Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The ABBA song Mamma Mia was released in 1975. The musical Mamma Mia premiered 24 years later in 1999. Since the musical has now been running for 27 years, it has been around longer than the time between the song and the musical. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I've begun rereading Look Homeward, Angel, and I'm finding it as breathtakingly masterful as I did 40 years ago. #ThomasWolfe 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Sorry to learn of Don Nelson's death. Our families lived down the street from each other when I was growing up and he played for the Celtics. I used to bike by there all the time. www.newsweek.com/sports/nba/h...newsweek.comHall of Fame coach, former Celtics champion Don Nelson diedThe second-winningest coach in NBA history, who was part of five championship teams with the Celtics, died at 86. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Watching the Tony Awards makes me consider auditioning for a community theatre show again, after I thought I was done. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I don't like an overwhelming quantity of Lord of the Rings, but I can stand a Tolkien amount. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Overheard at school: "If you're a tomboy or a stud you could be a femboy." #seventhgrade 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I've read 33 novels and novellas so far this year. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 02/05/2026My wife says if I write a book it should be called "Things I Shouldn't Have Said." 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I wish I could live forever. I'm having so much fun. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I was excited to watch the Artemis II launch. I feel like that makes me an old-timer — "When we watched the Apollo launches..." 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 28/03/2026I was going to make a clever post, but then I realized that no everything that comes into your head needs to be shared with the world. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 24/03/2026T-Mobile's annual support of free streaming on the MLB app makes my life better. #baseball 010
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Heritage is grandparents and great-grandparents and all those older generations looking down at you fondly and wishing you success. 010
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 21/02/2026The first Red Sox spring training game, with Joe Castiglione no less, was just what I needed as a reminder that spring will come someday. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I have mad DJ skills, by which I mean I can crossfade, make great, segues, and slip-cue LP tracks. Man, I'm old. 011
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I would like to work this week but our plowing service hasn't been here and doesn't respond to phone calls or texts. We've turned to Plan B — cross your fingers. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Wouldn't it be cool if snow falling came with a musical accompaniment that reflected the mood of the storm? 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 02/01/2026No one has phoned me so far this year. Or texted me for that matter. 010
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 25/11/2025You know what glitter is? It's fairy feces. Yeah. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Donald Trump is doing what the 9/11 terrorists tried to do — demolish the White House. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 25/07/2025A lot of Wordle streaks are going to be broken today. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 05/07/2025I'm not interested in reading any article whose headline begins, "I asked ChatGPT..." 010
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Red flag in an adult: interest or belief in astrology 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Tried to read two classic novels today. Couldn't get into either. For the the record, Mrs. Dalloway and Angle of Repose 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I sadly conclude, after many efforts, that Virginia Woolf is not for me. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 19/06/2025The power's out. My phone battery is low. Might not make it. Send brownies. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 17/06/2025I'm heading into Manhattan on Wednesday - time to see some theatre. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Turns out it's OK to step in a puddle but not in a puggle 🤷🏻♂️ #liveandlearn 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I've been on Snapchat for more than 12 years, and in that time I think I've had two conversations on the platform - and I'm fine with that. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Student 1: My dad draws. Student 2: My dad farts. Great way to to start a day of substitute teaching! 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Just having a chat with a deer friend in the backyard. 020
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 24/04/202543 years ago today I saw The Ramones in concert. 010
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 23/04/2025In West Virginia. The air smells wonderful. 010
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 15/04/2025So Sarah Snook and Sadie Sink are two different people? 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Wife: Who was Lincoln's vice president? Me: First or second term? Wife: First. Me: Hannibal Hamlin Wife: Second? Me: Andrew Johnson Wife: You're annoying. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I was never comfortable as an extrovert but I could fake it. Now I don't have the patience to do that. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Bookish Checkpoint! Last: ✨ Bread Givers — Anzia Yezierska Current: ✨ Sanctum of the Soul — Ken Kade Next: ✨ Freelancers of Neptune — Jacob Holo Last Book I Added to My TBR: ✨ Murder by Memory — Olivia Waite 010
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 30/03/2025OK, editors of Bluesky, what's wrong with this sentence? Hint: it isn't the passive voice: A few spies had been sent to gather more information, but none had returned alive. 010
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I'm not in any group chat. I've never been in a group chat. 😔 010
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Apparently the QWERTY keyboard layout wasn't designed to slow down typists who kept getting keys stuck. Here's the real story. repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp 020
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I'm usually a Brandon Sanderson fan but the slow pace of the Stormlight Archive books is trying my patience. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 07/03/2025This would be a good time for an old friend to surprise me with a phone call 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 06/03/2025My wife is exhibiting a watercolor botanical painting at the Philadelphia Flower Show. I'm going to in Friday to bask in her reflected glory. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 18/02/2025HP is where questionable technology goes to die. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Me: If we had a day to spend in Center City Philadelphia what would we do? Wife: Go to New York. 000
Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I'll be glad when the expression "not gonna lie" goes out of fashion. It makes the person saying it sound insincere and generally untruthful. 000