Shorter Amy Alkon
Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Gavin M.
Above: Formerly respected advice columnist
- Oh yeah? Oh yeah? So it’s quote-unquote ‘racist’ for me to say that some ghetto bitch with a litter of brats deserved to get killed? What about when blacks like LaShawn Barber say things, huh? Huh?
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
Clif adds:
Bonus Shorter Amy Alkon
NiceWhite kids are getting hooked on heroin because their parents help them make clay models rather than letting the kids make the models all by themselves.
Gavin-
We already covered this one. Heh.
It’s a new post in which she responds to her critics.
It does have that smell of fresh ideas, doesn’t it?
I’ll get the physical-appearance critique ball rolling:
Wow. She looks a lot better in her Bette Midler drag.
Wow, loosen the ponytail and you might be able to bring those lips back together.
Her analysis of racism is clearly a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care. However, she does fail to cite “I’m Rubber, You’re Glue,” which may hurt her in academic circles.
Gavin- Ahh, I see. Sometimes racist screeds are tough to differentiate.
Anyway, my response here is the usual. Blacks can say things about blacks that whites cannot. And by “can,” I don’t really mean “can”…I mean “can without being labeled a ‘racist.'” So when InstaPunk or this woman or Derb or Mike S. Adams wants to rail on blacks, they’re free to. And I’m free to call them bigots, because they are.
Conversely, I am able to label my relatives all sorts of names relating to the pale color of their skin and the economic condition. LaShawn Barber can too, but she’d be a racist in doing so.
See how that works?
There’s so much to love here. So very much. Sadly she is still unable to explain how you deserve a few caps for having kids by different fathers, but I do enjoy this gem from her black friend, Barber.
“Commenters who call anyone a racist in this comment thread — Derbyshire, other commenters, etc. — will be deleted. If you don’t see your comment, that’s why. Second offense, banned. Long time readers know I don’t allow it. (Amy underline) It’s a conversation killer used to intimidate and an easy way to avoid challenging an argument. If you don’t know how to fomulate and articulate one, learn or leave.”
See, banning and deleting comments only furthers the conversation. Escpeically if those comments make one think twice about their biases.
MzNicky- How very lookist, heteronormative, fauxgressive and definitively terrible of you. That’s it, I’m voting for Fred Phelps.
From a historical perspective, the slaves were the real racists.
I spot a Ginger Kid.
Hoosier X- Nah, I like Sowelll’s argument better. Slavery wasn’t all that bad, and also, Africans enslaved like a quadrillion white people, but the media and professors never talk about that.
“Servants”! I meant to say “servants,” not slaves.
You see, the good white people of the South had to take care of the black servants because they were helpless and stupid and would freeze in the winter if left to themselves.
American slavery was just one big humanitarian project.
And the servants were a bunch of ingrates! Can you believe it! After slavery – I mean servitude – instilled Frederick Douglass with the disipline his people need to learn how to read and write and to talk like a white person, he traveled around the North using the powers of speech provided by the Southern lifestyle to insult and criticize the very system that had made it possible for him to get such a grand education!
The nerve!
Aw, you just liked it because the La Shawn Barber post she linked to is all “Yeah Dawn Eden, woo woo woo.”
Wow, it really struck a nerve with her, didn’t it?
What she doesn’t realize is that there are ways to broach the subject without using dog-whistle words that make people think you’re just a racist bitch.
What she doesn’t realize is that she could have simply apologized for having all the sensitivity of a cinder block and using such a pathetically poor choice of words, and moved on to proposing some actual steps we as a society can take to deal with the problem, or showed some sensitivity to the plight of an undereducated, pathetically poor, product of ghetto life.
But noooooo… she had to get all defensive ‘n’ shit about her “blame the victim” essay. Sure, there’s plenty of Black folks who declare that the Black community needs to foster more responsibility within their own society, Barak Obama among them (I’m surprised she didn’t reference his Father’s Day address.) And one of the major proponents of such an idea is Louis Farrakhan, though I doubt she’d like to give him the credit for such proclamations as, “Put down your drugs and pick up your books, put down your guns and pick up your children!” at the Million Man March.
