Christian Bauman
@christianbauman.bsky.social
Writer you almost but don’t quite remember from 20 years ago.
Novels: The Ice Beneath You, Voodoo Lounge, In Hoboken.
Other: NPR/ATC commentaries; guitar slinger; soldier.
NewHope, PA & WestCapeMay, NJ
baumansbrain.com
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My new mantra for the next four years: What Would Woody Guthrie Do?
Waitress this morning called me Baby Doll and I have never felt more seen
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Waitress this morning called me Baby Doll and I have never felt more seen
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I don’t really know what over/under means, I fake it every time
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I don’t really know what over/under means, I fake it every time
Buried deep inside the new, depressing biography of Robert McNamara I found my #sundaysentence for this week, a quote from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas: "If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Buried deep inside the new, depressing biography of Robert McNamara I found my #sundaysentence for this week, a quote from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas: "If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
I have a little bit of @leeupton.bsky.social hanging around my house, in this collaboration she did with the late, great artist Ed Kerns. One of my favorite pieces of art.
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I have a little bit of @leeupton.bsky.social hanging around my house, in this collaboration she did with the late, great artist Ed Kerns. One of my favorite pieces of art.
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Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
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The Mayor is here at hand.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The Mayor is here at hand.
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New novel from @ambersparks.bsky.social is just so good. I held it to be my Halloween read. I'm about halfway through this morning and can't put it down. Fern & Alice are kind of a minor miracle. Anyway, my #sundaysentence this week: "The misery of the dead attracts more dead."
November 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
New novel from @ambersparks.bsky.social is just so good. I held it to be my Halloween read. I'm about halfway through this morning and can't put it down. Fern & Alice are kind of a minor miracle. Anyway, my #sundaysentence this week: "The misery of the dead attracts more dead."
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And thou no more art prince than she is queen.
October 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
And thou no more art prince than she is queen.
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When you saw only one pair of footsteps in the sand, it was then that I carried Yoda in a weird-looking backpack.
October 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
When you saw only one pair of footsteps in the sand, it was then that I carried Yoda in a weird-looking backpack.
This is absolutely the best month of the year to live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (& the guy who bakes that bread also owns a bookstore, so…)
October 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is absolutely the best month of the year to live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (& the guy who bakes that bread also owns a bookstore, so…)
Well this was a fun find. 20 years ago this weekend, me and Fiona on the cover of Sunday Philly Inquirer, for the release of novel #2, Voodoo Lounge.
October 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Well this was a fun find. 20 years ago this weekend, me and Fiona on the cover of Sunday Philly Inquirer, for the release of novel #2, Voodoo Lounge.
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Leaves are verbs
that conjugate the seasons.
—Gretel Erlich
Paul Klee | Harbinger of Autumn
that conjugate the seasons.
—Gretel Erlich
Paul Klee | Harbinger of Autumn
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Leaves are verbs
that conjugate the seasons.
—Gretel Erlich
Paul Klee | Harbinger of Autumn
that conjugate the seasons.
—Gretel Erlich
Paul Klee | Harbinger of Autumn
Didn’t find a #sundaysentence this week, but I am enjoying this. The first half, anyway. He took a left turn for Part 2, and it’s just not nearly as compelling. But Part 1 was so good that I’ll forgive him.
October 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Didn’t find a #sundaysentence this week, but I am enjoying this. The first half, anyway. He took a left turn for Part 2, and it’s just not nearly as compelling. But Part 1 was so good that I’ll forgive him.
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Come on then, and remove him.
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Come on then, and remove him.
On weekends I want to read, walk, listen to music, go to a museum. I don’t want to fight, be attacked, watch abuse, or even see that many people. Same with social media. The limitations of Bluesky are exactly why I choose it, and it alone.
here is a question I’m reflecting on: what do you WANT your relationship with social media to be? Like, stepping back from it, what platforms would you LIKE to be spending time on (if any), how much time and doing what?
October 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
On weekends I want to read, walk, listen to music, go to a museum. I don’t want to fight, be attacked, watch abuse, or even see that many people. Same with social media. The limitations of Bluesky are exactly why I choose it, and it alone.
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Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend,
I am almost mad myself.
I am almost mad myself.
October 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend,
I am almost mad myself.
I am almost mad myself.
My #sundaysentence this week is Ani DiFranco contemplating the immediate outcome of writing: “I wake up to the fact that I have transformed my pain into something more beautiful and useful than it was in its original state.”
October 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My #sundaysentence this week is Ani DiFranco contemplating the immediate outcome of writing: “I wake up to the fact that I have transformed my pain into something more beautiful and useful than it was in its original state.”
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heard someone say this year has felt like being awake during a surgery and they’re not wrong
October 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
heard someone say this year has felt like being awake during a surgery and they’re not wrong
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Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."
October 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."
The marks of 30+ years of playing on what is now the beach #guitar; I find them beautiful, like weathered lines on a sailor’s face. (Long way to go to get to Willie level on the patina, though.)
September 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The marks of 30+ years of playing on what is now the beach #guitar; I find them beautiful, like weathered lines on a sailor’s face. (Long way to go to get to Willie level on the patina, though.)
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Death and destruction dogs thee at thy heels;
Thy mother’s name is ominous to children.
Thy mother’s name is ominous to children.
September 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Death and destruction dogs thee at thy heels;
Thy mother’s name is ominous to children.
Thy mother’s name is ominous to children.
Sometimes you run across one short sentence that manages to capture a whole person. My #sundaysentence this week is this simple & funny beauty that captures so much of Graham Greene: “While in Villahermosa, Greene was afflicted with the company of an American dentist.”
September 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Sometimes you run across one short sentence that manages to capture a whole person. My #sundaysentence this week is this simple & funny beauty that captures so much of Graham Greene: “While in Villahermosa, Greene was afflicted with the company of an American dentist.”