Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Was telling a friend how my father-in-law tried to make a golfer of me. Failed. How about the other son-in-law? This was a guy so rarefied and intellectual after he got through explaining what he did on his job you still didn't know what his job was. 0160
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I'm not sure Derry actually intended to kill anyone. Early in our relationship she put me on the ground and stood on my leg. She was correcting my attitude and I knew it. I hopped up and slugged her hard as I could. "Fair enough," she said. "But you'll mind your manners henceforth?" "Right," I said. 0110
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Red bearded Viking-looking professor turns up. Derry Icelandic horse, approaches on hind legs, paws the air makes squeaky noises. Me: "Horse wants to kill you." Prof: "Why is she doing like that?" Me: "Fixing to kill you." Prof: "The fence." Me: "Can hop over. Get in car. Go now." He went. He lives. 1180
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Why haven't they planted new forests? I don't know. Maybe not the Viking way. Icelandic horse trainer: "Your horse not very good--is kind we would eat at home." Horse, Derry, my close friend, makes a fair try at killing the trainer. Trainer: "Actually, this horse not so bad." Me: "You eat horses?" 0110
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Used to be, maybe still, you'd take a 2nd horse when you went riding. Why? To run your horse into when you wanted to stop. We taught our Icelandics whoa, no problem, but it is not the Viking way. Running into a wall also works, as would a tree, but deforested to build boats 1000 years ago. 2141
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Shipping the sleeping bags home rather than shlep. On the bill of lading was Icelandic steamship co. logo a swastika. Flag on ship swastika. "That your trademark?" "Ja." "Must have caused problems during the war." "Ja, both sides sank our ships." "Ever occur to you to change it?" "We had it first." 0200
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026They're not ponies. They're short horses. 0100
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Jean Shepherd was in Chicago. Studs Terkel interviewed him on 3 successive days. Shep wanted to show off how he had surpassed the master, but Studs was unsurpassable, got Shep to reveal, maybe to himself, that every time he got in front of a microphone he felt as though he had never seen one before. 3243
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Doesn't matter that YOU're sick of him. Every marginally functional human is sick of him. Always has been sick of him. I was sick of him in 2 minutes when he was a local clown in NYC. What matters is that a heavily invested enthusiastic minority sees something in this swine, likes him. We are toast. 2171
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Break during walk. I say "geh shluffn" Yiddish for "go to sleep." Dog: "Wha?" I repeat "geh shluffn." Dog: "Hm." Me: "geh shluffn." Dog: "Is it this?" (lies down) Me: "Yes! Good dog!" I repeat 3 times--she does it three times. 2 days later, break again. Me: "geh shluffn." Dog drops. That's a collie. 0240
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Only yesterday I bragged how I didn't make a jerk of myself with the adapter/screenwriter/director and today I got a secret peek. There are gremlins in Hollywood who make things come out the way they often do, but he seems able to evade them. Seems possible the movie may be way better than the book. 4300
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Too much of a good thing. I also walked out on Utamaro, Painter of Women, and Eroica, (the Beethoven story). Ich habe genug, I said. 070
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I saw the 1967 adaptation of Ulysses. An Irish production, those people respect the book so much that the actors on the screen were yawning. I'm of the opinion Sunny Jim would have walked out before the end. I did. 1111
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I've been told it's almost unheard-of for the movie-guy and the book guy to be friends. This is probably because writers tend to be %$$#@! (writers other than me, that is), and will try to argue for their vision, not understanding a movie is not a book. I said, "I had my fun, now you have yours." 1210
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I became friends with Benny Safdie, who is adapting the book and directing the film, so I know some of his thinking. But I have been told NOTHING about what The Rock is preparing except that it will be great. I have upgraded my healthy breakfast to even healthier to ensure I will be here to see it. 2387
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 22/04/2026You got me. I've been a robot the whole time. 2140
Reposted by Daniel PinkwaterMystic Rebelle® @mysticrebelle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought... ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents #coward #fool #control #thief #liar #tyrant #slavery #trump 01911
Reposted by Daniel PinkwaterJabari A Davis @jabariadavis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026apropos of *everything 1317
Reposted by Daniel PinkwaterLaurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Octavia E. Butler, 1998: 25197443669
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I'd do more with the animals. Schickanander was on the right track there. 280
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I got to write the libretto for an opera once. If Mozart had written the music, that would have been the high point, plus nobody can prove he wouldn't have said something nice about my contrib. 4193
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I assume Mozart is the brilliant creative goof-off, and Salieri, (me), is the competent drudge. I'll take it. 171
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Summer job in hot crappy factory with awful conditions, another boy and me, dragging heavy dirty objects. Any time I tried to steal a 5 min. break the boss would catch me. The other kid goofed off constantly, took naps on piles of boxes, and never got caught. There are people talented like that. 1210
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Know this bird exists. Should they ever migrate this way, you won't suspect your sanity. 0171
