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November 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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also hell yeah
M liked a bunch of my tweets from the day
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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me and tuna salad are working it out
11/7/25 - tuna melt "Fonty's Deli and Dukaan" on the window, "Fonty's Bodega" on maps. tuna melt comes highly recommended. at the moment, while i wait for my sandwich, i'm just glad there's room in the shop for me to get out of the cold. it was about 60 degrees this morning. it's 4:00p now and feels like 40. The sandwich is rich and round and it's snappy and bright. touch briny, touch curry-y. a dense chord. i might get waxy and describe it as 'soulful' in the right company. i've been diplomatic with tuna salad for a few years now, and it's sandwiches like these that bury diplomacy under something passion-filled. They're playing Clams Casino now, a few minutes after 808-era Kanye, who just might stumble into full image rehabilitation on these blog-era rap playlists. It's all maple and concrete and terracotta in here. i caught a glimpse of a gas fireplace in the coffee-house style seating in the back. i'm by the front window sitting at a custom-install live-edge wormy maple counter. you can wrap yourself in enough reminders of a time when money was cheap and algorithms dictated taste instead of belief and convince yourself that the world outside is there for thriving in. i'm stalling here because i didn't dress quite warm enough. we all wrap ourselves in whatever it takes to survive, and today i'm a layer short. || derek
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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inglorious basterds 3 fingers meme but it's fassbender saying 'katy perry has never kissed a girl' and the nazi labeled as 'katy perry superfans'
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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somebody hire me and tell me what to write
11/7/25 - coffee shop I really ought to be spending less money eating out. it gets me out of the apartment, and something to write about. expensive, though. I decided i'd start taking a camera with me when i go out, to give me something to do that's not writing. Frankly i enjoy fiddling with photography gear more than using it. i ripped apart our bedroom this afternoon looking for a lens adapter to use old funny Olympus glass on one of our Canons (it was tucked deep under our bed in a box under another box, and you can't access any of that shit without pulling our mattress off the bedframe and sliding it into the hallway. this is, beside a bedroom closet that's presently compressing half our clothes into a small refrigerator shape, our main storage solution). When i found the adapter and decided on the camera body and the lens i put them all together and remembered there's no good solution for metering a mechanical lens on a DSLR, and worse, no focus indication. so i'll take it out into the city with me when the battery is finally charged and take 20 pictures over the course of a week and miss focus on all of them and likely not look at them again. maybe i will. maybe i'll cherish them someday. more than i would with a compatible lens and decent in-camera metering and a semblance of focus indication? don't answer that. It's not enough for me to just walk out into the city, find a bench, and start writing, huh? so picky. || derek
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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sign in the bathroom my therapist's office says "Please shoot your paper towels and make that easy basket. Otherwise, let's face it, you don't make much of a man."
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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big laundromat vs small laundromat across the street
11/6/25 - laundry-o-matic Is that why they call it 'laundromat'? I'm at the big expensive laundromat. the smaller laundromat across the street is cheaper and the machines are a little better and they have a nice attendant named 'Eddie' (not his real name) and they take their last load at 6:00p and that's not late enough for me. Actually i'm noticing i could have snuck in under the wire today, but i hate doing that. i end up pulling my clothes from the dryer early because i can tell 'Eddie' wants to go home, and hang drying everything in a 350 sqft apartment is war and war is hell. I also wanted to write and there's more room for me to write in the big expensive laundromat. i have to write. and also i get anxious and claustrophobic in the smaller laundromat because you're always blocking someone's machine. but you're paying damn near 75 cents on the dollar for laundry over there, and the machines are a little better. Big expensive laundromat got shut down for a few months at the beginning of the year which was a trial. something about gaslines not being up to code, and that smelled like BS to me. there are so many drop-off laundry services in the area and i could see a real case being made they'd banded together to smoke out the majority of remaining self-washers. the laundromatrons. ('laundromat patrons', not 'laundry matrons') But it got me out of the habit of late-night laundry. i swear i came and did a load at 2:30am once. 2:30am. 2:30am. 2:30am. Plus it got me to go hang out with 'Eddie' for a few months. but now i'm remembering 'Eddie' always plays CNN on the tv in there and i really didn't need that in my life. but i really saved a lot of money over there. || derek
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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joker says ' FRIENDS! BELIEVE ME OR NOT NOT BUT SOME OF YOUR FRIENDS SECRETLY HATE YOU.' (sic)
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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this is me rn 👇
stock image type guy with hands on face in shame
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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willem dafoe looking up at god or whatever
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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kelly olynyk looks like he owns a lute
NBA's kelly olynyk
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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does anyone here know ASL? what does this mean?
