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I have a chest freezer in my basement and the use of a fridge across the street (thank goodness), but the latter isn't all that convenient.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 3h

It could be worse! We have a chest freezer in the basement (that's currently packed with stuff from the failed fridge upstairs).

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 4h

I am commencing Day Two Without A Refrigerator. Please, someone send ice.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, they have me nailed.

Home & Family
Father yelled at the TV whenever the Baltimore Colts were losing when the customer was a child

Interests & Hobbies
Has little knowledge of or interest in football

Interests & Hobbies
Teaches creative writing workshops

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 13h

I have seen him in Bullets over Broadway, Something Rotten, Shuffle Along, The Prom, Once Upon a Mattress, and this…so I guess I’m a fan!

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 13h

He’s really quite funny in this!

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 14h

Bill Irwin not listing Stepping Out (1991) in his Playbill film credits is a hate crime.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 14h

The script is very much an Oh, Maryfication of the Moliere, complete with anachronisms, but I didn’t find it out of place. I laughed and had a great time. (Who is the crush, though??)

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 16h

This evening’s entertainment.

A photo of the marquee of the Haines Theater, where Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid is playing

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 23h

Help yourself! You're a growing boy!

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I shouldn't have brought up the juice glass, huh

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this issue with the late Fred, who refused aggressively to allow the vet to take a sample, then wouldn't pee on non-absorbent beads. After 18 hours of non-peeing, I let her out of the locked room, followed her to her usual litter box, and just held a juice glass underneath while she let loose.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's the shingles jab that does the worst. After my second vaccination I spent the next two days in bed.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm curious to read the Boyne, too.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The book's by Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson, and is as much a memoir about grappling with an ever-evolving family legacy as anything else. There's a late-chapter narrative about Holland attending a Pride parade in Moscow as a straight ally and meeting with violence, that I found really moving.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It feels like weeks since I started Forever Oscar, an exhaustive and granular examination of Oscar Wilde's last years and legacy that begins the moment Wilde steps out of prison in 1897 and continues through 2024. Yet, I loved it. An easy recommendation for those into literary scandal and gossip.

The cover of Merlin Holland's After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal, featuring the Irish author in a cape and hat, gazing serenely off-camera

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Liking this post so we can become engaged.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

P.S. It didn't happen. I got tired of the bad treatment and dumped him, mid-semester. Then he graduated and preyed on a high school kid less adept at standing up for himself.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Spent an hour with the journal my 19-year-old self in 1983, and was shocked—shocked!—to discover I expected possibly to move in, my senior year, with my college boyfriend. The boyfriend who made me walk 20 feet behind him on campus because he didn't want people to think we were 'that way.'

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There was a barely discernible burnt flavor that you'd experience at the very back of your nose a moment after you finished chewing.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Deep Fried Oreo Oreos tasted just like...Oreos.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It turned me into a Basiasexual.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That Matt Bianco album remains flawless.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the traitors just flat-out announcing he's a traitor to a roomful of people is w-i-l-d.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the gays taking a selfie with a fresh haircut? Unthinkable.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think it was one of those things where he got a phone call just before my appointment where they said, "Uh, remember those tests we ran? You need to come in immediately."

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think he's fine? But now I run the flats of my palms over the sides of my head and keep shooting finger guns at myself in the mirror.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I walked in for my usual lookee-here-the-big-boss-wants-his-money-and-he-wants-it-today haircut yesterday and my ancient Italian barber literally said, "Hiya boys! I'm off to the hospital for open heart surgery!" and handed me off to the awkward bear barber, who gave me the tightest skin fade ever.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Guilty as to the slumming, but I have plenty of PTSD of my own in other areas.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I will spend hours going down rabbit holes whenever I read an article about enraged and entitled estranged parents, and yet I had great parents myself. Discuss.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Honestly thought the first was Slutty Charlie Chaplin.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It almost kind of sounds like this is essentially another Andy solo tour, what with Vince staying home?

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was just this minute wondering when it started!

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ain't that the truth. 🫤

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sniffies Guy: you remind me of my second stepdad Him: he was creepy looking but in a hot way Him: lol do you think i'm calling you creepy it's not that serious Him: hello are you going to answer me

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Your mom and I would have a lot to talk about over coffee.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While I'm still mourning the loss of Fred last week, it truly has been nice not to have her standing on my chest and loudly meowing, starting at 4:30 am, to demand food. Ruby, on the other hand, has always been more of a "Hey you just go about your business I'll wake up when I wake up" kind of gal.

A fat calico cat spraws on her back to expose her enormous belly.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I kind of rolled my eyes when his very defensive wife went on social media and compared him to Stanley Tucci.

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Bernard Orlick (Stanley Tucci): I Have No Idea What

ALT: Bernard Orlick (Stanley Tucci): I Have No Idea What

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dad will hump the grump outta you.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I loved the Oz books, but my yourhful editions were the Macmillan large trade paperbacks with the textured covers. I did own the Del Ray editions of the Thompson installments, at one point.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was aware of Shirley MacLaine from a very young age because she was born in my Northside neighborhood in Richmond. It was the kind of neighborhood that would never, ever shut up about it, though the family lived there only briefly. But hey, listen to this excellent podcast, already!

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I loved the 2018 tour. Everything about it was perfect, from the sound to the arrangements to the energy. Part of me really preferred the tiny 2012 tour with just Sara and Keren, though, where only hardcore, diehard gay fans turned out to be within literal spitting distance of the girls.

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sitting over here pretending I haven’t dropped buckets of money on the Nana’s signed commemorative releases and concerts over a 40 year period. 😚

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Track me down and pounce on me?

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Mr. Steed @mrsteed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A The Gilded Age Christmas album? Who asked for a The Gilded Age Christmas album? (It was me. I not only asked for a The Gilded Age Christmas album, but I dreamed about it with such determination that I manifested it into reality and you're all welcome.)

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Audra McDonald, Christine Baranski, Carrie Coon, Kelli O’Hara Launch Gilded Age Christmas Album - TheaterMania.com

The Broadway stars of HBO’s The Gilded Age team up with songwriter Desmond Child for this new record, featuring holiday classics and original songs.

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