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David Lawson

@lawsononstage.bsky.social

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I talk onstage. Host of the Astoria Bookshop Storytelling Show, 1st Thursdays every month. He/him/his. #BlackLivesMatter.

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David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · May 27

I’ve finished my first semester in Baruch College’s MA Arts Administration program. I got two As and a B+. Even with 17 years away from a classroom, adjusting to classes where I read the Harvard Business Review and had to define promissory estoppel, I felt fearless. More to come this fall.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 4h

In the crowd yesterday for No Other Choice, the new Park Chan-wook movie, at the New York Film Festival. A funny, thrilling, mean, beautiful movie about doing the wrong thing in the face of awful breaks. A story about one person that zoomed out and became wildly timely about right now. I loved it.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 1d

#FridayReads: Omar El Akkad takes us on his personal journey from Egypt to Qatar to Canada to the USA. Offering sharp, essential critiques of The West, ones that have only been made sharper by its complicity and support of the genocide in Gaza. A great book that feels incredibly urgent to right now.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 2d

A thing I love about the art at the Astoria Blvd subway station is at night it acts as a natural camera filter for Triborough Bridge traffic. “I AM A RAINBOW TOO” by Jeffrey Gibson.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 3d

The IFC Center peephole. Next time you’re at West 3rd Street and 6th Avenue stop by and you can see what’s playing on (some) of the screen in IFC’s Theatre 3.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 4d

FRIDAY 11/7 at 8:30pm! I will be performing my one-man show Sportsball in the 2025 Gotham Storytelling Festival! Sliding scale tix start at $7! At Under St. Marks AND live steaming the show online. Stream tix not yet onsale but in-person are. See you then! tickets.frigid.nyc/event/6897:1...

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 5d

Yesterday I attended The Rolling Library’s Queer Book Club on the bustling 31st Avenue Open Streets. Great talk about Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany: “Connecting” vs. “networking,” when a scene doesn’t relocate, but entirely ends, the importance of journaling in memoir.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 8d

Last night at The Astoria Bookshop Storytelling Show we heard about waiting til the 4th date, last trip with mom, 1st heartbreak, pet setting, cursive, a pizzeria fight, an awful job interview, an autographed hat, working at a bookstore, collecting hard hats, a friend beating cancer. Next show 11/6.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 8d

Another 25 hour Yom Kippur fast is over. It is always meaningful for me to feel that hunger, think of ways I was not who I want to be in the past year, imagine how I can be better in the new year, and to get the slightest hint of an idea of what the desperation of deep hunger does to the human mind.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 10d

TOMORROW! 7pm! The October 2025 @astoriabookshop.bsky.social Storytelling Show! Free storytelling open mic! Show up, throw your name in the bucket, and perform a true, no theme, 5 minute story about something that happened to you! RSVP by emailing david at dtlawson dot com! See you at the show!

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 10d

Eddington, Sorry Baby, Weapons, Daddy Longlegs, The Red Shoes.

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eva (scary) @eva.town · 10d

beautiful city full of beautiful angry people 😌

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 11d

It has been very heartening to see so many people tagging these NYC subway ads for an “AI friend” service. We already have an organic “large language model”: Commuting New Yorkers with pens.

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David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 11d

It has been very heartening to see so many people tagging these NYC subway ads for an “AI friend” service. We already have an organic “large language model”: Commuting New Yorkers with pens.

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David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 11d

I love these posts and this is the hardest month yet!

Bugonia, It Was Just An Accident, The Smashing Machine, The Mastermind.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 12d

For years I’ve wanted to catch a Phillies home game with Paige’s family on a trip to her native Philadelphia. Yesterday I caught the Phillies Game 162 with the LaRoss gang. Took SEPTA there. Caught a walkoff win. A huge thank you to Donna for the birthday scoreboard shoutout!

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 13d

Astoria Stands Against ICE rally yesterday at Malikah on Steinway Street, Rana Abdelhamid speaking.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 14d

I turn 40 today. I refuse to give into the Sad Birthday Industrial Complex. Aging, and the perspective and wisdom that comes with it, is a gift and a privilege. One I’ve seen denied to far too many people. So instead I’ll give in to the Post a Cute Selfie on Your Landmark Birthday Industrial Complex

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David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 16d

A WEEK FROM TONIGHT is the October 2025 @astoriabookshop.bsky.social Storytelling Show! RSVP email to david at dtlawson dot com if you want to show up, throw your name in the bucket, and perform a true, no theme, 5 minute story about something that happened to you! See you at the show!

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 16d

I caught the Lionel Messi Show in Queens tonight. He scored twice. NYCFC had a GTA-themed banner drop and a giant inflatable pigeon outside the ballpark. I laughed very hard as an NYCYC fan taunted someone on Inter Miami CF after a yellow card…with a Metrocard.

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Jimmy G @leontrout.bsky.social · 18d

Bummer, introduced by @lawsononstage.bsky.social. Sad to see the project go

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 18d

Extremely sorry to hear that Bluestockings is closing effective immediately. It was a terrific bookstore and I will miss it.

Bluestockings Cooperative

Bluestockings Cooperative: Established in 1999, Worker-Owned since 2021. Located at 116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002. One of NYC's only queer, trans, sex-worker run bookstores.

bluestockings.com

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David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 18d

Lovely to gather with friends last night for Rosh Hashanah. Express gratitude for fruit, hope for a sweet 5786, and…in perhaps my favorite blessing in Judaism…express gratitude at having reached the only thing that ever exists: The present moment we have arrived at. L’shanah tova. לְשָׁנָה טוֹבָה.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 19d

Bootlicking fascists has been Disney company policy since the very start. (From the Blacklisted: An American Story exhibition currently at The New York Historical).

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 20d

The 39th Annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Broadway Flea Market. I bought a $5 published edition of David Drake’s one-man show The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 22d

This is a fantastic sounding, free, new open mic at @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Instead of sharing your own writing, you share some one else’s writing you love. It’s like #FridayReads posts, but in the form of a live show.

David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 23d

The October 2025 @astoriabookshop.bsky.social Storytelling Show is TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT! RSVP to david at dtlawson dot com if you want to show up, throw your name in the bucket, and perform a true, no theme, 5 minute story about something that happened to you! See you there!

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David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 24d

Same joke twice on the same block.