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Howard Mittelmark
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Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · Jan 18
Occupant was my father's name. Call me Current Resident.
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stacyhorn.bsky.social
My event tonight will be livestreamed (for $10)! I know we’re supposed to have sub-zero temperatures tonight, so you can enjoy comedy and history from under a blanket!

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Tom D's Big New York Show
Comedian and certified tour guide Tom Delgado takes you on an entertaining tour of NYC with history, comedians, trivia, and special guests.
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February 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
howardm.bsky.social
Approaching the day when I don't remember how to say anything but "These fucking people."
February 5, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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elizmccrack.bsky.social
I just subscribed to @roncharles.bsky.social Substack because he's the greatest and Jeff Bezos is the worst:

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Ron Charles | Substack
I write about books for The Washington Post. I talk about books for CBS Sunday Morning. Click to read Ron Charles, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:16 PM
howardm.bsky.social
Surely there was somebody who didn't love Catherine O'Hara.
January 31, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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hahildebrand.bsky.social
They call them the Far Right but I actually think they are the Far Wrong
January 27, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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stacyhorn.bsky.social
Reminder! My next book event for The Killing Fields of East New York is at the Yorkville Public Library tomorrow, 5PM! 222 E.79th St. “Horn unspools a fast-paced and at times crackling yarn about the Brooklyn prosecutors and F.B.I. agents who pursued predatory lenders and brokers …” New York Times.
January 27, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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“when minnesotan balls freeze over” has the ring of idiom
January 26, 2026 at 8:03 PM
howardm.bsky.social
Thank god somebody is finally willing to take on this question. Excited to find out.
A picture of a woman in a fancy but questionable outfit, over the headline "Do I Need to Keep Up With Microtrends?"
January 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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mathewlyons.bsky.social
The day the late John Carey went too far.
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The critic cornered
The day the late John Carey went too far
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January 21, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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Man products from the early 2020s
- Ward Gambit Premium Detroit Denim
- Forest & Handbuckle Gentlemen Wallet
- Guycave Original Chukka Dress Slippers
- TrouserCraft Waist Belts
- Rooster & Hitch Original Barn Jackets
- American Beefboy Perfect Hoodie
- Thomas Lawman Cold Brew Chinos
January 21, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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coletteshade.bsky.social
One year ago today, @slate.com published an excerpt from my essay collection Y2K, which came out in January 2025. It’s a braided narrative about Y2K pop culture, time capsules, and millennial disappointment, and I’d appreciate if you gave it a read. slate.com/life/2024/12...
I Uncovered My Fifth Grade Time-Capsule Essay About the New Millennium. It Put So Much Into Perspective.
A look back on the hopefulness and heartbreak of the new millennium.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
howardm.bsky.social
Market Day in Olde New York, the streets abustle with Brooklyn Writers in their go-to-market best, carts piled high with fresh novels.
January 20, 2026 at 11:20 PM
howardm.bsky.social
Damn, that's good. You're hired. I'm putting you on my More Glamorous Lifestyle brain-trust team.
cityofbob.bsky.social Bob @cityofbob.bsky.social · 19d
But what about go-go-dancing dog-walkers......in space!!
January 20, 2026 at 3:51 PM
howardm.bsky.social
My plans for a glamorous and enviable lifestyle (drugs, mansions, personal chefs, go-go dancers, dogs, dog-walkers, go-go-dancing dog-walkers, etc.) could falter if publishers don't start paying me huge advances. Just saying. It's on you.
January 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM
howardm.bsky.social
[Joe Pesci voice]

You mean, let me understand this cause, you know maybe it's me, it's a little fucked up maybe, but I'm jaunty how? I mean, jaunty like I'm a boulevardier? What the fuck is so jaunty about me?
January 19, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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causticcovercritic.bsky.social
Nice to finally find myself described in literature:
“ never, I believe, have an intelligence so distinguished and a character so admirable been combined with interests for the most part so trivial.”
January 17, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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stevelieberart.bsky.social
Doodled a little bit of fan art! Visionary director Darren Nichols, on break from the New Burbage Shakespeare Festival. “I don’t hate the theater; I pity it.” #slingsandarrows
Ink sketch of an arty man in clashing patterns, sitting cross legged on the edge of a stage.
January 16, 2026 at 11:53 PM
howardm.bsky.social
It's only gambling if you're the gambler. Otherwise, it's wealth extraction.
January 16, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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Friday’s Ice Art and Poetry: today’s collaboration between artist Mark Mastroianni and myself. Here the poem came first. (Ice not ICE—art and poetry, by their nature are anti-ICE which is the enemy of life and wonder.)
A large rectangle of ice; embedded in its translucence are seed pods and ferns and various shapes, a great planet and the slopes of a gentle meadow. The sun, setting, is shining through with great pensiveness. The ice block is settled into a snow drift. The sun behind is lemon and the sky is layered with yellow. My poem “Drifts”—it reads: DRIFTS To live in a meadow at the waning of the year is to live in great drifts of days they pile up like clouds, then stream away. It is to stand under the fullness of the glittering as the cool air clears; to be eyed by Jupiter at the rising of the night; to walk with insects scattering, field mice darting dark through your path, shadows of a thought you just couldn't grasp. To have the dry grasses rustle; their sharp heads bowing. sparrows flit between. To live in a meadow at the waning is to feel the late life flower. One day it's teeming with ladybugs. Now the air is thick with drifts of milkweed seed; silken puffs, they seem to tug themselves from the pods, then sparkle up into the millions; they are all around us. The sun is beaming. Such sudden fecundity, profligate, overflowing, then gone. To live in a meadow at the waning, but the moon waxes on.
January 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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sarakatew.bsky.social
Hello, I am doing this now. It is for fun, and it is making me happy.
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About this
Ever since I was a little girl, I have longed to “post” without having to “engage.” Sara Kate's Bird of the Day is an attempt to force to people to look at my bird photos while I talk about them. Also...
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January 15, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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brianralexander.bsky.social
If you really want to go deep….

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The Milkman Cometh - Cincinnati Magazine
The long, winding tale of clever UC engineering student George Sperti, a nation fighting rickets, and a little money-maker called vitamin D.
www.cincinnatimagazine.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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hutchinsondave.bsky.social
I find myself, however briefly, and for the first time in ever such a long while, enormously happy.
The Essence by Dave Hutchinson: Review by Paul Di Filippo
The Essence, Dave Hutchinson (NewCon Press 978-1917735148, trade paperback, 278pp, $16.99) December 2025. Doesn’t the title of Dave Hutchinson’s standout new novel sound like something the late lam…
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January 15, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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calmtomb.bsky.social
The hardest I'd ever laughed in my 16 years at that point.
dailysimpsons.bsky.social On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 25d
33 years ago today, January 14, 1993: #TheSimpsons episode “Marge vs. the Monorail” first aired on Fox.
January 14, 2026 at 6:09 PM
howardm.bsky.social
Other progressives say that shrinking populations are the solution, to the actual problem.
January 14, 2026 at 12:52 AM