David Wolfson

Things one sees wandering around New York.

In 2005 I presented a show called Dreamhouse on the Midtown International Theater Festival. It was a theatrical song cycle: no plot, just songs and a few monologues. The lyrics were all poems by a young poet named Barbara DeCesare. This is the cast album. davidwolfson.hearnow.com/dreamhouse

You know you’re getting old when: you see an exhilarating dance performance, but running through your mind the whole time is “Oh, their poor knees.”

Dropped my 2nd EP today. Links to stream on all the major services at davidwolfson.hearnow.com. Enjoy!

Is it too early to start calling RFK Jr the Secretary of Death and Funeral Services?

The "Americans of Conscience" checklist, a curated list of constructive actions: americansofconscience.com/03-14-2025/

An action for those trying to help stave off authoritarianism: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

So…is this just an oligarchy now, or is it also a kleptocracy? Or is kakistocracy the only apt word?

Some days my life feels like assembling a jigsaw puzzle while skydiving.

My latest review for #Bachtrack:

Lynn and I (and Guinevere, pictured below) will be observing the "Economic Blackout" protest scheduled for tomorrow, Feb. 28th. Will you?

Letters to voters in Wisconsin. (If you want to help, search for “Vote Forward.”)

Who knows whether petitions are useful, but: When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI programs? sign.moveon.org/petitions/ta...

A concrete action: help keep the Wisconsin Supreme Court out of conservative hands.

My latest review for #Bachtrack.

My annual reminder that you can rearrange the letters of today’s sporting event to spell “PUS BLOWER.”

Look, Ma, I’m a card-carrying member! (If you are not already supporting organizations like this with an automatic monthly donation, please consider it! Their online donor forms start at $5/month, and they are our best line of defense right now, along with the state AGs.)

Here's what I'm doing today: www.mobilize.us/peoplepoweru...

I have just finished arrangements and orchestrations for AMT Theater's "Upside Down," which goes into rehearsal Monday. I didn't count the total number of bars, but the piano/vocal score is 178 pages. It's been a long month—I started with lead sheets!

Here's what I just did: left messages for Congressman Adriano Espaillat and Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand asking them to reach across the aisle and find Republicans who are willing to push back on 47's illegal executive actions, which abrogate Congress' powers.

@lajolicoeur.bsky.social welcome to the neighborhood!

My latest review for @bachtrack.bsky.social

@bugason.bsky.social Welcome to the neighborhood!

I don't want echo-chamber hand-wringing. I want a calm, rational assessment of whether there are any potentially effective responses we should be making, whether to push back or simply to mitigate the effects. Anybody got anything like that?

I shall be comforting myself today by imagining all the ACLU lawyers with their fingers poised over the "Return" key.

Sometimes you see a musical that reminds you why you fell in love with musical theatre in the 1st place, and also reassures you that if it can be this good, this heartbreaking, this joyful, then maybe you haven’t been crazy to spend your whole life working on it after all. #maybehappyending

We're still scratching our heads about this episode. We finally got an address (verified by the rewards store) to return the Apple Watch this weekend, so I guess the story ends there? But if any more thieves want to give us money or send us presents, we won't say no. 4/4

We contacted the fraud department and were assured that they would restore the points. But then a couple days later, we received the Apple Watch at our apartment. Upon investigating, we realized that the points that had been redeemed for cash had been deposited in my wife's checking account. 3/4

There hadn't—whew! But then we realized that during the few minutes where the thieves had had access to our accounts, they had redeemed all our points, both to purchase an Apple Watch and for cash. 2/4

A couple of months ago we got a notice that the password to the online account to our credit card had been changed. We hadn't changed it. We immediately changed the user name and password and checked to see whether any new purchases had been made. 1/4

What if insurance companies were required to be public benefit corporations?

So tired. So very tired.

Human beings make the most sense if you remember we're basically chimpanzees.

Parasympathetic nervous system ACTIVATE!!!

I will never understand how every organization in the country asking for money on the same day is a good idea.

I just had instant oatmeal for breakfast for the first time in several decades (this is the hotel I'm staying at's idea of a complimentary breakfast). I don't remember it tasting quite so much like despair and defeat.

My Thanksgiving (re)read was Terry Pratchett’s “Monstrous Regiment.” One of his most underrated, most profound books.

I don’t actually think we should punch Nazis. I think we should restrain them so they don’t pose a danger to themselves or others, as we would people with any other mental illness. At least until a treatment is developed.

Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.

I have just learned that the author of “How to Massage Your Cat” (a work of genius) was none other than the Alice of “Alice’s Restaurant.”

For some reason this spoke to me.

Things one sees walking around New York.

Really enjoying listening to it rain after all this time. Much more than I was enjoying driving in it.

I’m going to try the “things one sees walking around New York” series out over here. Those of you who are also Facebook friends will already have seen these.

There is no them. There is only us.

There’s a story here, I’m sure of it.

Okay, I'm new here. Just saying hi.