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Daniel Leonard

@danielleonard.bsky.social
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English PhD: animals & self in 20/21C lit Tennis, jazz, jokes Ultrarunner, puppeteer, poet he/him

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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I Reached The Top And So Can You by The Itsy Bitsy Spider Who Lives In That Particular Corner
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Discontent Destroyer
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When the tooth fairy dies, will all of our teeth reappear under our current pillows? Or will each tooth reappear under the pillow we originally placed it under? Or, if the magic dies with her, will her estate executor have to track us down individually to return them?
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Element Hotel, Element Magazine, Honda Element, and LMNT Zero Sugar Electrolytes
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I could get used to this!"
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And then there were none
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Simply having a wonderful Christmas slime
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
language sensitivity guide: don't say: "Hydrox" do say: "Oreo" don't say: "Hyrox" do say: "hybrid obstacle race" don't say: "Hyrax" do say: "shrew-mouse" don't say: "Horcrux" do say: "phylactery"
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
as Ezekiel foretold
screenshot from university website: "Center for Centers"
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
2001: A Space Odyssey
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
when a jakes was a jakes and johns were johns
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
still from the film Me and You and Everyone We Know featuring ASCII art: ))<>((
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Grogu Stickers Will Be Prosecuted
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this little piggy went to the job market
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Loaded question: What do you call a train that's usually underground? B) Elevated
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Restricting water intake confers no athletic benefit. It is only a detriment. The AD says nothing went wrong, but this plan had no foreseeable positive outcome—it was never possible for it to go "right." If it had avoided tragedy, that outcome would have been a wild coincidence.
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
fuggit
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's a saying in puppetry: You can make any show you like, as long as you call it Cinderella.
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
tip: if your region is a known habitat for poets, do NOT save these for breakfast. eat them now
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
jumpin' jive
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
an apartment building-sized pile of animal skins put one by one through a blender?
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Lincoln! In The Bardo
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
it's a Keurigendum
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
you delivered the K-O
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Firsthand accounts of the Sourdough Uprising
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
a ha'penny for the healthicopter
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Two boxing gloves way, way up @strongbadnofoolin.bsky.social
today's New York Times Spelling Bee puzzle, spelling out the majestic DOUBLEDEUCE
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I'd be...a voice for the voiceless
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
headline correction: and ANSWER questions about authorship, not raise them!
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
How has the For Dummies book series spent 35 years releasing over 2,500 volumes without a single one on ventriloquism?
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Update: The article featuring Sarah leads the Weekend Arts section in today's PRINT edition of the Times!
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
celeb spoofs for an animated bird movie: characters: Charlize Heron Owl Pacino Steven Seagull Emu Philips Raven-Symoné Jay Pharoah cameos: Sheryl Crow Tony Hawk director: Brad Bird
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The main female character in one puppetry tradition gets, often literally, the short end of the stick: During Punch and Judy shows, Judy endures not only domestic drudgery but also the vicious blows of her husband’s cudgel.

But what if Judy — and a host of real women who rarely get the spotlight — were to rise up and take center stage at a major arts event?That’s the promise of the fourth International Puppet Fringe Festival NYC, which opens on Wednesday afternoon and runs through Sunday at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Comprising more than 50 plays and programs, the celebration includes Sarah Nolen’s feminist adaptation, “Judy Punches Back,” as well as other theater productions, workshops, art exhibitions, film screenings and discussions, most of them focusing on this year’s festival theme: women in puppetry.“Let’s have Judy be the star of the show,” Nolen, who is based in Waltham, Mass., said in a video interview, describing “Judy Punches Back.” “It was 2018 when I was developing it, so #MeToo was flourishing.” In Nolen’s largely nonviolent version, when Punch continually demands that his wife make him a sandwich, Judy delivers his just deserts.
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Sarah Nolen packs a punch, and so does her show Judy Punches Back—featured in today's New York Times! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/t...
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A Puppet Festival That Asks, What if Judy Punched Back? (Gift Article)
The International Puppet Fringe Festival brings dozens of shows, films, exhibits and workshops to the Lower East Side. This year, the focus is on women.
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Since I started tracking runs 11 years ago, I've climbed about 3/4 of the way to the International Space Station. I hope they've got snacks.
screenshot from Strava, with the final number highlighted:
All-Time	
Activities	1,491
Distance	15,754.1 mi
Time	2,945h 12m
Elev Gain	1,000,798 ft
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
@samueltwain.bsky.social potentially of interest: trustnodelogic.com/songstructur...
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The Architecture of the Three-Minute Song
How CD-era verse-chorus-bridge songwriting gave way to front-loaded, algorithm-tuned arrangements built for streaming. An interactive structural analysis by JRAY.
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
You're simply too valuable
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I allow my students to have personal commitments to cannibalism. I don't allow them to propose that we eat Jerry.
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Andy Serkis covered in ping-pong balls (no CGI)
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
S*H*A*M
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You've heard of Elf on a Shelf? Get ready for... Hog on a Jog
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Koihood
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
TIL cancelled-movies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Inc...
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet (remake)
There have been two attempts to remake the 1964 classic, one starring Jim Carrey in the 1990s and the other starring Zach Galifianakis in the 2000s. In 1996, a live-action/animated hybrid remake of Th...
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
suggestion for her first feature film
Poster for the 1964 family comedy film The Incredible Mr. Limpet, featuring Don Knotts facing a cartoon version of himself as a fish
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
her itinerary's loaded with moving violations
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
4:33
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
waltz for doobie
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Little-known fact: the original Greek title for this chapter of The Odyssey translates to "Flummox the Lummox"
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In the land of the one-eyed men, the two-eyed man is king kong
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Daniel Leonard @danielleonard.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
via pbfcomics.com
A Perry Bible Fellowship comic.
Panel 1: Ancient warriors draw back in surprise at the mouth of a cave. From within the cave, a giant peers out with a single eye.
Panel 2: The warriors flee. As they now face the viewer, we can see that the soldiers are all cyclops. The giant stands outside the cave, revealing that he is a human with two eyes; the second eye was formerly obscured by the outer wall of the cave. At his feet stand some sheep.
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