David Levy
@itsdlevy.me
Middle-aged gay man.
Comms at Actors’ Equity Association (@actorsequity.bsky.social)
Cohost of Muppeturgy (@muppeturgy.com)
Stamford, CT
(he/him/his)
Comms at Actors’ Equity Association (@actorsequity.bsky.social)
Cohost of Muppeturgy (@muppeturgy.com)
Stamford, CT
(he/him/his)
A weird thing about doing a Muppet Show podcast for four years is that once upon a time, I'd watch Florence Henderson sing "Elusive Butterfly" with subtle Muppet butterflies and think "what a waste" and now I would kill for The Muppets to produce this sort of thing again.
youtu.be/z8FJjGFJb8c?...
youtu.be/z8FJjGFJb8c?...
Muppet Songs: Florence Henderson - Elusive Butterfly
YouTube video by Muppet Songs
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A weird thing about doing a Muppet Show podcast for four years is that once upon a time, I'd watch Florence Henderson sing "Elusive Butterfly" with subtle Muppet butterflies and think "what a waste" and now I would kill for The Muppets to produce this sort of thing again.
youtu.be/z8FJjGFJb8c?...
youtu.be/z8FJjGFJb8c?...
Have I had a week-long stomach bug or have I just not quite polished off the Halloween candy yet?
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Have I had a week-long stomach bug or have I just not quite polished off the Halloween candy yet?
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Hey, this is great! We owe it to ourselves to celebrate every victory!
That doesn’t mean the Roberts court hasn’t earned every ounce of criticism and pushback from the immense amount of pain they’ve visited upon a majority of American citizens falsely perceived to be in the margins of society.
That doesn’t mean the Roberts court hasn’t earned every ounce of criticism and pushback from the immense amount of pain they’ve visited upon a majority of American citizens falsely perceived to be in the margins of society.
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hey, this is great! We owe it to ourselves to celebrate every victory!
That doesn’t mean the Roberts court hasn’t earned every ounce of criticism and pushback from the immense amount of pain they’ve visited upon a majority of American citizens falsely perceived to be in the margins of society.
That doesn’t mean the Roberts court hasn’t earned every ounce of criticism and pushback from the immense amount of pain they’ve visited upon a majority of American citizens falsely perceived to be in the margins of society.
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Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE! Now is the time to tell everyone in your life to STOP BUYING Starbucks.
www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...
www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE! Now is the time to tell everyone in your life to STOP BUYING Starbucks.
www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...
www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...
For Marie Dressler's birthday today, and in honor of A Chorus Year, here's a feature about her crucial role in founding Chorus Equity Association and winning Actors' Equity Association's first strike in 1919, written by Gabriela Geselowitz: www.actorsequity.org/news/equityn...
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For Marie Dressler's birthday today, and in honor of A Chorus Year, here's a feature about her crucial role in founding Chorus Equity Association and winning Actors' Equity Association's first strike in 1919, written by Gabriela Geselowitz: www.actorsequity.org/news/equityn...
Why did Netflix call it “Death By Lightning” when “Garfield & Friends” was right there?
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Why did Netflix call it “Death By Lightning” when “Garfield & Friends” was right there?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year*.
* Our seasonal Dairy Queen is still open but they have Christmas flavors like “holiday nog” shakes and peppermint bark Blizzards.
* Our seasonal Dairy Queen is still open but they have Christmas flavors like “holiday nog” shakes and peppermint bark Blizzards.
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year*.
* Our seasonal Dairy Queen is still open but they have Christmas flavors like “holiday nog” shakes and peppermint bark Blizzards.
* Our seasonal Dairy Queen is still open but they have Christmas flavors like “holiday nog” shakes and peppermint bark Blizzards.
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"6-7"?! Boy I say boy you gen alpha kids cant be doin' that! Your signifiers need signs boy! You've laid a rhetorical claim to an empty space son! You're creatin' a nihilistic dialectic! Your broccoli hairs obfuscatin' some much needed communication! Find some MEANIN', kid!
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"6-7"?! Boy I say boy you gen alpha kids cant be doin' that! Your signifiers need signs boy! You've laid a rhetorical claim to an empty space son! You're creatin' a nihilistic dialectic! Your broccoli hairs obfuscatin' some much needed communication! Find some MEANIN', kid!
oldest selfie on your phone
this one is circa 2000, possibly the first true selfie I ever took, when mirror photos were a meme going around the blogosphere
this one is circa 2000, possibly the first true selfie I ever took, when mirror photos were a meme going around the blogosphere
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
oldest selfie on your phone
this one is circa 2000, possibly the first true selfie I ever took, when mirror photos were a meme going around the blogosphere
this one is circa 2000, possibly the first true selfie I ever took, when mirror photos were a meme going around the blogosphere
Rob Lake’s Broadway show opened on Thursday. Why have there been no reviews?
November 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Rob Lake’s Broadway show opened on Thursday. Why have there been no reviews?
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It’s a bit of a new category (2012), so not in this iteration (I’m guessing we don’t count Shallow…)! But a precursor Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals gave a nod to Superstar on the original JCS cast album.