But she acts as if all the poor woman had to do is put on her coat, pack up her six children and walk out the door and go… where? Oh, right… she should have never hooked up with drug dealer/daddy #1 in the first place. She should have packed up herself and gone… where? To her urban ghetto public school with the cracked walls and flooded toilets and uncredentialed teachers with no textbooks? To a community college she couldn’t afford, even if there was one she could get to with no car or money for even a bus fare? She should ignore the fact that the only men in her neighborhood with money she’s ever known are all drug dealers?
No, what’s important is that we assign blame and use the cleansing power of guilt to make it all better. Yeah, that’ll work…
She also fails to note the carefully parsed distinction between saying “women in the black community who squeeze out litters of fatherless children” and saying “black women …. having babies with several different men without being married to any of them.”
Historical note:
That bit about Frederick Douglass is taken from genuine Southern commentary. I saw it in a Mississippi newspaper from the 1840s when I was working on my master’s thesis.
Why is it that people who want to write about how much they hate black people still don’t want to be called “racist”? I mean, if you want to say and do racist things, why is it so much worse to “be” a racist?
why is it so much worse to “be” a racist?
There are certain words you shouldn’t use towards certain people because they really hurt.
Gerald, I believe the condition you refer to is called Gingervitis.
I wonder if the drapes match the carpet.
Hello!!
It’s true; we’re total dicks around here.
Sowell is such a douche. The idea that history professors “never” mention any other form of slavery except American slavery is rubbish.
I will admit that classes on American history do tend to focus on slavery in America … where there wasn’t very much of the blacks enslaving whites.
But I have never been in a history class – as a student or as a teaching assistant – where there was no discussion of the larger slave trade, and Sowell’s columns on slavery and the way it is taught are the number one reason why I have so little regard for his opinions on anything. I wrote a paper on slavery historiography and my thesis – on Mississippi newspapers to 1860 – gives me pretty good cred here, and Sowell is either clueless, senile or shamefully dishonest, or – most likely – a particularly unattractive combination of the three.
You know, I’ll stop thinking this white woman is a racist as soon as she writes a column about how the “Jon & Kate Plus 8” woman deserves to be shot by the police for having her “litter” with a guy who doesn’t hold down a real job.
Because you’re the real racist?
Did I win? Did I guess the correct wingnut answer?
Wingers want to behave like bigots (a) because they are children who are aware that such doucheclownery irritates LIEbruls, and (b) because they’re fucking bigots.
However, they have learned that the majority of people tend to be dubious of bigots. Most of us understand that if your agenda is motivated by rank dislike of people purely because of their skin color, you are not a credible person. So they speak in code. That is the key. Wingers must project their buffoonery as “credible” in order to succeed.
But, dude, I still stand by my prediction that by October they’ll be calling Barack and Michelle n***ers and whining about how everyone else is the racist for calling them out.
I liked her better when her hair was green and she wore purple suits. At least then, you kinda expected the crazy.
Can anyone understand WTF she’s talking about when she says this:
“I suspect the reason you don’t see black leaders speaking out is that they’d lose their standing (and income) from the black community. I speak out at my peril against Islamism, especially, because I think it’s the right thing to do. A pity we don’t see many black leaders following my lead about problems in their own community. And they’re not going to end up dead for doing it, but they might need to get a second job.”
Did someone issue a fatwa against her or is this classic wingnuttery?
I wonder if the drapes match the carpet.
Hello!!
There’s not enough gin in all of the gin joints in the world for me to seek out that answer.
Did someone issue a fatwa against her or is this classic wingnuttery?
I’m guessing classic wingnuttery, in the “Empire State Building = Front Lines of the War on Terra” subspecies.
That bonus Amy really helped me sort out some childhood issues . I always wondered why I wanted to get fucked up and numb after watching The Blob on Gigglesnort Hotel when I was 7.
It’s all because I wasn’t the one shaping him like a mountainside and placing cardboard googly eyes on him.
Today I see the world with new eyes.
Re: Urban Ghetto public school
Lima, Ohio is a town of 40,000. Not that smaller-town public schools can’t be shitholes, too.
El Cid:
I actually read an interesting commentary about the modern associations people have with “racist”. Michael Richards, after his incident, said “what’s really strange is that I’m not a racist“. In the modern pop-culture vernacular, “racists” are people who wear white hoods, or at least sound like Archie Bunker. They’re “other people”, “bad people” who turn firehoses on kids, or block entrances to schools. “Racists” are definitely bad people, but in the minds of folks like Amy Alkon, you have to take some kind of action (burning crosses, attending Stormfront meetings, etc.) in order to be ‘racist’.
