Daniel Paisner
@danielpaisner.bsky.social
novelist/ghostwriter/podcaster/beardo
Author: SHOW; BALLOON DOG; A SINGLE HAPPENED THING; MOURNING WOOD; THE BALL; OBIT
Co-Author: HEAVEN HELP US (John Kasich); UNFORGIVING (Lindsey Jacobellis); BLUE (Steve Aoki)
Host: AS TOLD TO
danielpaisner.com
Author: SHOW; BALLOON DOG; A SINGLE HAPPENED THING; MOURNING WOOD; THE BALL; OBIT
Co-Author: HEAVEN HELP US (John Kasich); UNFORGIVING (Lindsey Jacobellis); BLUE (Steve Aoki)
Host: AS TOLD TO
danielpaisner.com
Pinned
another merch-in-the-wild spotting - posted here in the neverending tush-push to promote my hardly-read 2022 indie novel about the bungled theft of a #JeffKoons #balloondog sculpture... woof!...
#writinglife #indiepress #indieauthor #fiction #artheist #darkhumor #shopindie #BookSky
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#writinglife #indiepress #indieauthor #fiction #artheist #darkhumor #shopindie #BookSky
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keeping it 100!...
@alexdemille.bsky.social
@writersbone.com
@simonandschuster.bsky.social
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@alexdemille.bsky.social
@writersbone.com
@simonandschuster.bsky.social
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Episode 100: Alex DeMille
Podcast Episode · As Told To · 11/18/2025 · 1h
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November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"One of the many problems with installing an amoral doofus without a coherent governing philosophy at the helm of the world’s richest nation is that [he] will then behave as an amoral doofus without a coherent governing philosophy." @michaelianblack.bsky.social
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Travel Plans For Thanksgiving? We’re All Headed to Crazy Town
Forget fighting over politics at the Thanksgiving dinner table, because we can all agree that the United States is (over)cooked.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"One of the many problems with installing an amoral doofus without a coherent governing philosophy at the helm of the world’s richest nation is that [he] will then behave as an amoral doofus without a coherent governing philosophy." @michaelianblack.bsky.social
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ah, the voiceless labial-alveolar plosive...
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Trump, 79, Has Baffling Plan to Rename the Republican Party After Himself
The president’s new nickname idea is not one of his best.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
ah, the voiceless labial-alveolar plosive...
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"He was doing his analog thing, I was working digitally, and his assistant was kind of a translator between us." @alexdemille.bsky.social
on his #collabofathon with his father, the late #NelsonDeMille
@writersbone.com #BookSky #writing @simonandschuster.bsky.social
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on his #collabofathon with his father, the late #NelsonDeMille
@writersbone.com #BookSky #writing @simonandschuster.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3oa9...
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"He was doing his analog thing, I was working digitally, and his assistant was kind of a translator between us." @alexdemille.bsky.social
on his #collabofathon with his father, the late #NelsonDeMille
@writersbone.com #BookSky #writing @simonandschuster.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3oa9...
on his #collabofathon with his father, the late #NelsonDeMille
@writersbone.com #BookSky #writing @simonandschuster.bsky.social
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"The Harder They Come" was THE midnight movie of my growing up... not a great movie, but such a vibe... such a soundtrack...
#JimmyCliff #RIP
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#JimmyCliff #RIP
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Jimmy Cliff, Singer Who Helped Bring Reggae to Global Audience, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"The Harder They Come" was THE midnight movie of my growing up... not a great movie, but such a vibe... such a soundtrack...
#JimmyCliff #RIP
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#JimmyCliff #RIP
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"The neighborhood I fell asleep in that night was rich — not just in terms of wealth, but in culture, community, heritage — and my family had a beautiful home. Within a few hours, all that was gone.” - #ViolaFletcher
#BlackWallStreet #Tulsa
#history #memoir #RIP
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#BlackWallStreet #Tulsa
#history #memoir #RIP
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Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"The neighborhood I fell asleep in that night was rich — not just in terms of wealth, but in culture, community, heritage — and my family had a beautiful home. Within a few hours, all that was gone.” - #ViolaFletcher
#BlackWallStreet #Tulsa
#history #memoir #RIP
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#BlackWallStreet #Tulsa
#history #memoir #RIP
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gloves are off at the Grand Old Party...
Just received this aggressive, tone-deaf-ish email, with the following subject heading: "We've tried to be patient with you..."
(and yet they still consider me a "friend"...)
#partypolitics
Just received this aggressive, tone-deaf-ish email, with the following subject heading: "We've tried to be patient with you..."
(and yet they still consider me a "friend"...)
#partypolitics
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
gloves are off at the Grand Old Party...
Just received this aggressive, tone-deaf-ish email, with the following subject heading: "We've tried to be patient with you..."
(and yet they still consider me a "friend"...)
#partypolitics
Just received this aggressive, tone-deaf-ish email, with the following subject heading: "We've tried to be patient with you..."
(and yet they still consider me a "friend"...)
#partypolitics
hmmm... good old days or sign of the times?... brunch today at the farm-to-table-ish eatery #Ol'days in #Tribeca came with a surprising $2 charge for #ketchup... WTF?
a man is sitting at a table with a plate of food and a bottle of ketchup in his hand .
ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a plate of food and a bottle of ketchup in his hand .
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November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
weekend listening...
"He was doing his analog thing, I was working digitally, and his assistant was kind of a translator between us." @alexdemille.bsky.social
on his #collabofathon with his father, the late #NelsonDeMille
@writersbone.com #BookSky #writing @simonandschuster.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3oa9...
on his #collabofathon with his father, the late #NelsonDeMille
@writersbone.com #BookSky #writing @simonandschuster.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3oa9...
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
weekend listening...
yes yes yes...
"What matters is that the words get in, the brain makes meaning and the identity of being a reader takes hold." - #BrianBannon
#amreading #amlistening
#BookSky #AudioBookSky
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
"What matters is that the words get in, the brain makes meaning and the identity of being a reader takes hold." - #BrianBannon
#amreading #amlistening
#BookSky #AudioBookSky
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
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Opinion | Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
yes yes yes...
"What matters is that the words get in, the brain makes meaning and the identity of being a reader takes hold." - #BrianBannon
#amreading #amlistening
#BookSky #AudioBookSky
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
"What matters is that the words get in, the brain makes meaning and the identity of being a reader takes hold." - #BrianBannon
#amreading #amlistening
#BookSky #AudioBookSky
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
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this lede's got legs...
@danrobson.bsky.social
#BrandonAubrey #FootballSky #NFL #TheLeg
www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
@danrobson.bsky.social
#BrandonAubrey #FootballSky #NFL #TheLeg
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The NFL’s long-distance kicking revolution: ‘70 will be the new 60’
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
this lede's got legs...
@danrobson.bsky.social
#BrandonAubrey #FootballSky #NFL #TheLeg
www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
@danrobson.bsky.social
#BrandonAubrey #FootballSky #NFL #TheLeg
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so apparently there's a "raw denim community" made up (mostly) of men who "treat wearing jeans not just as a daily necessity, but as an act of cotton-based metamorphosis bordering on fetish"... who knew?...
#Style
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#Style
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His Jeans Are Gigantic. His Internet Fame Is Too.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
so apparently there's a "raw denim community" made up (mostly) of men who "treat wearing jeans not just as a daily necessity, but as an act of cotton-based metamorphosis bordering on fetish"... who knew?...
#Style
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#Style
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
"He was doing his analog thing, I was working digitally, and his assistant was kind of a translator between us." @alexdemille.bsky.social
on his #collabofathon with his father, the late #NelsonDeMille
@writersbone.com #BookSky #writing @simonandschuster.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3oa9...
on his #collabofathon with his father, the late #NelsonDeMille
@writersbone.com #BookSky #writing @simonandschuster.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3oa9...
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"He was doing his analog thing, I was working digitally, and his assistant was kind of a translator between us." @alexdemille.bsky.social
on his #collabofathon with his father, the late #NelsonDeMille
@writersbone.com #BookSky #writing @simonandschuster.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3oa9...
on his #collabofathon with his father, the late #NelsonDeMille
@writersbone.com #BookSky #writing @simonandschuster.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3oa9...
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"I definitely did think of it as a #NelsonDeMille novel, because there was no such thing as an #AlexDeMille novel." - @alexdemille.bsky.social on starting in on his first #collaboration with his father...
#writing #writinglife #BookSky #TheTinMen @writersbone.com
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#writing #writinglife #BookSky #TheTinMen @writersbone.com
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November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"I definitely did think of it as a #NelsonDeMille novel, because there was no such thing as an #AlexDeMille novel." - @alexdemille.bsky.social on starting in on his first #collaboration with his father...
