real gutsy element to include in 2004. Not sure anything like that had been done before. Damn. 3/3
- Reposted by Justin StarrPeople are still unearthing the old stories, and I'd argue that new movies and books of Christmas horror stories are in the same tradition. www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
- In the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” (1963, Pola & Wyle) there’s the lyric: “We’ll tell scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago.” Speaking as an American Jew, I feel commercialized Christmas is missing out on the ghost stories aspect. 1/2
- The tradition of sitting around a fire telling ghost stories on Christmas apparently goes back to Victorian England. Bring. It. Back. 2/2
- Reposted by Justin StarrHappy #WeevilWednesday - this broad-nosed weevil looks like it's been dipped in licorice sprinkles (zoom in). Seen on creosote at night in CA's Anza-Borrego Desert. Guessing it's in the same genus (Ophryastes) as a similar, smaller one I found 2 weeks ago in the Mojave, but not sure. #insects 🐙🌿
- Reposted by Justin Starr🇩🇪 An meine deutschsprachigen Freunde, hier ist ein toller Artikel in der Süddeutsche Zeitung von Theresa Palm, die mich über die wunderschöne und besondere Firefly Sparkle-Galaxie interviewt hat, die von JWST entdeckt wurde. ℹ️: www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/firef...
- Reposted by Justin StarrOn This Day in 1978: I married my dental hygienist, Marilou York. She cleaned my teeth & the rest... is history. #HappyAnniversary2TheLoveOfMyLife. ❤️ 🎆 🙏
- So while I’ve been ill I decided to rewatch/binge the first season of The Punisher, which I have not watched since 2017. I did not realize that David “Micro” Lieberman was Ebon Moss-Bachrach. So Jon Bernthal and Moss-Bachrach went from partners in The Punisher to best friends in The Bear (2022).
- What’s got two thumbs and body aches from having the flu This guy! 😷 👍🏻👍🏻
- Reposted by Justin Starrthe year is 2034. there are thousands of specialty accounts on twitter. stair guy. smell doctor. cutlery gal. sports them. liquor baby. chef raccoon. finally, men can no longer post any photo without being criticized.
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- @timisham.bsky.social hey man. As a choral guy, I’m a lot less familiar with the orchestral/band composers. So I asked my coworker who just came up to the middle school from the elementary school if he knew your name and he was like “I just did one of his pieces last year!” :)
- He had nothing but good things to say about your music :)
- Reposted by Justin StarrLast day! ⚠️
- Reposted by Justin Starr[bene gesserit voice] giddy up jingle horse pick up your feet
- Reposted by Justin StarrI stand by it, Elf on the Shelf is ACAB
- Reposted by Justin StarrMorpheus: You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. me (42 years old): which one is ibuprofen
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- So I did it. I submitted 4 choral pieces to one publisher (one that specializes in music for education, as 3 of them are written for middle school choir; and in church music, as the other is a sacred anthem), and my 1 concert band piece and 3 orchestra pieces to another publisher. Now… I wait. 🫠
- Reposted by Justin StarrMy favorite podcast ad right now is the one trying to sell you on moving to Ohio because so many people have had awesome careers there … and then they list people like John Glenn and Neal Armstrong who were certainly *born* in Ohio but maybe are not known for conducting their careers there.
- Reposted by Justin StarrSinging in her school choir's soprano section, my daughter just performed her first Eric Whitacre piece ("Glow"). And then she got to play some cool French horn parts when it was the concert band's turn. I'm so glad they get to do things like this! #choralmusic #schoolband
- Reposted by Justin StarrIt’s like the ruling class is just begging for more violence.
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- @rosedf.bsky.social OMG ROSE!!! HIIIII!!!!
