Ol’ Nate
@mordecaimartin.net
He/him. Writer. איבערטייטשער. Fifth generation New Yorker. Mad man and Psychiatric Survivor. Hairy AND over-share-y. MFA from Randolph College. http://www.MordecaiMartin.net. https://fartaytshtundfarbesert.substack.com/
Ol’ Nate
The Sameer Project is calling for urgent donations for water. Please donate!!!
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Today’s #AWP2026 photo features me, on my couch in the place I’m staying, because I am too tired of standing on that hard floor convention center floor to still be there
I didn’t see this and I want to know the goss!
Busy days
I! Know! This! Feeling!!!!
Yes yes yes and yes!
Love ya doc. Happy to be the trickster bunny deity here.
Copy editing level: the GOAT
In the airport on the way to AWP. Airports are my main exposure to normies and I gotta say? I don’t approve.
When I woke up this morning, before sunrise, I got to see the moon, who dutifully takes light in and humbly reflects it, shadowed, made impossible by the cast of the earth, embroiled in turmoil as always.
But by coffee shop, I mean the food court at Denver International Airport on hour 5 of my layover
Me
Mess is more interesting than cleanliness! Mess is human and pulsating and raw! And raspberry scented! You’ll see me. You won’t be able to get rid of me
A stunning disorienting delicious piece by @alinaetc.bsky.social
@mordecaimartin.net I’m a 19, medical student. my father has marytyred in the war and I’m currently living in a tent with my mother and younger siblings. We’re trying to have basic needs, yet I’m determined to continue my studies.
Your dms and emails are always welcome!
I’ve done both. Usually for publication I’ve gone with transliteration. But I have dreams of not doing that
Still thinking about this.
My parents have been together since they were fifteen. They have 6 beautiful grandchildren, and are currently dressed for Purim as a queen bee (mom, bee costume, tiara) and a worker bee (dad, bee costume, hard hat) and honestly if that’s not hashtag relationship goals for you shmucks, what is?
I’m angry. Again. Yes, at institutions that I am trying to be less emotionally invested in but still am. Siiiiiiigh
“Why don’t you go shove your hand into a bag of beans, DAD”
I’m going to be a part of a really exciting and fun three day learning extravaganza in Plainview, Vermont (near Montpelier) this April. You can sign up at the link below. Until Tuesday the full package price is heavily discounted! Sign up! www.thecreativecampus.org/spark
People complain about the cultural effects, hipsters and so on, but they really should be mad at the policy
It really was a searing insight by one of our nation’s foremost poets and social commentators
I’m being gentrified and displaced from my ancestral role on social media ( @raxkingisdead.bsky.social reply guy)
Computer, enhance
I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.
At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.
. . . I wasn’t gonna say anything. But you’re right, that’s more important
Where is my country? As Melville says, “in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fireside.”