Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Seriously. Am I the only person left who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the World Cup? 210
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 18/01/2026@selfstyledsiren.bsky.social The happiest of birthdays to you! 000
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Just slightly different from how I remember it, but more interesting-looking. 000
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Can’t say I’ve ever seen this before. @bcdreyer.social, have you? youtu.be/-scjikmhkcc?...youtu.be"Voodoo Macbeth" by Orson Welles - 1936 New York Premiere [4K, 24fps]YouTube video by Floating Films 010
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 13/12/2025More good news from my oncologist: my latest CT scan showed the lesions on my pancreas shrank a little (the ones on my liver held steady) and that I’m responding very well to treatment. The upshot is that I’ll still be around to annoy you all — for a while, at least. 140
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 09/02/2025So, in other news, one of my tumor markers, which had originally been in the 4000s, is now down to 26, well within the normal range. Thanks for all your support and good thoughts. 3110
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 03/02/2025@selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Your notes for “Chicago” at the Day of Silents are a treat, as always. 110
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 26/01/20251 / Well, I suppose I owe you all an update on our Canada trip, which turned out to be a bit of a bust – at least the Yukon part of it. Our intention was to see the Northern Lights, but on the nights they were active, the sky was clouded over, and when the skies were clear? Well, you can guess. 220
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 06/11/2024If only Merrick Garland had been alive to see this. 000
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 05/11/2024If I can get my ass to the polls on chemo day, you have no excuse. Get out there and exercise your franchise. 040
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 30/10/2024Today would have been my mother's 104th birthday. Love you, mom. 030
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 23/10/2024Three treatments down in the first chemo cycle; one to go. 000
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 17/10/2024@markwaid.bsky.social Just wondering if "Pippo Pizarelli" is any relation to my guitar-playing pal John Pizzarelli? 010
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 09/10/2024In the immortal words of Clark Gable in “Hollywood Steps Out:” “It’s me again!” Chemotherapy: The Sequel 140
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 20/09/2024I’d like to introduce my two new best friends: my chemotherapy port and the hole they had to make to connect it to my jugular vein (!). I start chemo on Tuesday morning and, while I’m not looking forward to the side-effects, I am looking forward to the actual effects. Stay well, everyone. 020
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 20/09/2024Hey, @bullythelsb.bsky.social and @randimason.bsky.social! Got an IP lawyer? 130
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 07/09/20241/ So, here’s the deal. I’ll start with the bad news: I have stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Now the good news: I’m looking at some very promising treatment options that could mean I’ll still be around to complain about stuff for a good while yet. (I’ll keep you all informed on those moves.) 130
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 04/09/2024I’m teaching today, so I’m imparting my new motto and philosophy to my students. Oh, and Fuck Cancer. 020
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 30/08/2024In tabloid news: DAVE SIKULA TELLS ALL. My “procedure” today was a liver biopsy, to see both if I may have pancreatic cancer and, if so, if it’s spread. This is all I know at this point. The pathologist has the samples and will get me the news as soon as possible. 1/ 100
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 30/08/2024As uncomfortable as I feel about going public with this (and I will be more forthcoming in time), I’m having a medical procedure at 9:30 AM Friday, and could really use any positive thoughts or energy you can spare. Thanks in advance. 220
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 26/08/2024The appallingly-bad original opening to "West Side Story." One can easily see why they dumped the lyrics and dialogue. soundcloud.com/jonthessc/be...soundcloud.comBernstein SondheimFrom a Library of Congress concert celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the opening of 010
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 09/08/2024@jackviertel.bsky.social You remain my favorite theatre critic ever. The Herald-Examiner was a gold mine of good writing. 110
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 06/08/2024Hoping it’s Walz, expecting Shapiro, and not affecting my vote either way. 010
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 03/08/2024Son, shut the hell up about Pikachu for thirty seconds. 000
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 01/08/2024@bcdreyer.bsky.social There’s an American Theatre (sic) thread at Zuck’s place about favorite last lines in plays or musicals and I thought you surely must have one. Mine are “I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for a time,” and “Son of a bitch stole my watch.” 010
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 29/07/2024Two years ago, I was doing inventory at the American Conservatory Theatre library and opened a copy of William Gibson’s “Seesaw Log,” and found this bookplate. 010
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 25/07/2024Have to wonder if Vance keeps trying to get them to let him do a campaign stop in Davenport, Iowa. 000
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 19/07/2024Biden right now. youtu.be/O7QP9Zqge4s?...youtu.beJon Lovitz as Dukakis: I Can't Believe I'm Losing To This GuyFrom a Saturday Night Live parody of the Bush-Dukakis debate of 1988. Aired on 10/8/88 (Season 14, Episode 1). 000
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 18/07/2024Hey, media, can we please stop with the "Trump dodged a bullet" crap? I was closer to getting hit than he was. 010
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 18/07/2024If J.D. Vance indeed described Trump as a cross between Hitler and Nixon, why do we assume he saw that as a negative? 020
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 17/07/2024@markwaid.bsky.social Damn, you. You made me tear up over Bat-Mite. Bat-Mite, fer cryin’ out loud! 000
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 16/07/2024I swear to god; the Times would buy the Brooklyn Bridge from Trump if he said he owned it. (Not included: Trump falling asleep in the hall. Guess it would have made Dear Leader look weak.) 000
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 15/07/2024Really ashamed of myself for not connecting the "assassination attempt" with the Reichstag Fire. I mean, who'd ever suspect a Nazi like Stephen Miller of trying something like that? 000
Reposted by Dave SikulaBebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 08/07/2024Sometimes my scroll gets it right. 14844147
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 06/07/2024There’ll be an entertainment industry. It’ll just be all Trump documentaries and reruns of The Apprentice. 000
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 01/06/2024@thehighsign.bsky.social Listening to the Culture Gabfest, and the three fictional movies I most want to see are “So Long Sarong,” “Ants in Your Plants of 1939,” and — especially— “Hey Hey in the Hayloft.” 120
Reposted by Dave SikulaNational Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 10/05/2024I blame @bermanmatt.bsky.social for this being buried in my mind's eye now. 171167261
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 07/05/2024There’s a crow in our neighborhood who apparently likes traditional media, because he tries to tear apart the blue plastic bag the NY Times comes in. Some days (like today) he makes it to the paper and tears it up (though today he added the wrinkle of separating the pages all over) 1/ 110
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 06/05/2024I’ll stipulate that I don’t like Roz and really don’t like “Gypsy,” but “Rose’s Turn” is particularly grisly. #TCMParty 000
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 25/04/2024There are few movie moments that give me a greater visceral satisfaction than the one at the end of #49thParallel when Raymond Massey is about to knock the living beejeezus out of Eric Portman. #TCMParty 010
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 23/04/2024@petersagal.bsky.social I admire (and emulate) your commitment to “hoBOken,” and wonder if you also append “and the rabbits” to the line “where the deer and the antelope play”? 110
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 23/03/2024@markwaid.bsky.social I have a question I think only you can answer. There was a story where someone was impersonating Superboy and being coached by his boss. Asked where he came from, the impostor replies “Kryp-tahn,” and is corrected that it’s “KrypTON,” like “a ton of bricks.” 1/ 110
Dave Sikula @davesikula.bsky.social · 08/03/2024I love this “oh, who’s going to play Katie Britt on SNL?” mania. If we know one thing about SNL, it’s that, whatever they do, it’ll be toothless, strained, and woefully unfunny. 010
