new #wordlesentence ! O thou dull, dusty Wreck of Time! Thy fatal Bylaw all do see Yet fain loath am I t’agree With th’unmoved Mover Creed: That ev’ry Death doth Nature feed, That Dying with Living should rhyme. 5/21: AGREE 5/20: WRECK 5/19: DUSTY 5/18: LOATH 5/17: BYLAW 5/16: MOVER 5/15: CREED

Short-ish takes on recent-ish shows davidcote1.substack.com/p/thursday-c...

Honor as always to help with these awards! news.ssbcrack.com/2026-theatre...

This week’s #wordlesentence: Arctic Fashion Edition! “I didn’t waver in the store, but now the newly purchased satin parka seems dowdy; just clock the lumpy umbra I cast on the snow.” 5/14: WAVER 5/13: DOWDY 5/12: CLOCK 5/11: NEWLY 5/10: PARKA 5/9: SATIN 5/8: UMBRA

Spreading the word about a handful of wonderful opera companies that make New Yorkers want to sing! www.tdf.org/on-stage/tdf...

The Banality of Evil…Can Be Banal open.substack.com/pub/davidcot...

This week's #wordlesentence: Oversleeper Edition “She tried to bring coffee to the tardy riser, but the latch wouldn’t budge; a steamy plume rose from the mug which one might liken to a puffy, lazing cloud.” 5/7: BUDGE 5/6: LIKEN 5/5: LATCH 5/4: RISER 5/3: PUFFY 5/2: BRING 5/1: PLUME

This week's #wordlesentence “Drunk, with a syrupy gloss thickening his tongue, he said ‘quack’ when he meant ‘crock,’ seeing eerie women surrounding the rural cottage, each holding a bottle of maple rum.” 4/30: CROCK 4/29: RURAL 4/28: QUACK 4/27: EERIE 4/26: GLOSS 4/25: WOMEN 4/24: DRUNK

Qualified praise for a musical that could have been much worse...and considerably better. How The Lost Boys Breaks the Vampire Musical Curse open.substack.com/pub/davidcot...

TONIGHT @ 7:30 open.substack.com/pub/davidcot...

New #wordlesentence “I can’t stand it anymore, the belle thought, scowling at his dozing clump: the pathetic weave on his scalp, his toady status at work, how his snore whistled like the tweet of a dying budgie.” 4/23: TWEET 4/22: SNORE 4/21: CLUMP 4/20: WEAVE 4/19: STAND 4/18: TOADY 4/17: BELLE

I pray to god they didn't get to Tracy Gill www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Oops I did it again substack.com/@davidcote1/...

Democracy Dies in Darkness, then Gets Back Up to Eat Your Braaaaaaaaains

Thoughts on Broadway's Exoneration Drama The Fear of 13 open.substack.com/pub/davidcot...

About the time I work a big padded but and a poop-shaped hat davidcote1.substack.com/p/help-us-ce...

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

I hope and pray for you Hungary. Get that fucker out.

“Blood-sworn, the Polish envoy beached at an obscure inlet, dragged the chest laden with silver a few sandy yards, plunged into a dense thicket, and buried it—first making sure to singe the trunk of a banyan as a marker.” 4/9: LADEN 4/8: INLET 4/7: DENSE 4/6: SWORN 4/5: ENVOY 4/4: SANDY 4/3: SINGE

Research Notes: Death of a Salesman (2012) open.substack.com/pub/davidcot...

What a beautiful moment.

46 years ago on April 5, 1980, the band played their first show. Sandra-Lee Phipps took these photos that historic night in Athens at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Oconee Street.

