TODAY AT 7PM: See The Tooles live in a festive setting!
Amy McNally
@infamousfiddler.bsky.social
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Fiddle-playing hedonistic madwoman. I play the fiddle with The Tooles, Seanan McGuire, Jack o’the Dust, and other folks! linktr.ee/infamousfiddler No Nazi bullshit please.
![[image description, Bite Sized Archie #293 - Sacred vs Slop - script: Ron Cacace - Art: Vincent Lovallo
Panel one: Jughead, wearing a blue sweater overtop a white collared shirt with black trousers and blue converse-looking sneakers, sits on a red armchair next to a bigass green book marked HISTORY, and his speech bubble reads, "Once, there was THE COMPUTER."
Panel two: Jughead gestures to a desktop computer with "putt-putt goes to the moon" on the screen, and his speech bubble reads, "The computer was sacred."
Panel 3: Jughead holds up a smartphone, brows furrowed, mouth open and downturned. The smartphone has a weird screen of a man eating spaghetti. Jughead's speech bubble reads, "This is not the computer."
Panel 4: a closer-up look at the smartphone, with Jughead pointing at it. The screen shows the spaghetti picture looking even weirder somehow with a red spiky bubble in the corner that reads, "100% Certified AI Slop*!!"
Jughead's speech bubble reads, "This is the enemy!"
at the bottom of the panel is a little yellow box that reads, "*This comic is 100% human drawn an always will be!"
the very bottom reads www.ArchieComics.com (c)2026 Archie Comics Publications, Inc]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yrzqcef7l4jshoar5k3utams/bafkreidkfjnu2nhbadqlqdzrcepdsaviaezuuey4pgjeofpckvbmckvl6u)
![A dog in a field of flowers, smiling with its tongue out and standing on its hind legs, paws forward and limp, with the inscription: YOU CAN'T SEE ME [top] I'M A FLOWER [bottom]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yrzqcef7l4jshoar5k3utams/bafkreia7d6vtzb6c4vi66p5cwlwbhk7kyp23gogtvpkosuhgmrkehds5ie)
!["...had to pause for a moment. 'As a person, I might be described as depressive-go-lucky,' she says wryly, and laughs. 'I'm not naturally a happy person. I'm good-humored and I try to find the silver-linings in things, but I'm really happiest when I'm playing.' How does the music change her? 'I'm distractible, improvisational. I embellish, harmonize, I'm fluid, graceful in a way I rarely am otherwise - even a little silly. Improv musicians are always telling little jokes to each other with their instruments.' McNally's reverence and love for her instruments are clearly seen when she plays them. There's a small smile, the slide and flutter of her fingers and a sense of excitement as she puts the bow to the strings.
At the close of the interview, I asked McNally if there was anything else she might wish to add. 'You get trained to do a lot of self promo,' she chuckled 'but if there's anything I want them to REALLY come away with, it's that music is so vitally important. It connects people in ways that nothing else can. I've been so lucky - if my mom hadn't dated a luthier, if I hadn't been able to get scholarships and if other people hadn't thought that music was important to give to children, I would be nowhere. I had no money growing up and my school system didn't have an orchestra in our high school. I'm so happy we've got the Madison Area Music Association here, whose job it is to encourage young people musically, and put instruments in their hands if necessary, like my mom did for me through a twist of fate and a lot of scholarship applications. So if you know someone who's thinking about getting into music, no matter what, it's important tot help them make that dream a reality."
McNally plays frequently around the Madison area with bands such as The Tooles, Mad City Jug Band [edit: no longer, but they're still rad], Wild Mercy, and Play it With Moxie, and upcoming events can be found at her website [edit: not currently]. As it is the fall se..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yrzqcef7l4jshoar5k3utams/bafkreieosqzwoxwebtarynj75jsjzjb5m7byn3hpgousf4tvqmjdcswrym)
![[A screengrab of a tweet by Rob Cee, @TheRobCee, originally posted at 6:10pm on May 10, 2015 - his usericon was a photo of a polar bear's head.]
Best songs that order composers to do things:
1. Rock Me Amadeus
2. Roll Over Beethoven
3. Make Me a Sandwich Brahms
4. Eat a Dick Vivaldi](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yrzqcef7l4jshoar5k3utams/bafkreietuss2m4rxulhugruxryozpughgduep5sfao6kliaaii4tyqgine)
