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Bryan Waterman
@waterman.bsky.social
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Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001.

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"You will be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
Three overlapping silk-screened Elvises. Andy Warhol, Triple Elvis, 1963. Aluminum paint and printer’s ink silk-screened on canvas, 82.375 x 71.125 inches. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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"I am a lineman for the county..."
Chicago Pope at the mic
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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This ending!
But Barmak Nassirian, a vice president for Veterans Education Success, an organization that promotes the G.I. Bill and other kinds of educational assistance for veterans, said he hoped the wealthy figures in Mr. Trump’s world might soon turn their attention elsewhere. “I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Times reporters are not okay rn.
26 minutes ago Benjamin Oreskes So much of the last mayoral election revolved around Trump's interest in the race. My colleagues reported over the summer how he was quizzing New York Republicans about their views on the campaign and contemplated getting involved far sooner. (Trump endorsed Andrew Cuomo days before the election). Whether it was reference to his family's friendship with Tisch or his hopes for the city, the meeting showed that he is still a New Yorker at heart.
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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@katejewell.bsky.social, can you confirm there's a real human behind the by-line here? 😂 (I've made my fair share of mistakes in print, so I'm really not digging too hard. Just having a little radio chuckle.)
screen shot from the article: Dr. Jewell traces college radio’s growth from some zany kids at Brown University, hooking up a phonograph to some wires, to the early FM broadcasts of the 1960s, to the ’80s and ’90s, when major labels pointed public relations howitzers at hung over college students. These days, she said, the marketing budgets may have shrunk but college radio is still deeply satisfying for the students and a source of great pleasure for its listeners. Stalwarts include WPRB at Princeton, WMBR at M.I.T., KALX at U.C. Berkeley, and, perhaps the most notorious of them all — at least in the northeast corridor — WFMU at Fordham. But Dr. Jewell says asking which one is best isn’t really the right question.
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Scenes from the last 16 hours in the air: New York, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi.
Plane engine in foreground, lots of lights in greater New York below. Atlantic on the horizon. Plane engine in foreground. Sunset over Istanbul, right where Europe and Asia meet. Grey towers below. Abu Dhabi (near the airport) looking like a golden carpet tonight. So many street lamps. New neighborhoods still populating. From the air you can see hulking villas under construction. Arabian Gulf on the horizon.
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Zohran sign but it says HOWL for CARL SOLOMON
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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A small but earnest dance party gathering in Washington Square Park.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Kid is dressed as Richie Tenenbaum (his idea). My work as a parent is pretty much done.
The shades and sweatband seal the deal but he’s also got a tennis racquet slung over his shoulder (not pictured).
October 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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“So we’ll see what happens.”
Jan 6, MAGA storming the Capitol.
October 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Still willing to Zoom in to discuss this.
Shoulder tattoo: the 1855 Whitman portrait.
October 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Tweet from Annie Linskey noting that Flotus Melania has raised concerns about her husband ripping out the East Wing.
October 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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I can’t express how thrilling it was to open the ballot and see @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social at the top of the ticket. The people’s choice! Let’s GOOOOOOOOO!
October 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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vibes 🔪 🩸
chucky with a bloody knife.
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Missed opportunity. (Also, this effing sucks. What a total disappointment.)
"I [SQUARE] Judd" bumper sticker
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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When you're waiting for the mushroom coffee to kick in.
Drawing of Gulliver, pinned down, surrounded by Lilliputians. Caption: "I lay in great uneasiness."
October 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Next on the very busy president’s agenda
Alfalfa and Spanky over a hand-painted sign that reads HE-MAN WOMAN HATERS CLUB.
October 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Epic @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Survivor ad hit the family group chat the minute it aired…
October 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Actually
Yertle the Turtle strokes his chin and mopes, wishing he had more of everything.
October 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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I mean honestly 👶🏻🍼
Screenshot of TN HOLLER Instagram post featuring a Trump Truth: thetnholler Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why? 2.06k ReTruths 8.82k Likes 10/13/25, 10:36 PM thetnholler Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don't share it widely Thank you for your attention to this matter 3 hours ago My editorial note: it’s a weird pic, just like he describes. But it feels right. Faker than fake but still shows his flaws/age in ways he actively resists.
October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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So glad “Kaputt” was on the set list.
October 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Saw Destroyer last night with my daughter, Molly, making good on one of the funniest text messages I’ve ever received, sent 14+ years ago during her first year of high school.
Happy dad w/ a smiling daughter, in blue lighting near the edge of the stage at Knockdown Center in Queens. Text from 4/15/11, sent to me by my daughter, Molly: Hey dad what's the name of that song with the "through the back doors of the world. " and cocaine and stuff? Dan Bejar reading lyrics while he sings. Guitarist in the background.
October 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Got my boy his annual jabs.
Mirror selfie: 1855 Walt Whitman shoulder tattoo w/ Walgreen’s bandaid.
October 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Trying to get this chapter organized
ICE agent fumbling his gun while trying to point it at protesters, lying on his belly, glasses slipping down his nose, clip on the ground.
September 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM