Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025I’m here to tell ya that many of the people he showed himself sh*tting on were quoting the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence , and the Bible 020
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Announcing LGBTQ Community News travsd.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/a...travsd.wordpress.comAnnouncing LGBTQ Community NewsI’m thrilled and proud to announce my place in the stable of Scott Stiffler’s very necessary new website, LGBTQ Community News, alongside the likes of Michael Musto, my old pal Jay Walk… 010
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I blame every f*cking cop show and movie that made/makes it seem like warrants and due process are a pain in the ass for the fact that so many Americans are okay with sh*t like what just went down at that Chicago apartment building. White Americans, it'll be happening to you next. 020
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025On Kimmel and Colbert & co. travsd.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/o...travsd.wordpress.comOf Kimmel and Colbert and CompanyI’m fairly certain I have nothing to say about the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and the cancellation of Stephen Colbert that hasn’t already said by millions, but I do want to get my posit… 000
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 14/09/2025“That’s nothing,” said Melania , “Around here the flags are ALWAYS at half mast!” Thank you, thank you, I’m here all week 000
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Y’all *nice* liberals are gonna nice us right into totalitarianism 010
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Let the buyer beware! I thought I was ordering cognac. What I was served was “Coney Ack”, a beverage made from regurgitated soda from the bucket next to the Cyclone exit. Live and learn! 000
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025"Tr*mp dispels death rumors by showing himself and revealing that, on the contrary, he is hanging on by one rapidly unravelling thread." 000
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 23/08/2025I once joined a road company of Pygmalion just so I could say “Let’s get this Shaw on the road!” 010
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025For someone who thinks there should be no politics in comedy, Jay Leno sure looks a lot like Tip O’Neil 130
Reposted by Trav S.D.dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 01/08/2025“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out. 11266531592
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Here’s the thing, right wing yahooes. Bill Clinton isn’t the current President of the United States. But by all means, if you need to put him in jail in order to put the present occupant in the slammer, by all means, go ahead, and be quick about it! Make ‘em cell mates for all I care! 000
Reposted by Trav S.D.Travels With Brindle is still composing a silent movie score @travelswithbrindle.bsky.social · 27/07/2025The terrific @travsd.bsky.social on Tom Lehrertravsd.wordpress.comSalute to Tom LehrerOriginally posted in 2018 on the occasion of Lehrer’s 90th birthday. Tin foil hats off to one of the few people to have been both a show biz genius and an actual genius, Tom Lehrer (1928-202… 161
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 25/07/2025One week from today, August 1, vaudeville returns to Coney Island! www.coneyisland.com/event/vaudev...coneyisland.comConey Island Vaudeville — Coney Island USAClick here for tickets and further info - $20 000
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Connie Francis, Ozzy Osborne, Hulk Hogan, Chuck Mangione all at once? Did the roof collapse on a Bob Hope special? 040
Reposted by Trav S.D.Rachel C @rachelcnyc.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Thank you, @travsd.bsky.social ! travsd.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/w...travsd.wordpress.comWhat To Do This Fourth of JulyYou surely have your own ways of observing the Fourth of July but we wanted to make you aware of some other activities happening in the NYC area beyond the usual parades, cook-outs, fireworks, and … 011
Reposted by Trav S.D.Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 17/06/2025NYC: if you can get to Federal Plaza near the Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall subway stops, come support Brad Lander, the latest Dem politician to be manhandled/detained by ICE for no legal reason. Zohran Mamdani is there in support of his fellow mayoral candidate. NYT's darling Cuomo nowhere in sight. 3862296
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025New York City Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander was arrested by ICE today. Time to hit the streets again. This is an outage no New Yorker should sit still for 120
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025RIP Sly Stone. My 80th birthday tribute to him from a couple of years ago here: travsd.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/s...travsd.wordpress.comSly Stone Turns 80More crazy news: Sylvester Stewart a.k.a. Sly Stone (b.1943) turns 80 years old today. It seems a good reason to shine a spotlight on him for that reason, as does the less happy benchmark that he b… 010
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 20/05/2025"What's that you say? They're showing 'The Cocoanuts' in 3-D this weekend at Coney Island USA, you say? And other cool Marx Bros programs? Oh, you DON'T say that, you just want ice water? My mistake!" (hangs up phone and goes to this link): travsd.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/d... ) 020
