rax ‘levon honkers’ king

rax ‘levon honkers’ king

@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.

60,435 Followers 819 Following 12,221 Posts Joined Apr 2023
5 minutes ago
protecting kevin hart meme

defending adrian chiles from the tasteless rabble

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50 minutes ago

Could go either way

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10 minutes ago

all the adrian chiles haters in the replies

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48 minutes ago

no shade on anyone reading this but he's the best journalist currently working on anything anywhere

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1 hour ago
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What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022 “Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

*taps internet microphone*

After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...

We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...

lithub.com/what-was-los...

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1 hour ago

lmao he thought i meant the german terrorist cell he was like babe come on we’re on a plane

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sean: that’s funny i was just thinking about the movie cool runnings and here it is on the plane
me, nodding: baader-meinhof
sean who has never heard of the baader-meinhof effect: why did you just say ‘baader-meinhof’

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some guy who looked actively dopesick tried to cut me in the security line and when i objected he was like ‘but my plane is boarding in five minutes.’ damn sounds like you should’ve left your house about an hour earlier than you did

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do they practice holding up lines? do they run drills on clueless obliviousness?

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where do these people go when they’re not at the airport tormenting me? what do they do with their lives?

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i love to come to the airport where i get to hang out with about one thousand of the most maladjusted human beings of all time

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2 hours ago

(explaining weather to marylanders) imagine a crab cake

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13 hours ago

This spring, Nicole Kidman IS Agent Melody Scungo in: SCUNGO, streaming on Hulu. This summer, Nicole Kidman IS Dr. Hortense Kraggler in: KRAGGLER, a Peacock exclusive. This fall, Nicole Kidman IS Countess Artemisia Punce in: PUNCE, a Tubi original

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3 hours ago

i’m an accelerationist for the sole reason that i want to see polecats

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3 hours ago

lmao let’s goooo

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11 hours ago

the whole piece was fun but this is the part i am still thinking about tonight

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11 hours ago

found a full sleeve of ritz crackers in the pocket of my raincoat which may be the homeliest thing i ever said in my life

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11 hours ago

I super loved--still do, I guess--his earliest stuff, but being extremely rich and comfortable has not been kind to him. His writing about Tiffany was rough but his writing about his behavior during the covid lockdowns was it for me. Have fun in provence or the UWS or airport lounges dude, I'm out

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Naturalized Nigerian / Unnatural tracks Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún on an English scholar in Nigeria; new works from Luke O’Neil

TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social on the life of the British-born scholar David Jowitt and his explorations of Nigerian English. "In 2023, a few months before his death, he finally became a Nigerian citizen, fulfilling a long-held dream." flaminghydra.com/issue-520/#e...

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omg i just saw your comment about it!

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This perfectly encapsulates the “don’t meet your heroes” vibe I got going to a Sedaris reading last fall.

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13 hours ago
Collecting my child's ravaged corpse from the school crater

No no it was a mistake on the computer actually. The missile. A.I. they said. I don’t know how it works either but they messed up the targeting somehow. So all in all just one of those things. Come. Help me lift her here. Gently now.

Motto 2

We were singing about the dark times during the dark times and no one gave a shit. Shut the fuck up they said. 

Persons living or dead 

You have to imagine the last guy he ever drank margaritas at the mall with was like what hell Dave? Whole time I thought we were having a few laughs there. Talked mostly about the game. I didn’t know you were thinking all that.

5 new ones including this one above by me at @flaminghydra.com today flaminghydra.com/how-they-get...

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12 hours ago

it would be dishonorable and unsportsmanlike to make fun of you for being 90 years old on this post

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lol at the image results being @wordloaf.org’s author photo three times at three different levels of zoom

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The Bombing of Iran’s Azadi Stadium Is Straight Out of Israel’s Gaza Script Israel has long targeted sport facilities and athletes in Gaza. Now with US help, it’s doing the same thing in Iran.

ESPN isn't covering the bombing of one the most famous stadiums on earth so.... my latest piece @thenation.com "The Razing of Iran’s Azadi Stadium Is Straight Out of Israel’s Gaza Script" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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14 hours ago

this week’s newsletter is out today instead of friday because friday i will be attempting to steal every object that isn’t bolted down outta trotsky’s house! enjoy!

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the important thing i think is that they get comfortable now with living in federal facilities

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