The Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor, D. 821, was written by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. The sonata is the only substantial composition extant today for the arpeggione (which was essentially a bowed guitar). The sonata was composed in November 1824, about a month after Schubert had returned to Vienna from his second stay in Zseliz. It has been adapted to other string instruments, especially the cello.
Martha Argerich – on piano
Mischa Maisky on cello
Enjoy, Jack
Attribution: CONGRESSMEN BLAMING EACH OTHER NEAR CAPITOL by Harley Schwadron
[Harley Schwadron is a cartoonist in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His cartoons have appeared in many major publications, including Barron’s, Harvard Business Review, Punch, Playboy, American Legion, New York Times, and Readers Digest. Many of Harley’s cartoons deal with business, politics and financial investing. He has illustrated some 50 books.]
Hopefully you will notice the trail feels a little smoother today, and you didn’t get batted away by a moody digital bouncer.
Over our 21-year run—starting out on Blogspot back in 2005, riding shotgun on The Atlantic’s servers, then hosted by Congressional Quarterly, Roll Call, The Economist, and The New York Times, before eventually setting up camp at Network Solutions—we’ve carried this community through many digital landscapes.
As we always say, we were social media literally before it had a name.
For the majority of those 11 years on Network Solutions, they were a reliable, safe home that just quietly did its job. But recent corporate mergers and private equity shakeups changed the neighborhood, trading stable infrastructure for mysterious 500 errors, stubborn firewalls, and unannounced backend surprises.
So, we packed up our entire archive yesterday—all 14-plus gigabytes of it—and relocated to a lightning-fast new server built by the folks who actually created WordPress (Pressable).
The best part? Your favorite feature—dropping photos and files right into the comments—is coming along for the ride, and it’s finally running on machinery that won’t choke when you use it.
Thanks for bearing with us through the recent hiccups. The digital plumbing is fixed, the trail is wide open, and we’re ready for whatever comes next. Pull up a chair and drop an image in the comments to break in the new floors!
Hey Trailmixers,
If you’ve noticed some weird delays, missing content, or errors when trying to interact with the site lately, I want to clear the air. It’s not your browser, and it’s not a ghost in the machine—it is entirely the fault of my current hosting provider, Network Solutions.
Here is a quick look behind the curtain at what is happening and how we are going to fix it.
Network Solutions isn’t the independent, reliable tech company it was when I moved us here many years ago. Through a series of acquisitions over the last few years, it was swallowed up by a massive private equity-backed conglomerate called Newfold Digital (formed when investment firms like Clearlake Capital merged Web.com, Endurance International Group, and Network Solutions into one giant umbrella).
As is the playbook when private equity takes over web hosting, the focus immediately shifted from customer reliability to aggressive corporate cost-cutting.
To slash their overhead, Newfold Digital recently started migrating their network of brands over to Oracle Cloud infrastructure. For boutique, independent sites like Trailmix, this forced migration has been a complete disaster. We are currently dealing with:
I refuse to let corporate penny-pinching ruin this community. Because Network Solutions can no longer provide a functional platform, I have decided to move Trailmix to a new, premium server company ASAP. I want to be completely upfront: migrating a website is never fun for any of us. Over the next week or two, there will likely be some brief downtime, weird visual glitches, or broken links while we pack up our digital boxes and move the database to a better neighborhood.
Please bear with me while I get this sorted out. I promise the end result will be a much faster, much more reliable Trailmix for all of us.
Thanks for sticking around!
The media is split on how to read the tea leaves after a night of high-profile Democratic primary defeats for the progressive wing. Mainstream outlets are framing the losses of Francesca Hong in Wisconsin and Josh Elliott in Connecticut as a sigh of relief for establishment Democrats and a repudiation of far-left policies. However, some local and progressive coverage highlights the extremely tight margins in Wisconsin, arguing that the near-miss of a democratic socialist in a critical swing state actually signals undeniable momentum for the left, even in defeat. The absurdist reality? A loss is being simultaneously spun as a “wall” for progressives and a terrifying warning sign for moderates.