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Mark Dundas Wood

@markdundaswood.bsky.social

Writer, arts journalist, and sometimes dramaturg--in NYC

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Yes, I for one, never assumed that Julie Newmar was a robot. But I very much need to know about the intoxicated, homicidal cat.

12.11.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

DJT woke up suddenly one night. A plaintive voice called him: "Donny...?"

A ghost? Prez thinks. Guess it's possible.

"It's Mom, Donny," the voice said.

"Mom?" Prez flipped the light switch. There, before him, grin on his face, was NYC's mayor-elect.:

"Like I said. It's Mamdani! BWAHAHA..." πŸ‘»

11.11.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At the final performance of ”Bat Boy” at City Center yesterday, the outpouring of affection for Kerry Butler was remarkable. Her performance (with Gabi Carrubba) of the enormously appealing β€œThree Bedroom House” earned thunderous & sustained applause you don’t hear every day. Absolutely thrilling.

10.11.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes. It's like they're saying, 'We'll go the full mile to ensure that people starve." State-sponsored sadism, nothing less.

09.11.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In case you hadn't noticed it 50 million times, Carol Burnett is the classiest of acts. 🌞

06.11.2025 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So refreshing to have a blast of old-fashioned hope after a year with so much grief, fear, and sadness.

We've turned a page--let's keep turning many more.
🌊🌊🌊

Midterm elections, here we come!

05.11.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Axe not what your mother has done to you…

Anybody else remember watching Lizzie Montgomery portraying Lizzie Borden in a TV movie half a century ago? (Word had it Endora was shaken.)

31.10.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thou shalt not bear false witness, Speaker Twerpo.

11.10.2025 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a despicable little man who is lying through his teeth to try to incite violence against Americans who will be peacefully assembling to protest the Trump regime’s anti-democratic rule.

10.10.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2182    πŸ” 554    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 37

The Commander in Cheat is a voracious Godzilla. The VP is just a conniving little weasel.

19.09.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No sparing (or ending) the lives of gladiators for you in the next few days, I guess. May your thumb feel better soon!

19.09.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

18.09.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 19724    πŸ” 9944    πŸ’¬ 509    πŸ“Œ 450

Grandstanding Utah governor blathers on about forgiveness without limit. Does this mean he’s changed his mind about calling for the death penalty?

Yeah, right….

12.09.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When it comes to mild expletives...why don't people say, "Oh, rats!" anymore to express exasperation or similar annoyance? This was a staple of the 1960s, along with the epithet "rat fink." But, gradually, these went away. I say welcome the pestilential rodents back to the lexicon!
πŸ€ πŸ€πŸ€

09.09.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

JFC, indeed. Maybe too much KFC?

08.09.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dear Prez T -

I was in the WC after you, &--it's true! Your sh*t DON'T stink!

It has a musky, manly aroma, redolent of piney woods, w/ notes of huckleberry. What bliss inhaling your essence!

Plz help my state fund a capitol annex. Will have a vast mural of YOU, reclining on a divan.
😍
A Minion

07.09.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing says "Peace Prize" like proclaiming a department of war.

07.09.2025 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Whenever I see, hear, or think of a man with the surname "Sununu" (no matter the given name), my mind immediately migrates to Uncle Wiggly's Bad Pipsisewah...and it always will, I'm afraid.

04.09.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I've thought of one scenario in which the world can count on Donald Trump to get things right:

Should a global crisis arise involving mislabeling of lions, rhinoceroses, and camels, dude's got it covered.

02.09.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, my 50th is where I learned that 2 of my classmates were great-grandfathers. Also, everybody left for home by about 10pm. I was apparently the only one who considered retiring by 1am as "early to bed."

28.08.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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These Vintage Girl Names From the 1960s Are Make a Major Comeback Hello, Joy!

Congrats, Marilyn Maye, on making it into this Good Housekeeping article about popular baby names!
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenti...

25.08.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The world of jazz vocals has taken a double hit with the recent passing of Sheila Jordan AND Ronny Whyte.

These fabulously gifted singers will be deeply missed. Am so grateful I was lucky enough to hear both of them weave their magic in person.
🎢

20.08.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œknew all along”?

20.08.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My friend & I were emailing back and forth this AM about Constance Towers (wasn’t everybody? 😬), and I was happy to learn she’s still w/ us at 92 (striving to live up to her name?). Seriously, if your name was β€œConstance Towers” wouldn’t you be expected to be a pillar of strengthβ€”no frivolity ever?

11.08.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The cybersphere has, for some reason, warmly embraced the erroneous idea that I'm a Pennsylvanian.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

03.08.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If given a pop quiz, how many operas could Melania Trump name? (Soap operas don’t count.)

Is the Playboy Mansion a national monument yet? Maybe name something after her there.

30.07.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

IDK. But it always throws me when a teenage or 20-something guy says β€œgosh.”

(It’s never, for some reason, β€œgolly.”)

24.07.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Attacks β€˜Past’ Supporters Upset Over Epstein Case

If there's nothing in the files that implicates Scourge, he should be elated to have their content released. His attack just makes people wonder more about what's up.

He may think his followers are sheep, but many continue to stray from the flock.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

16.07.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This may be the most disgusting and terrifying component of this reckless piece of legislation. With this, I think all the horrors in Sinclair Lewis’s novel β€œIt Can’t Happen Here” may have been trumped (so to speak) by reality.

06.07.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"We have to value what our forebears...did for us, or we’re not going to take it very seriously, and it can slip away."--David McCullough

Clarifying for Trump admin: These are not the forebears McCullough had in mind:

06.07.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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