#writing #writinglife #BookSky #TheTinMen @writersbone.com
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#writing #writinglife #BookSky #TheTinMen @writersbone.com
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ADRIEN BRODY'S LONG-AGED WHISKEY:
"Each barrel of this pretentious dram was filled when #AdrienBrody started his Oscars speech and bottled when he finished. The result is a smooth, robust flavor that can’t be played off the stage." - @evoooooooooooo.bsky.social
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"Each barrel of this pretentious dram was filled when #AdrienBrody started his Oscars speech and bottled when he finished. The result is a smooth, robust flavor that can’t be played off the stage." - @evoooooooooooo.bsky.social
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Lesser-Known Celebrity-Owned Alcohol Brands
Featuring Walton Goggins’s Weirdly Hot Jalapeño Tequila and Sydney Sweeney’s Pure White Rum.
www.newyorker.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
ADRIEN BRODY'S LONG-AGED WHISKEY:
"Each barrel of this pretentious dram was filled when #AdrienBrody started his Oscars speech and bottled when he finished. The result is a smooth, robust flavor that can’t be played off the stage." - @evoooooooooooo.bsky.social
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"Each barrel of this pretentious dram was filled when #AdrienBrody started his Oscars speech and bottled when he finished. The result is a smooth, robust flavor that can’t be played off the stage." - @evoooooooooooo.bsky.social
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yes yes yes...
"If you are a person of influence in this country, maybe it's time to pick a fucking side." - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
"If you are a person of influence in this country, maybe it's time to pick a fucking side." - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
yes yes yes...
"If you are a person of influence in this country, maybe it's time to pick a fucking side." - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
"If you are a person of influence in this country, maybe it's time to pick a fucking side." - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
when you've played over 300 WWF games with your boyhood pal and your total scores are separated by a single point...
#WordsWithFriends #evenmatch
#WordsWithFriends #evenmatch
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
when you've played over 300 WWF games with your boyhood pal and your total scores are separated by a single point...
#WordsWithFriends #evenmatch
#WordsWithFriends #evenmatch
mad skills...
The AI fever dream features an unusually spry-looking Donald Trump juggling a ball with soccer legend Cristiano Ronaldo.
Trump, 79, Posts Crazy AI Video of Him as Brilliant Athlete
The president dropped the bizarre Truth Social video days after he admitted he was awful at soccer.
trib.al
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
mad skills...
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you can find our podcast on #writing in #collaboration on all pod platforms... gotta love the @goodpods.bsky.social interface... and gotta love this conversation w. @alexdemille.bsky.social about his third and final collaboration with his father, the late, great #NelsonDeMille
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
Episode 100: Alex DeMille - | Listen on GoodPods™
Nelson and Alex DeMille's The Tin Men is an electrifying read and a chillingly timely one," writes The New York Times best-selling novelist Megan...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
you can find our podcast on #writing in #collaboration on all pod platforms... gotta love the @goodpods.bsky.social interface... and gotta love this conversation w. @alexdemille.bsky.social about his third and final collaboration with his father, the late, great #NelsonDeMille
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
you can find our podcast on #writing in #collaboration on all pod platforms... gotta love the @goodpods.bsky.social interface... and gotta love this conversation w. @alexdemille.bsky.social about his third and final collaboration with his father, the late, great #NelsonDeMille
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
Episode 100: Alex DeMille - | Listen on GoodPods™
Nelson and Alex DeMille's The Tin Men is an electrifying read and a chillingly timely one," writes The New York Times best-selling novelist Megan...
go.goodpods.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
you can find our podcast on #writing in #collaboration on all pod platforms... gotta love the @goodpods.bsky.social interface... and gotta love this conversation w. @alexdemille.bsky.social about his third and final collaboration with his father, the late, great #NelsonDeMille
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
. @washingtonpost.com editorial board on our so-called president's latest disgrace:
"The reality is that while Trump advocates peace through strength, he showed nothing but debility. No doubt other dictators took note."
@postopinions.bsky.social
#ThingsHappen
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"The reality is that while Trump advocates peace through strength, he showed nothing but debility. No doubt other dictators took note."
@postopinions.bsky.social
#ThingsHappen
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Opinion | ‘Things happen’
Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
. @washingtonpost.com editorial board on our so-called president's latest disgrace:
"The reality is that while Trump advocates peace through strength, he showed nothing but debility. No doubt other dictators took note."
@postopinions.bsky.social
#ThingsHappen
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"The reality is that while Trump advocates peace through strength, he showed nothing but debility. No doubt other dictators took note."
@postopinions.bsky.social
#ThingsHappen
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
in which #AnnemareConte of the @nytwirecutter.bsky.social discovers "a whole heap of sadness..."
#stuff #mysterypallet #returnedgoods
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#stuff #mysterypallet #returnedgoods
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We Bought a 450-Pound Mystery Pallet Packed With Returned Goods From Amazon and Beyond. Here’s What We Found Inside.
Pallets of overstock, returned, and undelivered-mail packages are an indicator of just how much stuff there is in the retail ecosystem.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
in which #AnnemareConte of the @nytwirecutter.bsky.social discovers "a whole heap of sadness..."
#stuff #mysterypallet #returnedgoods
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#stuff #mysterypallet #returnedgoods
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