She’s always been in semi-retirement. She records sometimes, but I don’t think she’s ever really toured.
Apparently, only once in 1979:
She stopped recording for a long time after her kid was born, for about a decade, then she put out Ariel and then 50 Words for Snow, so she’s at least started recording again semi-regularly.
But certainly, she can invite Big Boi up to her lovely estate to hang out for a month or so and make some music. I mean, this could save the world, right? 
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it is my dim recollection that he has reached out to her but no response
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That makes me sad and angry… it makes me sangry.
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I’m not sure what to make of that.
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I’m not certain that I completely believe it, but I am nevertheless suitably impressed.
Considering the picture, does Max want to be Janis Joplin when she grows up?
My reaction was twofold - how awesome is that kid, who clearly has a happy future totally jamming up the culture… and the school entirely overreacted to some uberweirdness.
Maybe she just has her own sweet style and I’m digging it.
Incidentally, speaking of non-conforming kiddos, when I dropped my daughter off at school, there was a boy going in (probably 4 or so) wearing a floofy skirt and pink rain boots!
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I wasn’t trying to be negative. It’s just the glasses are a dead ringer for a pair that Janis was frequently photographed in, and I can somehow picture her wearing the hat. Thought it was worth mentioning.
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No worries… It could be. It also could be that she has no idea who Joplin was?
Either way, she seems a cool kid.
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I don’t think I spend that much on bread in a year. So there’s that.
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I guess don’t click here! 
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Well if I can get paid for the bread…
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I thought it was hilarious. I hope she uses her powers for good.
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Some very expensive sandwiches.
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At an average of about $28 per slice of bread, you’re damn skippy.
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h/t to languagehat. the book is expensve, but the review is interesting:
The Sun is immensely loud from its nonstop nuclear explosions. The surface generates thousands to tens of thousands of watts of sound power for every square meter. That’s something like 10x to 100x the power flux through the speakers at a rock concert, or out the front of a police siren. Except the “speaker surface” in this case is the entire surface of the Sun, some 10,000 times larger than the surface area of Earth.
In terms of dBA, if all that leaked sound could somehow propagate to Earth… Sunlight at Earth is attenuated about 10,000 times by distance (i.e. it’s 10,000 times brighter at the surface of the Sun), so if 200 W/m2 of sound at the Sun could somehow propagate out to Earth it would yield a sound intensity of about 20 mW/m2 . 0dB is about 1pW/m2 , so that’s about 100dB. At Earth, some 150,000,000 kilometres from the sound source.
(copypasta from Reddit.com/r/AskScience)
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