Mark Dundas Wood
@markdundaswood.bsky.social
Writer, arts journalist, and sometimes dramaturg--in NYC
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..." 👻
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..." 👻
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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..." 👻
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..." 👻
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 “Three Bedroom House” earned thunderous & sustained applause you don’t hear every day. Absolutely thrilling.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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 “Three Bedroom House” earned thunderous & sustained applause you don’t hear every day. Absolutely thrilling.
In case you hadn't noticed it 50 million times, Carol Burnett is the classiest of acts. 🌞
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
In case you hadn't noticed it 50 million times, Carol Burnett is the classiest of acts. 🌞
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!
We've turned a page--let's keep turning many more.
🌊🌊🌊
Midterm elections, here we come!
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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!
We've turned a page--let's keep turning many more.
🌊🌊🌊
Midterm elections, here we come!
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.)
Anybody else remember watching Lizzie Montgomery portraying Lizzie Borden in a TV movie half a century ago? (Word had it Endora was shaken.)
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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.)
Anybody else remember watching Lizzie Montgomery portraying Lizzie Borden in a TV movie half a century ago? (Word had it Endora was shaken.)
Thou shalt not bear false witness, Speaker Twerpo.
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.
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
October 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Thou shalt not bear false witness, Speaker Twerpo.
Reposted by Mark Dundas Wood
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.
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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.
Reposted by Mark Dundas Wood
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/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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….
Yeah, right….
September 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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….
Yeah, right….
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!
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September 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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!
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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
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
September 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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
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
Nothing says "Peace Prize" like proclaiming a department of war.
September 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Nothing says "Peace Prize" like proclaiming a department of war.
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.
September 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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.
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.
Should a global crisis arise involving mislabeling of lions, rhinoceroses, and camels, dude's got it covered.
September 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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.
Should a global crisis arise involving mislabeling of lions, rhinoceroses, and camels, dude's got it covered.
Congrats, Marilyn Maye, on making it into this Good Housekeeping article about popular baby names!
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenti...
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenti...
These Vintage Girl Names From the 1960s Are Make a Major Comeback
Hello, Joy!
www.goodhousekeeping.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Congrats, Marilyn Maye, on making it into this Good Housekeeping article about popular baby names!
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenti...
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenti...
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.
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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.
🎶
August 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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.
🎶
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.
🎶
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 “Constance Towers” wouldn’t you be expected to be a pillar of strength—no frivolity ever?
August 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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 “Constance Towers” wouldn’t you be expected to be a pillar of strength—no frivolity ever?
The cybersphere has, for some reason, warmly embraced the erroneous idea that I'm a Pennsylvanian.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
August 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The cybersphere has, for some reason, warmly embraced the erroneous idea that I'm a Pennsylvanian.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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.
Is the Playboy Mansion a national monument yet? Maybe name something after her there.
July 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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.
Is the Playboy Mansion a national monument yet? Maybe name something after her there.
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...
He may think his followers are sheep, but many continue to stray from the flock.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
Trump Attacks ‘Past’ Supporters Upset Over Epstein Case
www.nytimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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...
He may think his followers are sheep, but many continue to stray from the flock.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
"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:
Clarifying for Trump admin: These are not the forebears McCullough had in mind:
July 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"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:
Clarifying for Trump admin: These are not the forebears McCullough had in mind:
Reposted by Mark Dundas Wood
Popped into my head a distant memory:
When I was about 10, I knew two other Marks in my school. I fantasized that I was part of a sitcom about three irrepressible kids in an elementary classroom. The series was called "Three Marks Against Us."
When I was about 10, I knew two other Marks in my school. I fantasized that I was part of a sitcom about three irrepressible kids in an elementary classroom. The series was called "Three Marks Against Us."
July 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Popped into my head a distant memory:
When I was about 10, I knew two other Marks in my school. I fantasized that I was part of a sitcom about three irrepressible kids in an elementary classroom. The series was called "Three Marks Against Us."
When I was about 10, I knew two other Marks in my school. I fantasized that I was part of a sitcom about three irrepressible kids in an elementary classroom. The series was called "Three Marks Against Us."
I'd had no plans to see the "Boop" musical, but a friend was going with a group, and I got a ticket too. Very glad I did. Young audience seemed to know more about BB than I did. I had to look up info on her early incarnation as a poodle.
Jasmine Amy Rogers has a bright future ahead!
Jasmine Amy Rogers has a bright future ahead!
July 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'd had no plans to see the "Boop" musical, but a friend was going with a group, and I got a ticket too. Very glad I did. Young audience seemed to know more about BB than I did. I had to look up info on her early incarnation as a poodle.
Jasmine Amy Rogers has a bright future ahead!
Jasmine Amy Rogers has a bright future ahead!
If you are feeling all the waves of guilt and shame you should be feeling right now, Senator #LisaMurkowsi, you can always leave what Yip Harburg called the “misbegotten GOP” once and for all.
July 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
If you are feeling all the waves of guilt and shame you should be feeling right now, Senator #LisaMurkowsi, you can always leave what Yip Harburg called the “misbegotten GOP” once and for all.