fran lebowitz is insufferable

listening to tangerine dream as loud as my portable record player's speakers will go, much to the cat's dismay, reading back issues of poetry magazine... life is but a dream

brooklyn 🤝 jersey city (who's gonna be at the paid protest show Friday?!) secure.actblue.com/donate/paidp...

spend my days crafting exquisite b2b omnichannel marketing campaigns and my nights writing press releases for the socialists i love... because somebody's got to do it

my old apartment just popped up on listings project for $500/month more than we paid in 2023 ($600 more than when we moved in circa 2020).

Immediately unsubscribed from this white lady who used to run a bridal boutique's Substack because I am genuinely gobsmacked that even the most solipsistic among us -- writers! -- believe NOW is the right time to wax poetic about how they feel unsafe in THE FUCKING HUDSON VALLEY...

kind of forget to post here but better that than the alternative, i think! anyway, what's everybody reading...

5!!!!!! HBD CYW 🥳 ♾️ ♥️

I brake for Susan Choi!!! yalereview.org/article/susa...

Paying a broker's fee is class traitor behavior! I really hope the effects of the new NYC policy (that broker's fees are on the landlords who hire them!) cross the river into NJ.

moon shot: can any of you get me on the list for show me the body 6/7 at night club 101?

i have both been the canary in the coal mine and also ignored the canary in the coal mine and my latest political evolution is to simply shriek like a manic macaw until we get shit fixed 🦜

i see you know antifa pikachu but have you ever met ICE out of LA labubu

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

first trip to the bronx was an old-fashioned deelite

NJ unemployment doesn't understand that I am absolutely CLOCKING IN... listening to gutteral chanting, annoying my cat, taking long walks across jersey city!

symptoms of the male loneliness epidemic: *men taking an abundance of selfies *men posting an abundance of selfies unashamedly on the grid *skeleton crew "friend" "group" *niche fandom taken too far

one perk of unemployment is the ability to yap with my bestie in a different time zone for hours during the middle of the day!

moon shot: can any of you get me on the list for show me the body 6/7 at night club 101?

life! finds a way!!

today has been dreadful but now i’m at the opera! it turns out the cure to a bone-deep weariness is just nosebleed opera seats with your friends!! spread the word!!!

i was all bluster earlier this week but the sensation of being like "please, PLEASE let me apply my decade of experience writing, marketing, and communicating to help you make more money and impact! PLEASE!" and then learning you'll make $5/hr more than minimum wage feels... quite bad

A thing I wrote that you should know about.

my ex just called charli xcx "chuck e. cheese music" and aside from how flagrantly wrong and dismissive that is, I want to know if they're hiding dr*gs in the animatronics

having a lot of MARXIST THOUGHTS post lay-off… also experiencing a lot of joy and perspective… one must imagine sisyphus happy, or so they say

i got LAID* …*off Please keep me in mind for any writing, content, or marketing roles you see, especially with a relationship to music, art, or social advocacy!

i adore this homage to sade, which is like a collage of her lyrics behind saxophonist joseph shabason's original melody! common dawn richard vocal W: josephshabason.bandcamp.com/track/broken...

if you don't love me at my burlington coat factory, you don't deserve me at my archival designer vintage

soooo annoyed at how self-conscious i now feel eating the plums out of the icebox 🙄

sometimes you come across something FORMALLY INVENTIVE that is also DEEPLY HUMAN & MOVING & you have to share it (RIYL found poetry, being gay, sex): ninthletter.com/2025/05/07/u...

had the best mother's day yet yesterday (clement drew me three pokemon of his own invention, we went thrifting, and i laid in the grass at lincoln park with taco bell)

ever since @squintintarantino.bsky.social introduced me to the concept of ‘exploitive purrs’ i cannot trust any buzzy rumble this young man offers me

I love fabulism and a lot of minimalist prose is drier than a saltine

i'm sorry but we all know the first American pope should have been from New Jersey

It's so funny to me because maybe I'm just a ~cool mom~ but when I encounter teens and young people they are almost unilaterally kind, encouraging of my self-expression, and appreciative of interesting style? But go off I guess

"Their records are super-inspiring. I feel like I can hear all of those guys in the room, just working it out, and it sounds so visceral, like you can feel it on your skin." #TundeAdebimpe on Can - Ege Bamyasi buff.ly/l7evt85

One of my favorite dreamy vintage stores is having a sale in case anyone needs this fur-trimmed white leather coat for next fall/winter: breathoftheearthvintage.com/products/196...

Andrew Cuomo joins Donald Trump and Lauren Boebert as a beneficiary of this Republican landlord's largesse.

i do not speak to my father but i take great pride in cultivating a clown collection that rivals his mother's (he hated her)

this apartment in jersey city is actually so cute and in the coolest neighborhood (you could rot at the pet shop bar or spend all your waking hours at white eagle hall) www.realtor.com/rentals/deta...

funerals should have a merch table

i don't know man, i feel like descartes' "i think, therefore i am" is kind of specious!!!

"Writing was in its origin the voice of an absent person," says Freud.

feeling kind of emo today; glimmer of hope

"when will my vintage skirt arrive from japan?" is the new "when will my husband return from sea?"

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

whoever is paying $91 for a vintage coach bag on the goodwill website obviously does not know we're in a recession

🗣️ I LOVE MSPAINT (the band) MORE THAN I LOVE MOST THINGS 🗣️