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John Leavitt

@leavittalone.bsky.social

@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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Okay but the thing is, the thing is, the Viking inspired comb made by Ukrainian blacksmiths from historical models is actually very good at tackling longer, coarser beard hair especially when used with oil

29.01.2026 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Ansel Elgort - Something's Coming (From "West Side Story")
YouTube video by DisneyMusicVEVO Ansel Elgort - Something's Coming (From "West Side Story")

maybe it will be tomorrow www.youtube.com/watch?v=eolL...

02.03.2026 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely(1961οΌ‰
YouTube video by BIGATE RECORDS Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely(1961οΌ‰

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip10...

02.03.2026 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Roy Orbison & Friends (1988)
YouTube video by scorchedVHS Roy Orbison & Friends (1988)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCse...

02.03.2026 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night
YouTube video by CyndiLauperVEVO Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y1T...

02.03.2026 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Blue Bayou
YouTube video by Roy Orbison - Topic Blue Bayou

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kri4...

02.03.2026 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Crying
YouTube video by Roy Orbison - Topic Crying

anyway www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMAT...

02.03.2026 06:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Roy Orbison - Crying (Monument Concert 1965)
YouTube video by RoyOrbisonVEVO Roy Orbison - Crying (Monument Concert 1965)
02.03.2026 06:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Roy Orbison - In Dreams (Audio)
YouTube video by RoyOrbisonVEVO Roy Orbison - In Dreams (Audio)

So there was an Art Installation in Chelsea where you walked down a long hallway that got slowly and quietly smaller and narrower and less uneven while this played and it legit felt dreamlike www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSeI...

02.03.2026 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night (Video)
YouTube video by RoyOrbisonVEVO Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night (Video)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5N9...

02.03.2026 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Roy Orbison - Running Scared (Audio)
YouTube video by RoyOrbisonVEVO Roy Orbison - Running Scared (Audio)

anyway I missed Roy's birthday so www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7M-...

02.03.2026 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
1963 HITS ARCHIVE: Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton (a #1 record)
YouTube video by The45Prof 1963 HITS ARCHIVE: Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton (a #1 record)

won won won www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ur...

02.03.2026 06:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blue Velvet (BFI Film Classics) by Michael Atkinson (Paperback, USED) For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch 's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the avant-garde; a mys...

3 copies left of the pocket-sized BFI book about Blue Velvet: mzs.press/Blue-Velvet-...

02.03.2026 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

tonight I'm learning the New York Times is just a blameless smol bean that's not responsible for what it chooses to publish, really eye opening stuff happening in the ol timeline

02.03.2026 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 198    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

Cops when faced with an encampment or protest site, a vigil or an art work, they attack it reflexively at the level of aesthetics first, they rip down ornament or posters or decor, beauty offends and terrifies them

02.03.2026 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Does anybody have the link for the NYT Opinion piece about how Iran should have nukes to defend its sovereignty? I’m searching but all I’m finding are pieces by Tom Friedman and Bret Stephens making weird comparisons between Israel and a Japanese schoolgirl walking home in a rough neighbourhood

02.03.2026 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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SIGNED A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. A Following his underground hit Eraserhead and critically acclaimed The Elephant Man , visionary filmmaker David Lynch set his sights on bringing Frank Herbert’s beloved sci-fi novel Dune to the screen.

We still have a few signed copies left of the first printing of @maxevry.bsky.social's staggeringly thorough history of the 1984 David Lynch version of Dune. It has a black satin ribbon marker and red foil gilded edges and is so big you could do arm curls with it. mzs.press/SIGNED-A-Mas...

02.03.2026 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway I accidentally ran into the author of this paper twice in like a week during the height of occupy and I didn’t know ho to say I’m not stalking you we’re ideologically aligned

02.03.2026 06:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was not the cock magnet you’d imagine but whatever www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0096.html

02.03.2026 06:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œBeing beautiful is Alice's job… Hers is the daytime regimen of a courtesan (or an actress), devoted to the rigorous maintenance of her looks. She's associated, more than any other character, with mirrors”

02.03.2026 06:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Again remembering back in the Manhunt for net days my profile text was from a Marxist review of Eyes Wide Shut and I didn’t get a lot of guys but all of them are now old friends and or people I kind of know who work in TV

02.03.2026 06:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Post wash pre condition hair

02.03.2026 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
02.03.2026 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 543    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
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Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

02.03.2026 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 402    πŸ” 212    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 30

Cooing different names at him while he flops around and purrs.

β€œEvinrude Beauregard Waffle House I”

02.03.2026 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 0
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the empire lasted for 25 years and this was the most normal heterosexual couple their administrative elite could produce

02.03.2026 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

He’s being a good cat uncle in the worst way possible

02.03.2026 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

84% of the time, β€œChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

01.03.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1360    πŸ” 662    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 46

Hey stop that Scott’s appendex

02.03.2026 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

as an empath, my body has responded to current events by developing acute appendicitis.
(dictated by Scott from hospital bed, transcribed by Bethany)

02.03.2026 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 680    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 0