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 18/03/2026In the early 70s there was still an outfit doing business in Hoboken that home delivered worn and wonderful wooden crates containing thick hand-blown glass bottles made in Czechoslovakia in different colors nozzle and lever charged with seltzer. I felt like a king. 3282
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 18/03/2026You need a tall tapered glass and a long iced-tea spoon. I find the online recipes call for too much U Bet, making an over-sweet sticky product. MGIF (milk goes in first). 280
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Oh yes, my initial exposure-- Gem Spa, St. Mark's & 2nd. My credentials are in order. 060
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 09/03/2026A local market carries Fox's U Bet Syrup! I was married to a woman of the Bronx, lived downstairs from a Chinese glutton from the borough, and took lessons at Captain Haggerty's School for Dogs at Tremont and Jerome, where the thing is taken for a Puerto Rican delicacy, so I know exactly what to do. 5222
Reposted by Daniel PinkwaterRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/02/2026The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated. www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-... 36564152173
Reposted by Daniel PinkwaterAffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Affirmation Coyote hopes you have a pleasingly unproductive Sunday! 0488
Reposted by Daniel PinkwaterGreg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet 36110543590
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 07/01/2026One trick I learned was to accuse the anti-semite bully of being a Jew. Since all bullies are constantly afraid, (MAGA types please copy), the schmuck would fall all over himself denying before his friends could work out on him, while actual Jew me could just fade away. Everything old is new again. 1172
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Joy! The Agent and I are going to hunt for wild boar in the woods behind my house, and have a Christmas barbeque. Or maybe we'll do the Chinese restaurant thing as usual, she's not Jewish, but she gets it. 4190
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Bragged about: walking into dressing rooms at teen beauty contests, avoiding VD as his personal Viet Nam, grabbing women's genitals, friendship with Epstein. Add judgement in E. Jean Carroll suit and 25+ women accusing him. All circumstantial things, could happen to anybody. Witch hunt! 2252
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 14/12/2025I do have one authoring trick. Do not write too much or for too long. Set a modest time or page limit, and do not go beyond it. Do not become tired. Take breaks. Talk with friends on the phone. Take naps. Have snacks. Oh wait, that's not my approach to doing writing--that's about any sort of work. 3657
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Interview questions asked of writers are always about process. I have been interviewed myself, and they always want to know how it is done. What is the recipe? Personally, I have no idea, and I suspect neither do many other interviewees, so we make stuff up, and possibly come to believe it. 1231
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Hooray! The novel is started! Between times, when I am writing nothing, it seems I have no idea how it is done. Then, something happens, I don't know what, and it seems all simple and obvious. (Those were my nicknames in college.) 2481
Reposted by Daniel PinkwaterSenator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 13/11/2025All of the times I’ve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putin’s ambassador about Trump.politico.comJeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into TrumpNewly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions. 14532411240
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Want to know how I came to appreciate myself? An Arab maiden who has the mind of a child, when she's not being a high-level scientist, (also claims to love me, fiercely, Arabs, oy vey), patiently explained to me what I have been doing since 1967. Who am I to argue with an IQ like that? 1180
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 27/11/2025In the audience of he first Neanderthaler to tell a story was another cave-type who thought, "I want to do that," and did, with variations. Another hominid got inspired, and the third work of fiction happened. Until today, it's unbroken and continuous. And we all think ours is original and special. 2284
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 26/11/2025I can't wait to see it. (I had no idea so many members of the Screen Actors' Guild were lizards.) 1263
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Let's see. Been accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, by at least 25 women since the 1970s. Found liable of sexual misconduct in a NY court. Judge said wasn't called rape on a technicality. Best friends with a known mega-creep sexual abuser. Nah, has to be a hoax and a witch hunt. 2230
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Speaking of lizards -- www.npr.org/2006/11/29/6...npr.orgFalling Ill in Africa, and Loving ItCommentator Daniel Pinkwater tells the story of his travels in East Africa in 1967 -- and how one night when he was very ill, lizards stared and him and played around. In retrospect, it was his finest... 0120
Reposted by Daniel PinkwaterMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/10/2025Well, well, well... 2101191797326
Reposted by Daniel PinkwaterDave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!! 774224699902
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 20/10/2025I'll tell you how I knew. The last time an obviously middle-eastern type said to me, "Guess what country I'm from," I said Egypt, because his stance was like Boris Karloff in The Mummy, who had obviously prepared by looking at how Egyptians stand, so when this guy said guess, I guessed like before. 1130
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 20/10/2025So the tech support guy was finishing up and I said, "alhamdulillah!" so he said, "You know Arabic!" and I said, "I know an Arab," and he said, "Guess what country I'm in," and I said, "Egypt," and he said, "How did you know that?" and I said, "I know things." How _did_ I know that? 3351