But if all you do is say racist things, thats totally different in the minds of Alkon, Derb, etc.
Re: Bonus Shorter Amy Alkon
Bobby, did your parents help you with that white horse?
Actually, I think this picture is more likable. It doesn’t give off Drag Queen Barbie vibes like the other one.
Cam said,
August 14, 2008 at 19:31
.
Did someone issue a fatwa against her or is this classic wingnuttery?
We are the Victims
We are the Victims
No time for Loosers
‘Cause We are the Victims – Of The World!
Amy Alkon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Amy Alkon, also known as the Advice Goddess, writes an advice column, Ask the Advice Goddess, which is published in more than 100 newspapers within North America.
For many years, Alkon worked on the streets of New York City as one of the three “advice ladies” [1]. She co-authored a book, Free Advice – The Advice Ladies on Love, Dating, Sex, and Relationships with them. Before billing herself as the “advice goddess”, Alkon wrote Ask Amy Alkon, an advice column published solely in the New York Daily News.
[edit] Campaigns
In her daily life, and in her online blog[2], Alkon campaigns against SUVs [3], calling them a compensation for a tiny penis.
She also campaigns against what she considers bad parenting, although she has chosen to not have children. Other regular targets are inconsiderate cellphone users, and copyright violators. She campaigns in favor of good food and vacations in Paris.
Amy Alkon is a staunch atheist. She considers the eradication of the “god delusion” to be an important goal for the betterment of society. She has stated that not only religion but the personal expression of any spiritual notion, not purely grounded in science and observable phenomena should be treated as manifestations of mental illness. Alkon maintains that the benefits of society often attributed to religion and innate human spirituality are better accounted for by the forces of evolution. According to Alkon, since people are social animals, ridicule and derision are effective and appropriate means by which to coach people toward abandoning their faith and pursuing a secular lifestyle.
She has been accused of being a “rape apologist” [4] after she said about date rape, “I call [it] bad judgment” on the part of the woman.
Amy Alkon, also known as the Advice Goddess, writes an advice column, Ask the Advice Goddess, which is published in more than 100 newspapers within North America.
Why that’s almost 2 per state! And it looks like the Creative Loafing chain accounts for much of that.
I think she has a point and it’s clear what the solution is. Shoot all the white parents instead. Then they won’t be around to put so much pressure on their kids. The removal of the pressure eliminates entirely the white kids’ drug use. With no reliable customer base, the drug-dealing black mothers will have to find different work, most likely as day laborers and agricultural workers — thus eliminating the need for illegal immigrants. Whites’ hardscrabble life as orphans and blacks’ return to forced servitude will make them all realize how great the Antebellum South was and should be again, how terrible it is that women have choices in life, and how capital gains taxes are way too high. And Ronald Reagan will then be able to return to the Earth and take the wealthiest 1% up to his mansion in Heaven (Jesus stays in the chauffeur’s room out back).
Oh yeah? Oh yeah? So it’s quote-unquote ‘racist’ for me to say that some ghetto bitch with a litter of brats deserved to get killed? What about when blacks like LaShawn Barber say things, huh? Huh?
Let me put it this way, Amy, and I say this as one of the whitest white men you’d ever meet:
Ya ain’ as ghetta as ya think, a’ight?
Of course there is an interesting addendum that seems to keep disappearing from the wikipedia entry on ole Amy.
Holy cow, and the Return of Bruce!!!!
Bruce, man, welcome back.
No. I’m not going to go back over there and join battle again. I feel like I did a long ugly tour already, and I didn’t post nearly as much as Righteous Bubba and Not Even An MBA did. They are true heroes and valiant knights for the effort they put into trying to bring an epiphany, but those folks over there are epiphany-proof.
Nope, not gonna do it. I’m going to go do laundry now, and when I come back, I’m going to read the other posts, and avoid this one like the plague. Yep.
I don’t think this Bruce is who you think it is, but what the hell, thanks.
Apparently this woman is unable to see the crassness of criticizing the personal history of someone who was murdered by the police.
I think what really bothers me about her is that she and I have some things in common: I hate SUVs with the red hot heat of a thousand suns, I’m an atheist, although not particularly militant, and I’m all in favor of using birth control and not having a lot of kids you can’t afford. There’s where we break down. She seems to have reached most of her conclusions from a basis of meanness and spite. Almost everything she does is aimed at blaming anyone who has anything bad happen to them and to shriek at them that it is their own damned fault. No mitigating circumstances are to be considered. At all.
