Look at some of the cool cat authors, who showed up to the release party for Panther City: Tales of a Gen X Grade 4 Class Project Run Amok. IDs in the alt description tinyurl.com/ayunpanth #booksky #author #photobooth @billroundwind.bsky.social

My favourite genre of Halloween decoration is biologically impossible skeletons

Just a few of the tastemakers who attended the PANTHER CITY release party at Quimby’s NYC last night… www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city #bookrelease #booksky #author

Channeling my inner 8 year old - she’s a maximalist - to decorate outgoing book order envelopes in Halloween style all this week. www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city #rubberstamps #halloween #booksky

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

I❤️NY #nokings

Thoughts on promoting my new book or anything really:The thing about throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks is boiling up all that spaghetti steals precious time from the next creative endeavor. Relatable? Pass the cheese tinyurl.com/ayunpanth #marketingtips #author #bookpromotion #genx

Children of the 70s: who remembers Dawn dolls? Who here had her “good friend” Ron? Coz me and Cousin Cindy did and we were psyched! If you like feeling groovy, you will like my new book, PANTHER CITY: Tales of a GenX Grade 3 Class Project Run Amok tinyurl.com/ayunpanth #genx #booksky #authorphoto

Was painting. Got sidetracked by pastels and kaiju.

New Book Recommendations (or Werner & Ayun & Anne) #bookish #newbook #author #comedy @alibera.bsky.social

Hither thine heiner to NYC for my book release party at Quimby’s on Friday 10/24 Can’t make it? I’m shipping out autographed copies now! tinyurl.com/ayunpanth Official release date 11/4. Your fave indie bookstore can also pre-order your copy from Ingrams. #booksky #genx #writingcommunity

Gitcher ding a dong on with the Wayfaring Strangers improvised bluegrass musical This Sunday at 7 at The PIT NYC tinyurl.com/waystrange @davidcarlactor.bsky.social @morgandenman.bsky.social #improv #comedy #newyorkcity

East Harlem dumpster knows what’s up. #dumpsterfire #resistance

Show me your unboxing face! Show me your extreme relief when the sample print copy you ordered passes muster sufficient to ordering several bazillion bushels more! And the govt shutdown won't effect media mail delivery! www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city #BookSky #authorsky #writingcommunity

Wayfaring Strangers improvised bluegrass musical returns to The PIT, NYC, Sunday, October 5 at 7 PM tinyurl.com/waystrange #improv #bluegrass #musicaltheater #newyorkcity

Snuck off to the Summer Palace for a minute… I never bring enough sweatshirts, and fall short of my grand creative plans but toujours gai. Swam in the ocean. Swam in the ponds. Beach 🔥. Not today, 🦈…

19 hours to preorder my new book Panther City: Tales of a Gen X Grade 3 Project Run Amok on @kickstarter.com We hit the stretch goal so everyone gets a digital context guide to some of the Indianapolis locations and 70s phenomena contained therein! #newbook #genx www.kickstarter.com/projects/ayu...

Everyone loves Ariel Gore and Ariel Gore loves Panther City! tinyurl.com/pantherkick @arielgore.bsky.social #memoir #novel #writingteacher

Everybody loves Jeff Hiller and Jeff Hiller loves Panther City! Order up Actress of a Certain Age! Order up Panther City #newbook #somebodysomewhere #genx

I’m the Abandoned New Cracker Barrel Logo, and You Can All Go Fuck Yourselves www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

Pre-order my new book, PANTHER CITY: Tales of a Gen X Third Grade Project Run Amok on @kickstarter.com An adult book, narrated by an 8-yr-old. Here's me the year the book takes place, and my 8-yr-old illustrator, 50 yrs later. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ayu... #kickstarter #newbook #genx

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

Happy Birthday to Alfred Lord Tennis Balls!

Got a new book coming this fall - PANTHER CITY: Tales of a GenX 3rd grade class project run amok. Fortified w/ 8 essential vitamins, a Teacher’s Edition, and illustrations by an actual 8-year-old. Not for kids. Stay tuned. Sneak peek: www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city #newbook #author

Gimme an A … and a man who plays the banjo. (Waiting to record a demo for THE END OF ALL FLESH outside the Creamery Studio in Bklyn on one of the hottest days of summer. Figured we should try our best to look cool…)

This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay the rescued tiger with his beloved ball..🥰😇 #bluesky

The Wayfaring Strangers are running off to play hooky for the rest of the summer. We’ll be back to improvising bluegrass musicals come fall. Join our mailing list and we’ll give you a holler when we’re back form.jotform.com/250076290687... #improv #bluegrass

East Village Inky freak out time: Milo has been on the planet for 1/4 century. We love him to pieces. #zine

