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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I ❤️ Chicago / Caught the 4K Digital Restoration of MYSTERIOUS SKIN @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social this week—it's gorgeous and gutting. Also, they have the best popcorn on the planet.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I 🩵 Chicago // Caught a 35mm IB Technicolor Labor Day matinee of Dog Day Afternoon @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social, surrounded by 600 enraptured strangers.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sunday + Monday writing = last bits of (rainy) August [deadline today]

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

He's one of those. (subway riding...round 19, 1 speaker, PG-13 + R) / You Look Like The Right Type / April 2, 2026 / My parents don't do that. / Chicago, heading north / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

He's one of those. (spring cleaning...round 18, 2 speakers) / You Look Like The Right Type / March 17 + 20, 2026 / Thanks for doing the dishes / Fool that I am, I'm trusting you. / Chicago + outside Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

He's one of those. (spring cleaning...round 17, 1 speaker, PG-13 + R versions) / You Look Like The Right Type / March 15, 2026 / Air the place out a little bit. / Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

He's one of those. (awkward green...round 16, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / February 5, 2026 / Whenever you want, we can have some, uh, pizza. / Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

He's one of those. (little pop of pink...round 15, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / February 4, 2026 / It's a beefy day. / Zoom, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

He's one of those. (PG-13 + R...round 14, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / January 31, 2026 / HONEY, JUST HOLD ON / Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

He's one of those. (pen is pink, round 13, 2 speakers, 2 cities) / You Look Like The Right Type / January 28 + 29, 2026 / We'll kiss again soon. / You look like you're a little jealous. / Baton Rouge + New Orleans, Louisiana / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

He's one of those. (blue round 12, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / January 28, 2026 / Thanks for speaking up for yourself. / Baton Rouge, Louisiana / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

He's one of those. (round 11, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / January 15, 2026 / My whole thing is that queer relationships are elastic. / So I don't like stapling. / It just makes it too formal. / Zoom call to New York, New York from Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

He's one of those. (round 10, 1 speaker / PG-13 + R) / You Look Like The Right Type / January 10, 2026 / It's illegal in some states. / I think you should. / Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

He's one of those. (round 9, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / December 27, 2025 / I need to be double-strained for clarity. / Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

He's one of those. (round 8, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / December 17, 2025 / You look a little naked / Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

He's one of those. (pink round 7, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / December 11, 2025 / I definitely got the sense. / Downtown Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

He's one of those. (round 6, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / November 30, 2025 / Anything you got a hankering to pickle? / Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Happy 17th Anniversary, You Look Like The Right Type / November 23, 2025 (serving daily drawings from overheard conversations since November 23, 2008) / Not a raid—A PARADE / Ain't no FREE DRINKS / Edgewater, Chicago

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

He's one of those. (pink round 5, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / November 17, 2025 / It's getting even pinker. / That's fine. / Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

He's one of those. (round 4, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / November 7, 2025 / I don't have a ride, but I do have space. / Downtown Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

He's one of those. (round 3, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / November 3, 2025 / Lettuce, tomato, pickle, mayonnaise? / Do you want a lemon? / Muncie, Indiana / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

He's one of those. (round 2, 2 speakers) / You Look Like The Right Type / October 27 + 28, 2025 / That might be a fantasy. / Smells good, too. / Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

He's one of those. / You Look Like The Right Type / October 24, 2025 / I read somewhere that dogs evolved from wolves. / Chicago Loop / New queer book coming soon.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Celebrity sighting / Carol Kane / Petterino's, Chicago

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Great Thursday night screening of Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (Tajikistan, 2025) at The Chicago International Film Festival, with Iranian director Shahram Mokri & writer Nasim Ahmadpour in attendance...and a wild typographic campaign from Ogilvy Chicago.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Found in my vintage files: Robert Redford, Playgirl, August 1976, unauthorized publicity photo on cover. 💜 his performances in Barefoot in the Park (1967) and All the President's Men (1976).

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Hairy Squared: part 2 > question, answer 💙💜 / You Look Like The Right Type / September 7, 2025 / What did she say? / I love a gay man. / Renegade Craft Fair, Wicker Park, Chicago

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Hairy Squared: 2 different speakers, 2 different days💥💥 / You Look Like The Right Type / August 17 + June 24, 2025 / Apparently, I have a thing for gray beards. / You have a very sexy radio voice right now. / Edgewater + Rogers Park, Chicago

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

From the excellent $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives show at the Getty / The beginning (book spread) / poem by Constantine Cavafy, illustrated with copperplate etching by David Hockney, London, 1967

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Shout-out to queer writer, filmmaker, and artist Jean Cocteau on his birthday today, July 5, 1889. And shout-out to Sarah Reed of Hollywood, who read this copy of my (used) book 64 years ago (bottom-right inscription).

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

💜💙 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 18, 2025 / No one thinks we're work partners. / Juneau, Alaska / Happy Pride 2025

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

💛 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 17, 2025 / I gotta go see if I can find six more clown noses for the show. / photographed with "Nimbus," Robert Murray, painted aluminum, 1978 / Alaska State Museum, Juneau

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

💥 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 13, 2025 / Will Hamlet avenge his father's death? Will Vladimir and Estragon continue to wait for Godot? / People need to do and stop complaining and how do they choose to do? / Valdez, Alaska

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

💙 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 2, 2025 / I used to be boyish / Chicago

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

HAPPY PRIDE / You Look Like The Right Type / May 30, 2025 / It has to do with community and solidarity and creating mass movements and the queer creed—WE KEEP US SAFE—and the trans creed—WE KEEP US SAFE. / I've lived all over and I always come back here. / Lilly Wachowski, Music Box Theatre, Chicago

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

TAG SOMEONE YOU LOVE / You Look Like The Right Type / May 11, 2025 / You got more issues than People Magazine. / Chicago

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Muncie, Indiana! From left to right: William, Frank, Lucius (seated), Edmund, and George.

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

You Look Like The Right Type / April 13, 2025 / My husband wishes he had that kind of hair on his chest. / Burbank, California

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

You Look Like The Right Type / April 7, 2025 / She says that printed matter is a community act. / Chicago

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

More Sunday edits! (Hopefully, last round.) New #YouLookLikeTheRightType book coming soon—something for the gorgeous gays and quintessential queers. Throwback: June 15, 2014 / Saturday / A little bit of peach fuzz here / Harlem, New York

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Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Lunch with Andy / Cahuenga General Store, North Hollywood, CA

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