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John Leavitt

@leavittalone.bsky.social

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@Leavittalone from Twitter . Writer and cartoonist. Seen in The Toast, New Yorker, The Awl, The Nib, Racked, The Rumpus, The Baffler, etc. That guy you met at that party once. http://www.leavittalone.com/

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello new followers, here is a sadly still relevant presentation I gave about What Is To Be Done www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6GH...

John Leavitt talks ethical consumption under capitalism @ Drunk Educate

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 8h

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Gremlins 2 'New York New York' Complete Musical Sequence

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 8h

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Ace Frehley - New York Groove (1978)

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 8h

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New York City Cops

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Judy Garland: I Happen To Like New York

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 8h

i love my city and my city loves me www.youtube.com/watch?v=54mo...

La Revacholiere

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 8h

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Mud - Dyna-Mite (Dynamite) • TopPop

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Amiel- Meet Me In The Red Room

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 8h

look the anglicans are good that I'm not going to their congregations

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 9h

i need my gold sunglasses and lavender gloves to look at your shit

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 9h

anyway I bought vintage lavander gloves as a result of this

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 9h

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Last Night In Soho

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 9h

look I've been friends and "friends" with clergy www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXZu...

Chappell Roan - Naked in Manhattan (Official Music Video)

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 9h

"religious, slightly older then me, grandmas loves him" yeah this is a guy designed in a lab for me to destroy

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 9h

He was sitting on the steps on the church with a bunch of grandmas blessing prayer beads and my only thought was oh I could work that no problem

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 9h

all atangle

a soundly sleeping fluffy white and gray tabby cat with her limbs all poking out every which way

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 9h

people say Millennials aren't religious but I saw a hot priest today thought oh could I do a mid-century novel to him?

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 9h

the basic gripe I had with learning to play is it hurt my hands and I need my hands to make a living

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Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 9h

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 10h

ACELE - Ah! No. This is a *contact microphone*, it's for recording *inside* solid objects. Contact Mike just beats people up.

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Sarah 💫 @harrietvane.bsky.social · 10h

It’s possible, but not likely, that EM Forster listened to the cast recording of Company.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 10h

genetically I SHOULD play honky-tonk but I refused the call to do paintings

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 10h

You know about Mitch Ryder right bsky.app/profile/elec...

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · Jul 28

A fantastic example of a 'wait, this EXISTS' album from 1978: by the 60s Detroit white R&B legend and key Springsteen/Seger/Mellencamp touchstone Mitch Ryder, mostly co-written with his wife, about his experiences in the gay underground music.apple.com/us/album/how...

How I Spent My Vacation by Mitch Ryder on Apple Music

Album · 1978 · 9 Songs

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · Dec 2

I only patronage bars my Mom has baked actual cookies for, it;s called being communal

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · Dec 2

one time I brought a friend to a bar and as entered www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXy7... started to play and we got instant whiskey shots and he went "do you only take people to bars you are the mayor of" and like yes obviously I have given these people candy

Devil with a blue dress - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 10h

walk into a place where the bartender high-fives you, easy access

John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 16h

Once again proving an easy way to seem cool is to only take friends to bars that you are technically the mayor of