Inky is one year older today and I’m getting on a plane to go see her ❤️🎈

Celebrate Bastille Day Eve in NYC with another Wayfaring Strangers improvised bluegrass musical. Special guest: Triceratops Vive la France. tinyurl.com/waystrange #improvcomedy #bluegrass #nyc

Uncle Monkeybutt and I MERshroomed it up in the Coney Island Mermaid Parade yesterday along with a few thousand quality New Yorkers and other assorted weirdos who know how to whip up some DIY fun without squandering tax dollars or violating international humanitarian principles #mermaidparade #i❤️ny

My review of art monster Katie Fricas' glorious graphic novel, Checked Out. Recommended for everyone, especially book lovers, #library workers, NYers, WW1 buffs, pigeon fans, & young queer artists in the big city. bookandfilmglobe.com/comics/check... #graphicnovel #bookreview

THIS SUNDAY at The PIT NYC. tinyurl.com/waystrange #improv #bluegrass #nyc

Rain? Pfft… #resist (with a side of skeeball after)

Good wrap up for those who couldn’t join us in person. Pride Gets a Medieval Twist at NYC’s St. John Cathedral hyperallergic.com/1017871/prid... #pride #costume

Public service announcement… magnettheater.com/show/59535/ #theater #bluegrass #musical

Too bad I’m so shy…

Sneak peek of EAST VILLAGE INKY 71, the Only Child of the 70s issue on I LOVE ZINES. Regret to inform: I don't have a Patreon or a Substack, so if you wanna throw me some support, you gotta subscribe to something tangible! youtu.be/XXYCS07dnWs?... #zine #amreading #author

Bustin’ out all over 29th Street this month. #notaeuphemism www.theater-of-the-apes.com/current-prod... #newyorkcity #theater

Lordy I love me some graphic hard sell: 4 more chances to gitcher tail to THE END OF ALL FLESH … after which yer dead to us! Dead! Y’hear me? magnettheater.com/show/59535/ #musicaltheater #newyorkcity #june

Click the photo to read reviewer Trav SD’s perfect character breakdown of Boy in THE END OF ALL FLESH. 4 Mondays left to catch Greg Kotis’ shockingly relevant post-apocalyptic hour-long bluegrass musical at The Magnet NYC tinyurl.com/endofallflesh #theater #musicaltheater #newyorkcity

Just modeling how you’ll feel if you fail to catch Greg Kotis’ post-apocalyptic bluegrass musical THE END OF ALL FLESH before we take our final bow… 4 more Mondays and then we’re gettin’ the hell off this mountain tinyurl.com/endofallflesh #musicaltheater #newyorkcity #topical

A glimpse of last Sunday’s Wayfaring Strangers improvised bluegrass musical. The suggestion was chocolate. We started with a song and ended with the king of Spain in a triple we also invented mocha. Next show is Sunday, 6 22 at The PIT tinyurl.com/waystrange #improvshow #musicalimprov #bluegrass

I conceived of CREATIVE, NOT FAMOUS: The Small Potato Manifesto as an etiquette guide for hard-hustling DIY artistes such as myself … but it ain’t half bad as therapy either! Sometimes you gotta take a page from your own book. www.ayunhalliday.com/shop/p/creat...

Whomp! There it is! East Village Inky no. 71 - the ONLY CHILD OF THE 70s ish! I don’t have a Patreon or a Substack. I just have this handwritten, illustrated, long running zine. If’n you wanna support me, subscribe! Or order a la carte www.ayunhalliday.com/zines #zine #diy #amreading

Neither rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor mail thieves fishing for checks with glue traps can keep East Village Inky 71 from its appointed rounds. Going to the printer today. How’s your subscription? www.ayunhalliday.com/zines #zines @altusps.bsky.social

EVOLUTION OF A COSTUME: During rehearsals for THE END OF ALL FLESH, the band told me that I was flashing everybody every time I sat on a peach crate or rolled around on the stage floor. 1. Jaisalmer, India, 1993 2. West Glover, Vermont, 1997 3. NYC 2025 tinyurl.com/endofallflesh 4. Bonus Twinsies

Mother’s Day: does not let you off the hook of show promotion, makes the teenage you feel seen in a package from the eldest, continues a tradition of maternal self-care and surprises you with an unexpected emissary from the BDSM community #mothersday

It's a love story, kinda. Details in the alt text. www.theater-of-the-apes.com #genderequality #smashthepatriarchy #younglove

I don’t need my triple-great-grandfather’s approval but it sure is nice to have Razorcake’s. Thanks for a great review! East Village Inky 68, is available here along with 2 more current issues. www.ayunhalliday.com East Village Inky 72, the Only Child of the 70s ish, is near done. #zines