I really got the impression that she, personally, is an equal opportunity hater. I’m not sure she hates blacks any more than she hates whites. She’s just a person who by her own admission was tortured and bullied in school and is trying to get revenge on the mean kids by getting revenge on everyone. She certainly never gained any empathy from her experiences.
Some of her commenters are clearly all-out enthusiastic racists who would be at home at V-dork or other racist sites. I’m surprised her site doesn’t attract that crowd. Maybe they go over there and then leave when they find out she’s Jewish. I wonder if their heads explode. I hope so.
Laundry now.
Figures.
Bruce said he “wouldn’t be back.” I guess he’s really not coming back.
Well, g’day new Bruce.
That’s what the Brits call a Croydon facelift.
Hey! Bruce!
Good to see you!
We missed you.
I don’t think this Bruce is who you think it is, but what the hell, thanks.
That’s going to cause a little confusion. Mind if we call you “Bruce” to keep it clear?
Well, SOMEone had to go there!
Look at that mouth.
I ain’t putting nothing in there.
No way.
Surprising Amy didn’t cite Armstrong Williams as well.
“Racists” are definitely bad people, but in the minds of folks like Amy Alkon, you have to take some kind of action (burning crosses, attending Stormfront meetings, etc.) in order to be ‘racist’.
Personally I tend to reserve “racist” for the ‘active’ ones and go with “bigoted” or “prejudiced” for the passive-aggressive ones like ol’ Amy.
Then again, I take the distinctions between crackers, hillybillies, white trash, etc. seriously so YMMV.
You know, the Man takes everything: the good schools, the good jobs, the good neighborhoods that aren’t downwind from the refinery, but one they haven’t figured out how to take is a woman’s ability to bear children she can love with all her heart and who will love her with all their hearts in return. That’s why they hate poor black mothers so much.
Why that’s almost 2 per state! And it looks like the Creative Loafing chain accounts for much of that.
That’s who she is? Damn. I’ve read her column more than once. Sometimes she gives decent advice.
Well, better than Cary Tennis, for whatever that’s worth.
(note: I think WordPress might be fucking with me, so I apologize if you see this more than once)
So wait…she’s a staunch atheist in the US who thinks the ISLAMISTS are the ones she has to fear?
I wonder if the drapes match the carpet.
Well, the lipstick matches the dress, if that counts.
“Racists” are definitely bad people, but in the minds of folks like Amy Alkon, you have to take some kind of action (burning crosses, attending Stormfront meetings, etc.) in order to be ‘racist’.
Bingo. Lots of Our Fellow Americans seem to think there’s some sort of Not A Racist bingo card they have to keep filled. “Well, I don’t say ‘nigger’, I like Ray Charles and think Halle Barry’s hot. Bingo! Not a racist!” and then they can go off and bemoan the state of hip-hop or irresponsible black parents or whatever.
Then again, I take the distinctions between crackers, hillybillies, white trash, etc. seriously so YMMV.
Speaking as a borderline white trash stump jumper, why?
And Creative Loafing isn’t always picking about who they print. Hollis Gillespie, Bob Barr and me, fer instance.
Dear Amy:
Everything about you is shit.
Wuv,
Reality.
PS: Jesus Christ.
I saw it in a Mississippi newspaper from the 1840s when I was working on my master’s thesis.
Damn, Hoosier, you’re old.
actor212 said…
That’s going to cause a little confusion. Mind if we call you “Bruce” to keep it clear?
Ohhkay.
I come for the snark and stay for the Monty Python…
“This is not a column for reading. This is a column for laying down and avoiding. Eight paragraphs of this and you’re *really* finished.”
Bruce: It’s an old inside joke around this wacky place regarding another Bruce who was justifiably and roundly ridiculed for his dumbassery, then he flounced out in a huff vowing never to return. Pay these kids no mind.
The whole of our beloved Bruce’s contribution:
Bruce said,
September 2, 2007 at 21:52
Just surfed into this web site.
Wont be back.
Demostrate with data & FACTS that Global warming is caused by man, not simply your belief.
Happen to know, that it is Freakin Impossible to prove the earth is not simply in a climatic cycle.
