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rax ‘levon honkers’ king

@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

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Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Nov 15

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 9h

so what you think you’re better than me

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h

this is the only good reason i’ve ever heard in favor of hardcover!

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h

that’s right

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13h

wow was the original quote ‘the customer is always right in matters of taste’? should we throw a party? should we invite some other pedantic people who definitely knew what i meant?

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14h

basically this yeah!

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14h

the price point of hardcover books is too high for me to want to risk buying a book i won’t like, treat hardcover like a collectors item or something

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14h

more of a publishing opinion than a literary one i guess, but books should come out in paperback first and then do a hardcover release farther down the road

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14h

honestly i’m not sure i am going to do that

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14h

i also found a secret adam & the ants joint that neither my husband nor i can remember buying lol

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 14h

Every record collection includes at least two George Jones haircuts, but it's almost impossible to pinpoint which ones you have. Check your records, there's a good chance you have a couple in there.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

reorganizing my records on this rainy holiday. turns out i own every single george jones haircut

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Christian Lane is my name not a preachy road @chrstianlane.bsky.social · 14h

Eras

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

reorganizing my records on this rainy holiday. turns out i own every single george jones haircut

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

dammit

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

roger miller could defeat all of animal collective with a medium-withering remark

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

reorganizing my records on this rainy holiday. turns out i own every single george jones haircut

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

morgan freeman and ken kesey…two great tastes that taste great together

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

i have something like 7 roger miller records and nary a one of them has a skippable track!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

roger miller made approximately 400 records, and every time i’m in a record store i find one of them in the $5 bin, and every last one of them has been a treasure

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 18h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 16h

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

how do i ensure that i never fall victim to whatever brain disease makes these people talk this bullshit

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h

some of us weren’t blindsided by a great dwayne johnson performance…some of us remember pain & gain…

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h

it makes me sad that this movie has already been sort of filed away as a flop because he’s genuinely great in it and i want to see him in more dramatic roles

IGN @ign.com · 6d

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has issued a statement after The Smashing Machine became the Hollywood star's worst box office opening ever.

'You Can't Control Box Office Results' — Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Responds to The Smashing Machine's Disappointing Launch

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19h

we really loved it fwiw!

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