Every sentence is a future bestselling novel

#wordlesentence “Slick with oil the basil breadstick was bent like a serif foot, amongst the mess her brood had made at dinner, as she wished herself wiser, in a child-free oasis that befit her writerly spirit.” 3/26: BEFIT 3/25: WISER 3/24: BROOD 3/23: SERIF 3/22: BASIL 3/21: SLICK 3/20: OASIS

In my imagination there’s lots of gratuitous badass profanity in dogspeak as they bust out heading for freedom. “Let’s fuckin move,” “imma come back and kill every one of those motherfuckers” “don’t you fuckin die on me” and thuslike

This week's #wordlesentence - Detox Edition “Drama in rehab—amply displayed in group with eaten pride and ankle biting—as junkies clasp twelve steps to make the grade.” 3/19: REHAB 3/18: AMPLY 3/17: CLASP 3/16: DRAMA 3/15: GRADE 3/14: ANKLE 3/13: EATEN

This week's #wordlesentence: Neo-Noir Edition!

Michael joins Michael Shannon - Jason Narducy & Co. tonight at Brooklyn Steel for “The Great Beyond.”

Oklahoma! Senate farmhand Markwayne's been sent to make sure everything's up to date at DHS after a girl who can't say no took things about as far as they could go. But be careful who you dally with in that plane with a fringe on top, or people will say you're in love. by Maureen Dowd

This week’s #wordlesentence: Lamb Rustling Edition! “Call me slime, but the theft of Dan’s sheep was a fluke, a dizzy lark with a linen sheet I tossed over the hydra-headed herd to net the slowest.” 3/5: SHEEP 3/4: THEFT 3/3: LINEN 3/2: SLIME 3/1: FLUKE 3/28: HYDRA 2/27: DIZZY

New #wordlesentence! Homeowner Edition “Yesterday stank and shred my nerves like a lance turns a knight’s head into guava jelly; I shivered awake in the drafty attic, and found not one single buyer for the house.” 2/26: LANCE 2/25: SHRED 2/24: BUYER 2/23: ATTIC 2/22: GUAVA 2/21: AWAKE 2/20: STANK

Last night riding the subway felt like the nadir of stinky sad filthy mass transit in the winter. Standing in a car, suddenly realized there seemed to be effluvia from both ends of the mortal coil spattered on the floor. Quickly changed cars.

I've given up Catholicism for Lent. Problem solved.

This week’s #wordlesentence: Cowboy Character Actor Edition! “Ain’t no mogul but a mooch; he hoist his rowdy squad up here and roost in the busted barn, like moss that bloom acrost a cow skull.” 2/19: HOIST 2/18: MOGUL 2/17: SQUAD 2/16: ROOST 2/15: SKULL 2/14: BLOOM 2/13: MOOCH

Excellent review of an ugly but very urgent show. If you don't mind your blood running cold by shock jocks urging violence then being jolted by Nirvana's "Rape Me" seconds later, check it out. One is mentally translating the show to an American podcast recording in (looking at watch)...

Overhearing the chatter of people in their 20s and 30s while navigating crowded, snow-hedged sidewalks in the West Village on a Saturday afternoon is not conducive to wanting to stay in the city.

this week's #wordlesententence: PETA Avenger Edition! “A cello-sad bleat caused rage to surge and hammer like a gavel on her vegan heart, as she beheld a bloody scene that would embed in her brain for years.” 2/12: SURGE 2/11: VEGAN 2/10: SCENE 2/9: CELLO 2/8: EMBED 2/7: BLEAT 2/6: GAVEL

A European premiere tonight! www.instagram.com/p/DUfUwKnDcA...

This week’s #wordlesentence: Columbo Edition “Allot me one jumbo cigar to swoop in my mouth, and chide me not if said stogie stays unlit as I weigh and puzzle out spiny mysteries.” 2/5: SWOOP 2/4: CHIDE 2/4: WEIGH 2/4: CIGAR 2/4: SPINY 1/31: ALLOT 1/30: JUMBO

laundry machines in Europe are amazing. Small load takes 2 hours and comes out feeling dirtier than when it went in!

Check out the exuberant, subject-to-style match of Rhoda Feng's bravura review of ERS's "tasting menu" of Ulysses. Such flowing wit, intertextual frisking between page and her POV of stage & audience. Am gobbling, digesting... (tho not as long as scholars Joyce...) www.4columns.org/feng-rhoda/u...