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“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

Please do! You seem a kindred spirit!

Here’s the thing, right wing yahooes. Bill Clinton isn’t the current President of the United States. But by all means, if you need to put him in jail in order to put the present occupant in the slammer, by all means, go ahead, and be quick about it! Make ‘em cell mates for all I care!

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Salute to Tom Lehrer Originally posted in 2018 on the occasion of Lehrer’s 90th birthday.  Tin foil hats off to one of the few people to have been both a show biz genius and an actual genius, Tom Lehrer (1928-202…

The terrific @travsd.bsky.social on Tom Lehrer

Coney Island Vaudeville — Coney Island USA Click here for tickets and further info - $20

One week from today, August 1, vaudeville returns to Coney Island! www.coneyisland.com/event/vaudev...

Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Connie Francis, Ozzy Osborne, Hulk Hogan, Chuck Mangione all at once? Did the roof collapse on a Bob Hope special?

What To Do This Fourth of July You surely have your own ways of observing the Fourth of July but we wanted to make you aware of some other activities happening in the NYC area beyond the usual parades, cook-outs, fireworks, and …

Thank you, @travsd.bsky.social !

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Tulsi Gabbard/ Should Keep it in Her Scabbard

NYC: if you can get to Federal Plaza near the Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall subway stops, come support Brad Lander, the latest Dem politician to be manhandled/detained by ICE for no legal reason. Zohran Mamdani is there in support of his fellow mayoral candidate. NYT's darling Cuomo nowhere in sight.

Liberal, Conservative, whatever, this is an outage no New Yorker should sit still for. The White House should rock to its foundations with the "f--k yous" of every New Yorker

New York City Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander was arrested by ICE today. Time to hit the streets again. This is an outage no New Yorker should sit still for

Sly Stone Turns 80 More crazy news: Sylvester Stewart a.k.a. Sly Stone (b.1943) turns 80 years old today. It seems a good reason to shine a spotlight on him for that reason, as does the less happy benchmark that he b…

RIP Sly Stone. My 80th birthday tribute to him from a couple of years ago here: travsd.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/s...

"What's that you say? They're showing 'The Cocoanuts' in 3-D this weekend at Coney Island USA, you say? And other cool Marx Bros programs? Oh, you DON'T say that, you just want ice water? My mistake!" (hangs up phone and goes to this link): travsd.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/d... )

May 3 is #WorldPressFreedomDay. The map is deceptive. The truth is Reporters Without Borders ranks us #57 & that's for LAST year. Next year we're sure to rank deep in the brown. Pretty shabby showing for the first country to enshrine freedom of the press into its founding documents. rsf.org/en/index

Ruth Buzzi: Why I’m Goofy for Toothy Ruthie Today is the birthday of comedienne Ruth Buzzi (1936-2025). I’ve always felt a special connection to her because she was born in the same hospital as me (Westerly Hospital, Rhode Island) and …

RIP Ruth Buzzi travsd.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/r...

Thank you!!

This happened 80 years ago today. Thoughts about once and future such happy occasions today on Travalanche (travsd dot wordpress dot com)

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Travalanche one of New York’s Top 100 Blogs : travsd.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t...

Bill Maher Isn’t the Only One Who Has Gone Over to the Dark Side This is the second time I’m felt the need to single out Bill Maher for conspicuous bad-acting. (The first was about five years ago). Now that he’s been to the White House to kiss the Ki…

Bill Maher, Traitor: travsd.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/b...

From yesterday but it’s still 100! #greatgatsby #greatneck #fscottfitzgerald

The Upcoming Revolution Re-Enactment So…the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution is coming up in just a couple of weeks. Remember? The war started at Lexington and Concord, over a year before the signing of the Declarati…

Down With All Kings: travsd.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/t...

Any one of the "11,000 global members with diverse viewpoints" who cannot condemn the physical assault of a filmmaker does not belong in the Academy. This is a woefully insufficient response, literally worse than silence.

Tariffs seem to be the only economic concept Trump learned at Wharton — and he seems to have fallen asleep in the middle of the sentence “Tariffs are bad”

Thanks to the comedians for coming through at the Kennedy Center last night. I was beginning to get worried. Okay, I'm still worried, but thanks for last night.

Cincinnattoids & those within earshot of WMKV radio: listen for me on upcoming edition of The Big Broadcast w/ Mark Magistrelli & Mike Martini (it's on every Sat. night, 89.3FM in Cincy!). Just did a great interview w/ those two show biz lovers abt the Marx Brothers, vaudeville & tv variety shows!

Primary Schumer.