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025May 3 is #WorldPressFreedomDay. The map is deceptive. The truth is Reporters Without Borders ranks us #57 & that's for LAST year. Next year we're sure to rank deep in the brown. Pretty shabby showing for the first country to enshrine freedom of the press into its founding documents. rsf.org/en/index 000
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025RIP Ruth Buzzi travsd.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/r...travsd.wordpress.comRuth Buzzi: Why I’m Goofy for Toothy RuthieToday is the birthday of comedienne Ruth Buzzi (1936-2025). I’ve always felt a special connection to her because she was born in the same hospital as me (Westerly Hospital, Rhode Island) and … 030
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025This happened 80 years ago today. Thoughts about once and future such happy occasions today on Travalanche (travsd dot wordpress dot com) 000
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Travalanche one of New York’s Top 100 Blogs : travsd.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t... 010
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Bill Maher, Traitor: travsd.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/b...travsd.wordpress.comBill Maher Isn’t the Only One Who Has Gone Over to the Dark SideThis is the second time I’m felt the need to single out Bill Maher for conspicuous bad-acting. (The first was about five years ago). Now that he’s been to the White House to kiss the Ki… 030
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 11/04/2025From yesterday but it’s still 100! #greatgatsby #greatneck #fscottfitzgerald 000
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Down With All Kings: travsd.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/t...travsd.wordpress.comThe Upcoming Revolution Re-EnactmentSo…the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution is coming up in just a couple of weeks. Remember? The war started at Lexington and Concord, over a year before the signing of the Declarati… 000
Reposted by Trav S.D.Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Any one of the "11,000 global members with diverse viewpoints" who cannot condemn the physical assault of a filmmaker does not belong in the Academy. This is a woefully insufficient response, literally worse than silence. 8789192
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Tariffs seem to be the only economic concept Trump learned at Wharton — and he seems to have fallen asleep in the middle of the sentence “Tariffs are bad” 000
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Thanks to the comedians for coming through at the Kennedy Center last night. I was beginning to get worried. Okay, I'm still worried, but thanks for last night. 000
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Cincinnattoids & those within earshot of WMKV radio: listen for me on upcoming edition of The Big Broadcast w/ Mark Magistrelli & Mike Martini (it's on every Sat. night, 89.3FM in Cincy!). Just did a great interview w/ those two show biz lovers abt the Marx Brothers, vaudeville & tv variety shows! 020
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Canada, I think I speak for every thinking American when I say we don't want you to be our state -- we wanna be your province. 011
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I’m including social media among the businesses I’m not patronizing tomorrow for No Shop day. See you in a couple days! 010
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Let's see: "Daily Plane Crash". Is that a) regular headline we're just now getting used to; 2) new safety standard set by skeleton crew FAA; 3) the cute banner name of the new Executive Branch newsletter distributed at daily White House press briefings; 4) all of the above. 010
Reposted by Trav S.D.MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 18/02/2025BOTD Jack Palance! MCCT5: 5)Batman (Burton) 4)Shane (Stevens) 3)Panic in the Streets (Kazan) 2)The Big Knife (Aldrich) 1)Contempt (Godard) More: @travsd.bsky.social: travsd.wordpress.com/2021/02/18/o... @matt-thrift.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/jack-p...bfi.org.ukJack Palance: 10 essential filmsFrom iconic villainy in Shane and Le Mépris to his Oscar-winning turn in City Slickers, we celebrate the finest performances by Jack Palance, who was born 100 years ago this month. 3131
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 18/02/2025"Arctic Air Surging Across the U.S., Bringing With it Dangerously Cold Temperatures", or as we used to call it, Winter. 000
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Watching 79 year old Steve Martin open the SNL 50 special is very reminiscent of watching Jack Benny as a kid 010
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Donald J. Trump hopes you will enjoy all the fine entertainment at the newly renamed Lee Harvey Oswald Center 052
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025The Gulf of America? Ya mean the space between the ears of people wearing MAGA caps? 020
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I hear The Pitt and The Knick merged and formed a hospital where all the doctors and nurses tear apart your lifestyle choices. They call it The Nitpick! 120
Trav S.D. @travsd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Yesterday it was stress eating. Today it’s anger eating. Tomorrow I SWEAR it will be action eating 030