Earth gets cold, Earth gets hot.
Have a great day.
And whenever we would have a particularly annoying, unwelcome troll, like Kevin or Saul or Bastion Booger loitering on the site with their tedious, repetitive, uninspired stupidity, someone would eventually type:
I miss Bruce.
What does a regular God-fearing American have to do to be thought of as annoying by you pretentious Sondheim-listening bicyclists?
Saying anything good about brussell sprouts usually works.
Come to think of it, in the field of culinary annoyance, the cilantrolls are even more irritating.
Hey, brussels sprouts are delicious! Leave them in the fridge for a week, then peel off any yellowed leaves. The cold mimics the touch of frost that sweetens them. The best sprouts I ever had were simply sliced, then grilled with butter. They’re also delish with bacon and/or a splash of balsamic vinegar. Oh, sorry, this isn’t a cooking thread.
Oh, sorry, this isn’t a cooking thread.
IT CERTAINLY IS FUCKING NOT.
Note Malaclypse’s prescience:
FYWP!
The real deal is, all you gotta do with sprouts is cut ’em in half, lightly toss them with a little olive oil, and lay ’em down in a hot pan with a tablespoon or so of water. Put the lid on for a couple minutes, then take it off and let ’em get a bit dry.
Put the lid on for a couple minutes, then take it off and let ‘em get a bit dry.
Feed to your worst enemy.
Random thoughts:
*Why does WordPress hate Righteous Bubba?
*Nascar McHeartland betrays herself by acknowledging a passing acquaintance with olive oil. Every true Heart- and Southland cook knows the only way to prepare vegetables is to boil them to death for hours with a nasty chunk of fatback in the pot.
*To counter Smut Clyde’s contention, I suggest that the mere mention of the ever-irritating subject of vegetarianism arouses even the most dedicated liebrul’s inner throwback. Okay, I own up to being more than a little supercilious about the brutal and senseless slaughter of animals DAMMIT! I mean, I’m sorry I was such a self-righteous jackbag on a previous thread about the whole thing. On the other hand, wow, did it bring the latent he-manliness out of the woodwork. Too much red meat will do that.
the only way to prepare vegetables is to boil them to death for hours with a nasty chunk of fatback in the pot.
The best thing about this recipe is that it also works for brewing coffee. Or tea.
*Why does WordPress hate Righteous Bubba?
Told you. Guitar pedals.
*Why does WordPress hate Righteous Bubba?
It’s crowd behaviour.
*To counter Smut Clyde’s contention, I suggest that the mere mention of the ever-irritating subject of vegetarianism arouses even the most dedicated liebrul’s inner throwback.
Apart from personal weakness I have a somewhat strange relationship with the vegetarian argument (which I think is strong to the point of personal embarrassment). My daughter is one of those funny kids who will hear “retard” in the schoolyard this year (she’s more on the Aspergery side so she’s a super-genius in areas) and part of her deal is gagging on anything not entirely bland. As a result of her limited diet she’s somewhat protein-deficient and weak; her muscle-tone is low and she can’t do things like open bathroom doors. I have been working like a dog to get her to eat animal products because she needs that protein; the tofu and beans and other options don’t cut it if they make it past her sensitivities; she needs more.
So: she will lately eat a bland and tasteless cheeseburger or moderately non-crappy hotdogs if they have a lot of ketchup, and that is what she shall have in between trips up and down flights of stairs.
Told you. Guitar pedals.
I told my bass player to go down a major fifth and after that he couldn’t play at all.
RB: Like regional agrarian necessity, health difficulties which nothing other than meatish products will address is one of the issues which I failed to allow for in my previous jeremiad. His Holiness teh Dalai Lama his own self eats meat because of health need. I again regret my short-sightedness.
Totally off-topic, as no one took my bait and observed that Ms. Alkon in this posted image resembles a cross between Cate Blanchett and Cloris Leachman: Before I quit my crappy PR university job on Monday, I managed to take advantage of my employee status and purchase at the Music School’s annual auction an actually affordable (for me) baby grand piano, thus fulfilling one of my lifelong material desires. Now I could use guidance from you musical types as to finding good sheet music. Any suggestions?
Holy fucking shit do I love semicolons; they are great.
part of her deal is gagging on anything not entirely bland.