thumbs up emoji
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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thumbs up
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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cheesebunger
11/5/25 - cheeseburger I had a cheeseburger a while ago from Five Guys with my brother-in-law, who works in the city. it was lovely. Five Guys makes a fine burger. Now i'm drinking dr. pepper that cost $3.60 after tax at CVS. i can't rightly say i overpaid, right? i paid. i knew the price, and i pulled the trigger. now i'm drinking it, and it's quite cold, colder than i'm used to from the bodegas on my block, where i pay a dollar less. i'm happy to pay a dollar less for a slightly warmer soda, but there are those who disagree. I found a small square to sit in, and a man playing saxophone quite well. there are two others who are no longer playing, i missed their performance. a drummer and a bassist. with the sax player that's a trio, but i'm not sure they all came here together. they're talking as if they're unacquainted. they all walk away together but they don't seem very familiar to each other. I can tell the rhythm section is impressed by the sax player's ability, as am i. I've never read those signals well. I can't discern relationships from across the room. The Five Guys burger is uniquely cohesive. part of that i'm sure is my own perception skewed by the presentation; wrapped tight in foil, regardless of your taking it to-go or dining in. burrito-like. when presented with a shiny vessel of food like that you don't have to work hard to imagine a new structure and flavor homogenizing within. chrysalis-like. || derek
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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tweet box says dondle thrump
November 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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eating the sandwich politic
11/4/25 - chopped cheese on a kaiser roll, no tomato I almost talked myself into a cheesesteak instead. it's the nyc mayoral election today and i'm trying to lay siege on my sentimental side. It happened like this: some point this morning i said to myself "how about a chopped cheese for lunch, a real new york sandwich, as sacrament." sentimental or maybe superstitious, whatever the instinct is, something on my shoulder told me to rebel against it because it's frivolous. nobody cares about the sandwich! a sandwich isn't a vote; a vote is a vote. It's an important election, though. Federoff's cheesesteak is excellent but i pictured myself lonely in a philadelphia-owned sandwich shop eating a philadelphia sandwich on a day like today. it's an important election. so instead of getting on the subway and putting myself out into the city for an excellent lunch from one of its finest lunch institutions, i walk around the corner, buy a chopped cheese, bring it back to my kitchen and eat it alone, in silence. The chopped cheese is really good, by the way. the kaiser is a little stale and the shredded lettuce is limp and warm and it's more mayo'd than seasoned but how can i complain? grilled meat and cheese product and onions and peppers. new york institution, i'm told. I probably saved about 10 bucks taking the local option, and i'm sure there's something inescapably political about that. it has to be, given how banal and all encompassing 10 bucks can be. i'm not saying a cheesesteak in williamsburg will ever be as cheap as a chopped cheese around the corner, or needs to be; i'm saying if instead of voting i was tasked with handing that tenner to the candidate i felt could use it best, there's no way in hell that andrew cuomo walks home with my money in his pocket (and that's maybe the 3rd or 4th best reason not to vote for him) || derek
November 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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say that again..
small town road
November 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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mfw
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November 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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let's see what's popular with friends
patrick bateman says let's see what's popular with friends
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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do you like my origami crab? if you look closely you'll notice he's uncut
youtube video title: ORIGAMI Crab with ONE paper uncut
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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the world if time travel was real
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November 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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shorty
11/3/25 - burrata sandwich from Radio Bakery Prosciutto, basil, and burrata on fresh focaccia. low difficulty score, high marks nonetheless. i've gotten it 3 or 4 times now and it has yet to disappoint. That's sort of a bummer actually because this bakery has hella sandwiches i need to try. i'm waiting for the burrata to let me down. it's the starting pitcher pushing his pitch count but the outs keep coming. i'll call the bullpen when there's a runner on base. (I'm still thinking about Yoshinobu Yamamoto) You gotta wait in line for these sandwiches. on a cloudy november monday i saw fewer people on my lengthy walk over here than i saw waiting on the sidewalk outside. it goes quick but those 15 minutes really crystalize the cravings. give me the devil i know. but once i'm inside their tuna salad sub still gives my wandering eyes something to fantasize about. TUNA SALAD. this is out of character for me. I mean no disrespect to the noble tuna salad sandwich. frankly it's a grudge left over from pickier times in my life. the words "tuna salad" activate some latent defense system in my throat and my stomach starts telling me i'm full. bologna had a similar effect until mortadella trojan horsed its way into my good graces. maybe tuna salad has a svelte italian doppelganger too. There's a hammer on the ground about 30 feet from me. || derek
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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small town
November 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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i'm here
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November 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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everybody bowing to yamamoto after his ws complete game
November 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM