garykrist.bsky.social
@garykrist.bsky.social
What happened the last time a Democratic Socialist disastrously became mayor of an American city:
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This is the architectural equivalent of the Access Hollywood tape: "I moved on [the East Wing] actually... And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything."
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If loving sweet Italian sausage with sautéed peppers and onions is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
August 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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weaponizing nostalgia for a bygone military era but having your old tanks sound this squeaky is such a perfect allegory for our situation lmao
June 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Massive #NoKings march in New York City!
June 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I have a joke about Scylla and Charybdis but if I tell it one way it’s too dirty and if I tell it the other way it’s just not funny.
I told a joke about Medusa but only got a stone-faced response
I have a similar joke about Sisyphus, but it's uphill work
June 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I added Chinese chopped chili sauce to my usual teriyaki and sesame seed salmon before broiling, and now I'm just waiting for the James Beard people to call.
April 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
What you can find on the internets these days…

youtu.be/MSBILb1-PAc
Dinah,Ella,Joan - "Three Little Maids" & "Lover Come Back to Me" (1963)
YouTube video by vintage video clips
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April 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
@angryalgonquin.bsky.social Glad to have reconnected here!
April 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This morning on NBC News 4 New York. Thanks, Bill’s Books.
April 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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'A vivid and dramatic retelling of a shocking story of betrayal and murder ... Trespassers at the Golden Gate is a triumph of historical #truecrime writing'
My review in @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social:
elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...
@crownpublishing.bsky.social @garykrist.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Such a great idea to play out a scene from Glengarry Glenn Ross in the White House today.
March 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The book tour for Trespassers at the Golden Gate starts in New York on publication day, March 11, and proceeds to Washington DC, Jackson MS, and to various venues around the Bay Area. Hope to see some of you out there.
February 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It’s National California Day!

Read the upcoming #NEHgov funded book “Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco” and the gripping 1870 trial of Laura D. Fair, accused of murdering her lover, A.P. Crittenden: ow.ly/7Wl550UZFTP
February 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Good evening, New York (a blue sky for my first Blue Sky post)
February 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM