Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Oh, MY Gloria Steinem story? Well that would be in the early 2000s when, Vassar diplomas freshly in hand, we tried to convince her that writing a musical about Monica Lewinsky was not an inherently anti-feminist project. And the songs were so catchy!! 010
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A double feature of 9 to 5 and Clue is always a possibility for me, but you’re saying now I can do that AND be sad?? 0342
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 13/07/2026🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🥳🎆👻STILL DEAD👻🎆🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈✨🤩🤩🤩💫🌟✨🤪🙌 🎉🍾🥳🎁🎊😍😘🌈🌈🌈 010
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I AM TRAVELING HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD, please America WAKE UP I can’t keep enjoying this by myself. 160
Reposted by DanWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/07/2026A terrible man dies. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comLindsey Graham, longtime South Carolina senator, dies at 71, his office saysGraham, who was first elected to the House in 1994 and the Senate in 2002, had been running for reelection this year. 80286181226
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Please make sure to click the full photo so you can see how Boeing — the company that makes the flying machines that go 5 miles up in the air — “fixed” a broken stoplight on their world headquarters campus in Washington. 010
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Apologies for the delay on the group text, the smaller group text complaining about the larger group text took all of my attention. 020
Reposted by DanSarah D(estroy ICE) Bunting @sarahdbunting.bsky.social · 06/06/2026#MASTAS returns to the William Joel songbook with our ranking episode of "An Innocent Man" -- and if you're a Patreon supporter, you can hear me, @markblankenship.bsky.social, and @djb123.bsky.social discuss it RIGHT NOW www.patreon.com/posts/early-...patreon.comLog in or sign up | PatreonPatreon is empowering a new generation of creators. Support and engage with artists and creators as they live out their passions! 082
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Tried to hate a new streaming movie that is broadly hated and hate-able, but it had one performance in it so good I couldn’t fully hate it. (And one performance so bad it’s like the actor was directing himself…oooooh, now it makes sense.) 110
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Deep Purple? Nightshade Ranger? Auberginesis? Oh wait, is it Prince? 000
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Great start, now Michael Hutchence biopic WHEN rockhall.com/inxs/ 111
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 14/02/2026The wonders of the Pacific Northwest and its scenic Hood Anal Bridge. 120
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 25/01/2026If you can, take a sec to celebrate the 20th anniversary (omg) of this most brilliant album from the most brilliant Jenny Lewis. If there is such a thing as a folk banger, this whole record is 1000% it. 020
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 26/12/2025I KNOW IT’S THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS, but Brick is bad. Listen to these songs instead! One Angry Dwarf Song for the Dumped Selfless Cold and Composed Kate Steven’s Last Night in Town Battle of Who Could Care Less (Also side note their first self-titled album is literally perfect.) 010
Reposted by DanJames Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 16/10/2025This corporate decision is--and I want to be subtle and even-handed in my phrasing so as not to lose any of the important nuances--stupid. 731739
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 29/09/2025As is demanded by the title, I talked to Mark and Sarah about songs.podcasts.apple.comBilly Joel'sPodcast Episode · Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs · 09/29/2025 · 1h 22m 010
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 15/09/2025My only lingering question about the #emmys is if I was the last person to talk to Jeff Hiller before he became known as “THE EMMY AWARD WINNING JEFF HILLER.” 080
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 25/08/2025BREAKING: my family will now cease to exist as it is too inconvenient for Snoop. variety.com/2025/film/ne...variety.comSnoop Dogg Says ‘I’m Scared to Go to the Movies’ After Pixar’s Gay Couple in ‘Lightyear’ Led to Questions From His Grandson: ‘These Are Kids. We Have to Show That at This Age?’Snoop Dogg says he's scared to go to the movies with his grandchildren after Disney and Pixar's 'Lightyear' included a gay kiss. 010
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 24/08/20253yo wears helmet even when scootering on his driveway, gets to keep all of his brains. Helmets! Are good! 020
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Listen to Linda…this might be the actual best see-it-in-a-theater-with-a-crowd movie I’ve seen, maybe, ever.npr.org17 children vanish into the night — 'Weapons' is terrific and terrifyingWeapons is a story about a community recovering from an inexplicable trauma that arrives like a natural disaster, wreaks havoc, and then cannot be reversed, only survived. 010
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Honestly who even needs climate-fueled catastrophes when your weather disasters are THIS biblical. 010
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 25/07/2025The love and enthusiasm I’m seeing for the Billy Joel doc is proof that all you have to do is live long enough to see your hobbies become cool again. I talked about it (and many other things) with my best and favorite TV friends on the latest Extra Hot Great!podcasts.apple.comBringing Honesty To Billy Joel: And So It GoesPodcast Episode · Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV · 07/24/2025 · 1h 35m 040
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 24/07/2025My actual dream Billy Joel karaoke song has got to be Stiletto, but other than that I stand behind the other 1,000,000 words I had to say about Long Island's finest. 021
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 15/07/2025For the next 30+ minutes it is largely true that this is the complete list of 2025 Awards Nominations, and I for one intend of enjoy it. 030
Reposted by DanBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/06/2025One thing about the current panic and how it’s almost exclusively targeted at LGBTQ people is looking back at growing up and realizing that almost every single instance of either straight up criminality or just being a creep at my school was done by a middle aged male teacher to a female student 521800251
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 27/06/2025AGAIN I AM ASKING what happens when my kids reference their parents in their public school? Or if we chaperone a field trip to the zoo? Or if we speak on career day? This ruling doesn’t just make my family disappear like Marty McFly in the family picture. www.seattletimes.com/business/sup...seattletimes.comSupreme Court says Maryland parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ booksThe Supreme Court has ruled that Maryland parents who have religious objections can pull their children from public school lessons using LGBTQ storybooks. 042
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Happy tenth anniversary to Obergefell v. Hodges, and a friendly reminder we are always one pissed-off-baker-in-Wyoming away from the end of federal marriage protection for same sex couples. (And no, a compelling argument is NOT "at least you're still married as long as you avoid just 13 states.") 050
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 17/06/2025I believe “How to Train Your Dragon Ballerina” was also the poorly translated foreign title of Black Swan. 010
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 14/06/2025A jaunty two-step I have long called “The Andie MacDowell Dance,” where she and I were walking toward each other on 57th Street and kept stepping in the same direction trying to get out of each other’s way. For a while. 030
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 14/06/2025In good news, only 500 more years until The B-52s have the hottest (and most) wigs alive. 030
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 02/06/2025In honor of 🏳️🌈pride🏳️🌈, please avoid using my nice little family as part of your bigoted political fever dreams. In unrelated news, here is our two year-old practicing his finest vogueing death drop. 070
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 31/05/2025I will talk to Joe whether it’s being recorded or not, and in this case I wasn’t even sure which one it was. 051
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 26/05/2025My favorite topic with my favorite people! Help us answer the question, “When it comes to Mr. Long Island 1980, is any amount of French too much?” 010
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Absolutely the saddest, but I know he will pull through because if there is one thing Billy knows it’s how to handle (Normal) PRESSURE (Hydrocephalus). www.tmz.com/2025/05/23/b...tmz.comBilly Joel Says He Has Brain Disorder, Cancels All Scheduled ConcertsBilly Joel says he's been diagnosed with a brain disorder ... and as a result, he's canceling all of his scheduled concerts. 120
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Go ahead, try and bury your MOST awkward phase DEEP in mom’s basement all you want, the horrible horrible truth will always find you. DON’T LOOK AWAY. I’m not sure anyone can beat this one. 040
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Have worked for 20+ successful years in my industry and my top two retirement options in America remain: 1) Discover vintage baseball card/garbage pail kid/two dollar bill in my stuff in mom’s basement. 2) Crash conclave, become unlikely next pope. Annnnnd that’s it. 030
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Happy “explaining to my 79 year old mother that no, actually, his name is not ‘Lamar Schmendrick’ and just because you don’t know who he is doesn’t disqualify him from performing at the Super Bowl” day to all who celebrate. #lamarschmendrick 130
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 09/02/2025If someone used this word in casual conversation with me (“My dog runs widdershins around the backyard!”) it would be grounds for ending the friendship immediately. 120
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 06/02/2025NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART: live look at nature’s snowy destruction that has shut down greater Seattle for two days running. 061
Dan @djb123.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Triple centennial w silver bonus anniversary (so, 325 years) of the last earthquake/tsunami combo that plunged the entire PNW underwater in a matter of seconds. In good news, when the next one hits (soon!), it will be a massive natural disaster that isn’t even tied to climate change. So it’s cool!en.wikipedia.org1700 Cascadia earthquake - Wikipedia 020