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It’s a bit of a new category (2012), so not in this iteration (I’m guessing we don’t count Shallow…)! But a precursor Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals gave a nod to Superstar on the original JCS cast album.
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I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
what did ruth mean when she said her steakhouse was "chris"
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
Looking at the Grammy noms now, and Defying Gravity from the Wicked Soundtrack is nominated under Best Pop Duo/Group Performance... has that ever happened for a showtune from a soundtrack or cast album before?
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Looking at the Grammy noms now, and Defying Gravity from the Wicked Soundtrack is nominated under Best Pop Duo/Group Performance... has that ever happened for a showtune from a soundtrack or cast album before?
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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says the state will fully fund SNAP through the month of November. Says money will reach cards within the next few days.
"I can't wait any longer" on the federal government to act.
"I can't wait any longer" on the federal government to act.
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says the state will fully fund SNAP through the month of November. Says money will reach cards within the next few days.
"I can't wait any longer" on the federal government to act.
"I can't wait any longer" on the federal government to act.
Once again, the Supreme Court disgusts me by putting our most vulnerable neighbors even more at risk.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Once again, the Supreme Court disgusts me by putting our most vulnerable neighbors even more at risk.
Broke the seal on Christmas music for this year because I learned that Laufey put out a Christmas EP. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
A Very Laufey Holiday - Album by Laufey
Listen to A Very Laufey Holiday by Laufey on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Broke the seal on Christmas music for this year because I learned that Laufey put out a Christmas EP. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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You've doubtlessly heard the news that Cole Escola is writing a Miss Piggy movie. We at ToughPigs think this could be a very exciting thing because of Piggy's historical connections to drag and queerness: www.toughpigs.com/miss-piggy-m...
Some Thoughts on the Miss Piggy Movie - ToughPigs
Miss Piggy and Cole Escola, making a movie together? We've got some thoughts about why that makes sense.
www.toughpigs.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
You've doubtlessly heard the news that Cole Escola is writing a Miss Piggy movie. We at ToughPigs think this could be a very exciting thing because of Piggy's historical connections to drag and queerness: www.toughpigs.com/miss-piggy-m...
This is behind the paywall to protect them from the accusations surely coming based on their consistent mispronunciation of a candidate’s last name. (Curtis Sliwa)
This month's premium episode is the latest entry in our coverage of Eric Adams, from Trump dropping his charges to the collapse of his mayoral campaign to his ex who made an AI-generated trailer for her book about their whirlwind romance.
Eric Adams: The Final Chapter | If Books Could Kill
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November 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is behind the paywall to protect them from the accusations surely coming based on their consistent mispronunciation of a candidate’s last name. (Curtis Sliwa)
Now that we have made it past the election, we can finally turn our attention to more pressing matters, like debating whether Barbara Cook or Rosemary Clooney had the more artistically thrilling career reinvention as a cabaret chanteuse.
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Now that we have made it past the election, we can finally turn our attention to more pressing matters, like debating whether Barbara Cook or Rosemary Clooney had the more artistically thrilling career reinvention as a cabaret chanteuse.
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Put Grammarly into the recycling bin, emptied bin. Checked I'm not logged into Grammarly on the web.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Put Grammarly into the recycling bin, emptied bin. Checked I'm not logged into Grammarly on the web.
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It's OFFICIAL: New York is a union town, and bosses everywhere are on notice!
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's OFFICIAL: New York is a union town, and bosses everywhere are on notice!
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We are the union actors, dancers, singers, musicians, stage managers, and behind-the-scenes workers who earn a living at the Kennedy Center. We are proud members of @actorsequity.bsky.social, @afm-union.bsky.social, @weareagma.bsky.social, and @iatse.bsky.social.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We are the union actors, dancers, singers, musicians, stage managers, and behind-the-scenes workers who earn a living at the Kennedy Center. We are proud members of @actorsequity.bsky.social, @afm-union.bsky.social, @weareagma.bsky.social, and @iatse.bsky.social.
We are getting so far into “the world was made for me” territory that I fear the inevitable “I am but dust and ashes” correction.
Jennifer Lawrence reveals she and Emma Stone are producing a ‘MISS PIGGY’ film with Cole Escola writing the script.
When asked if she and Emma will appear in it, she said, “I think so, we have to.”
(via podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/l...)
When asked if she and Emma will appear in it, she said, “I think so, we have to.”
(via podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/l...)
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We are getting so far into “the world was made for me” territory that I fear the inevitable “I am but dust and ashes” correction.
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Mamdani reiterates his support for trans folks, his determination to fight "the scourge of antisemitism," and his pledge to fight Islamophobia--and throws a punch at the billionaire-funded campaign of lies against him. "In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light." This is a SPEECH.
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Mamdani reiterates his support for trans folks, his determination to fight "the scourge of antisemitism," and his pledge to fight Islamophobia--and throws a punch at the billionaire-funded campaign of lies against him. "In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light." This is a SPEECH.