It sounds like your daughter’s case is more severe but boy can I relate to that. Although I tend to be very carnophiliac, so I’ve always been…big, ever since I was a kid, but my rather narrow diet selection (meat, bread, pasta, that kind of thing) has confounded most people who meet me. I can’t really explain it—it’s just one of those things about me.
(I have a diagnosis of mild Asperger’s)
I’m sorry, but the suggestion is that the best way to make vegetables more palatable is to fry them in oil? Reminds me of something my departed grandfather loved to say: “I’d eat ball bearings if you put enough Kool-Whip on ’em!”
Holy fucking shit do I love semicolons; they are great.
My excuse for eating meat products (i.e. the black pudding) is to replace the haemoglobin I lose through my ulcerated semicolon.
So, if I’m reading that second column correctly, parents in the 90s put huge, unbearable pressure to succeed on their offspring by utterly refusing to put any pressure on them whatsoever.
Okay.
It almost reads like an experiment to see if you can get people to buy a completely self-contradictory argument.
Don’t go there, Christopher. Next thing, you’ll be wondering why anyone would ask for advice on child-raising from someone who is not a parent; and next thing you know, you’ll be pounding your head on the keyboard while uttering strange noises of anger and frustration, like the sound-effects from a Don Martin cartoon.
Matt T. asked:
Speaking as a borderline white trash stump jumper, why?
Only in the most pedantic etymological sense possible… in real life I could give a shit.
Speaking as a borderline white trash stump jumper, why?
Also, stump jumper? Shit, it appears I left the South too quickly to get all the lingo down…
I told my bass player to go down a major fifth and after that he couldn’t play at all.
*Shrugs* What? Don’t look at me to defend bass players. Zappa probably had the right idea.
Matt T. said,
Speaking as a borderline white trash stump jumper, why?
Good lord, Matt, you’re a plough?
(Note: this was invented in mine own state of South Australia, although it happened a bit before my time).
Also, and apropos of nothing, Luschka The Incredibly Spoiled Burmese has just returned from the vet (again), having had a whole buncha teeth removed (again). She’s feeling a bit sorry for herself, but at least she’s alive (yay! When they get to be that old, it’s a worry). She shall hereinafter be referred to as Old Miss Gummy, I suspect.
Oh, and g’day, Bruce. Unlike others here, I am entitled to say this, being as how I’m an Aussie (also a Monty Python fan, but then, isn’t everyone? At least, everyone who’s anyone).
With tasteful use of Malaclypse’s precognition talents I have drawn Amy into the previous Amy thread.
I guess La Alkon didn’t discover this thread.
Amy seemed a trifle overwrought. She could use some relaxation therapy.
I posted a link over there to this one when a particular dope seemed to imply that because she was taking white people to task (ably summed up by Clif) then it must necessarily follow that poo poo on you.
She should stick around Sadly for a while. She might learn something. Well, probably not, but it would be fun to watch the Sadlies show her how it’s done.
congratulations, mznicky! i’ve been pretty happy with the piano books at powells.com. what sort of music are you looking for in particular?
[…] learned much from Amy Alkon these past few days that is startling, perverse and downright hi-larious — starting with the notion that poor black women who get shot and […]
I’m starting to think that you guys are ignoring me.
To be fair, I have been without internet access for four days (on a canoe trip) and posting in a three day old thread migh not be the best place to bring it up. Anyways, I was battling it out there with the wingnuts all by myself for a while, until it became more important to donate blood to mosquitos.
To be fair, I was battling it out over there for fucking days.
I’m starting to think that you guys are ignoring me.
To be fair, I have been without internet access for four days (on a canoe trip) and posting in a three day old thread might not be the best place to bring it up. Anyways, I was battling it out there with the wingnuts all by myself for a while, until it became more important to donate blood to mosquitos.
To be fair, I was battling it out over there for fucking days.
MzNicky – http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
Free public domain classical sheet music. Reams of it. Just click on a composer and look through it — note that even things like symphonies often include piano versions here. More stuff coming on line all the time (but note that [B] after a title means it’s not up there right now because of a rights issue). Scan quality ranges from wonky to absolutely pristine. I’ve been working on Faure’s “Sicilienne” from here, after years of looking for a solo piano version.
[…] The Sadly, No! folks have rightly ridiculed the delightful Ms. Alkon for her racist ranting [1] [2] [3] and now are subject to her wrath. My […]
“Is it racist if-” YES.
This has been another edition of.