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Kate Danley
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USA Today bestselling author. Panowski Award Winning Playwright. Needer of coffee. Wanter of cheese. Wisher I was in London. www.katedanley.com
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Kate Danley @katedanley.bsky.social · Mar 27
Where my theatre nerds at? I just started a starter pack of the theatre resources I could find on Bluesky. Let me know if I misses you!

go.bsky.app/7JhjWY3
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literally just have him open the movie with someone being like "Bond? I heard you were dead?"
"Oh, you see I had....NO TIME TO DIE"
BANNAAAA DANNNAAAAA DANANA
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
katedanley.bsky.social
There is a thread about how tough things are for the Bond writers since Bond was killed and this gentleman has figured out the only workable plot for the reboot. Someone get Hollywood on the phone! 11/10
basswakil.bsky.social Bassim El-Wakil @basswakil.bsky.social · 58m
I think they should do a new Bond called ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG introducing Bond’s son who opines endlessly about how he can’t live up to his father’s legacy for 150 minutes, with everyone agreeing with him, until he triumphantly state “I’m my own man” as the Bond theme plays for the first time
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Medicaid Work Requirements Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/medicaid-work-requirements-myth-vs-fact/
MYTH: Millions of people will lose benefits. FACT: That’s only Phase One.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
katedanley.bsky.social
I just did an interview about adapting #AgathaChristie with Theatre in the Round Players in Minneapolis!

Check it out here!

mailchi.mp/theatreinthe...
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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theonion.com
Hungover Egyptologist Just Gonna Call In Cursed Today
Hungover Egyptologist Just Gonna Call In Cursed Today
CAIRO—Admitting he was unable to face a lengthy session of indexing artifacts after drinking too much the night before, hungover Egyptologist Henry Chapman confirmed Tuesday he was just gonna call in ...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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In this week's episode of TALKBACK, Christine sits down with fellow Guild officer, Kristoffer Diaz, to talk about what it takes for a theatre writer to make a living, the nitty gritty on how writers get paid on Broadway, and keeping grounded in spite of the unpredictable nature of the theatre.
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Yay.
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
katedanley.bsky.social
My grandmother died while quoting. Now you demand we quote you for your entertainment? Your white male privilege is showing.
agoldman.bsky.social Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 1d
Please quote tweet this like you’re super mad about it
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Page from a 1960s primary school English textbook with a lovely cartoonish illustration of a red haired white girl in blue shirt looking at a cockatoo on a black perch. It is in the centre bottom and takes up about a third of the page, above is black serif text which reads Have you ever noticed? Every day we "see" things without really looking at them at all. On the way to and from school look at just one thing that you have often passed but never looked at very closely - it may be a street lamp, a small plant in a hedgerow, someone's front gate, the wall and windows of an ofice building, the balcony of a house, an object in a shop window. You are a secret service agent, and exact knowledge of this object is your password. Your life depends on it. Learn it by heart, and then describe it to the fellow agent who has to test you by your knowledge.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
katedanley.bsky.social
These are the Senate Democrats who voted to reopen the government and screw us all over. Drop them a physical postcard in the mail tomorrow, yeah?

Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, John Fetterman, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Tim Kaine, and Angus King.

#nokings
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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The committee from The Good Place arguing: “He's got a point. The fair thing for us to do is just keep on giving up more and more stuff we want, unilaterally, until this demon is finally happy.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a hit yourself in the head
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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shakespeare.lol
Thus do all traitors
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
katedanley.bsky.social
Why has no one cast Dolly Parton in "Hello, Dolly"?
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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The Louvre heist is the uplifting story of 2025, a joyous gift that just keeps on giving
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Trained Cat Hypnotizes Woman 3 panels a cat sat on a desk, next to a telephone, looking at a woman the womans head slumped forward a close up of the cats eyes
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
katedanley.bsky.social
And so begins my holiday shopping, but mostly for me.
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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When you spend all day working on things and then realize not a single one of your accomplishments was on your "to-do" list...
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
katedanley.bsky.social
Catch my love letter to #AgathaChristie in THE MURDER ON THE LINKS, opening at Theatre in the Round Players in less than two weeks!

www.theatreintheround.org/themurderont...

#theatresky #minneapolis #murdermystery #thingstodo #theatre
A golf ball about to go into the hole. Cast list: Ben Tallen, Jake Leif, Gerard Scheett, James Ruth, Bryce Bennyhoff, Stuart Naber, Hannah Graff, Megan Blakely, Megan Rowe Cast List: Carissa Wyant, Robin Gilmer, Cal Kathryn, Paige Yanny, Leo DeWolfe, Kiran Arquin, Jeremy Lostetter, Brelee Harris
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
katedanley.bsky.social
Anyone need some free books? Get 40 mysteries on your favorite retail sites (including The Secret of Seaside by yours truly.)

books.bookfunnel.com/amateursleut...

#booksky #amreading #mystery #mysterylovers
Graphic for 40 free cozy mystery books about amateur sleuths. Lots of book covers.
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Even 2,500 years ago, people loved a novelty cup! 🦞 🍷 😄

It’s suggested this Ancient Greek terracotta vessel in the shape of a lobster claw was used as a drinking horn at parties!

The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows an ancient Greek red-figure terracotta vase with a body in the shape of a lobster claw. The vase is painted with black glaze. On one side are five knobly bumps or ‘spines’, on the other side is painted a red donkey (not shown). The vessel has a vertical neck with funnel-shaped mouth and outsplayed rim. There is a strap handle from the bottom of the neck across the length of the vase which attaches just before the claw’s pincers. The inner side of the pincers is warm red terracotta. Around the handle base there is a decorative red pattern. The vessel is displayed on a pale beige fabric. Dimensions: 7 x 7.3 x 15.9 cm. On display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Met label reads: Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 460 BC. Attributed to the Class of the Seven Lobster-Claws Donkey; keras (drinking horn). Because so many aspects of Greek life depended on the sea, a vase in the shape of a lobster claw is not surprising. It is, however, exceptional and may be a variant of the askos— a bag-shaped oil container provided with a vertical mouth and strap handle. The Dionysiac iconography of the lobster claw suggests that it was a novelty item used at symposia (drinking parties).
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM