Nick Dove🕊️
@manabovetown
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“poet-photographer,” hustler-auteur
New York, NY
Joined November 2020
average Sov House couple.
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I bust my ass all night at the poetry reading and come home to this.
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Barron Trump is going to NYU which means that it’s only a matter of time before he’s at Sov which means that it’s only a matter of time before 45/47(?) is an avid Crumpstack reader and most of the LES under martial law.
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@SCHIZO_FREQ Everyone's gotta go through some variation of this cringe right-of-passage, it's a euphoric release and better late than never. Your friend's just happy.
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most people I meet in downtown NYC’s primary artistic ‘project’ is themselves — their goals not to make the most internally consistent work but the most externally validating one.
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@coldhealing Philly over Detroit and Cleveland. Not nearly as dilapidated as either, and still proximate enough to NYC to still indulge. There will be another wave of Brooklynite ‘artists’ on the way once they realize they can mortgage a 3-bedroom row house for the price of Bushwick rent.
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self-aware or not, the basic truth is that a huge amount of this broader social scene are principle-less strivers who are more interested in the idea of themselves being artists than actually making art themselves. That’s not a ding in and of itself — the two are often linked.
I genuinely think so many of the people involved in the 2023-onward iteration of “dimes square” (which is a joke in itself) are incredibly uninteresting, unintelligent, and almost exclusively produce worthless trash that doesn’t even come close to registering as “art” to me.
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Everyone Downtown without a Job is actually just on Thiel’s payroll. Or the FBI’s. Or both, in my case.
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This is the year the boys get rich. And the girls. The girls are boys too. Sometimes literally, sometimes metaphysically, always in my mind. I’m post-gender and forever cash money.
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The remnants of what was once considered D***s Square is like if Friends were directed by David Cronenberg.
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You know your boy’s really down bad when he’s sending you plane ticket prices for Southeast Asia.
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Making a pact with myself and my friends to rid our lives of the demonic energy that has encroached upon it, too many frankly evil things have swirled around us and gone ignored — and in the case of the other night, applauded. No more of this shit. Done.
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TIL that New York City tap water is filled with tiny things called “copepods”. they’re not even trying to hide it are they.
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“Normie” has the wrong definition; a normie isn’t a fixed style of person or beliefs, it’s someone with “normative” behavior, someone who follows “norms” unquestioningly or without hesitancy. Someone of any ideology or interest can be a normie.
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NYC is a black hole, and the more time you spend here the less you’re able to see beyond its event horizon. Literally too, you stop being able to conceive of Events and Things happening outside the city at all.
New York City has a heavy energy. Much more than London, Paris or any other European city. I can see how someone can get engulfed by it completely and lose decades of their life here thinking only a few days passed by.
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The real issue is that so many of the people involved knowingly put up with rapists and other harmful actors because they’re cowards and it’s socially convenient for them to do so, or they’re just that coked out and delusional they get off on the idea of being “dark” or “evil”.
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This Easter Sunday I am proud to announce that I will be playing a Bunny, specifically Frank the Bunny, in a theatrical adaptation of Donnie Darko at SoHo Playhouse beginning April 18th.
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One of the most beautiful and untold milestones of modern friendship is the sending of the first meme. It can be nervewracking. It’s the platonic equivalent of a first kiss — a rejection, an ignoring, can be devastating. But acknowledgment, returned exchange, confirms the bond.
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Kenka, rushed nicotine, Japanese nationalism, the flash of my camera that of a grenade, Mishima, Forbidden Colors, modified in meaning, drained for glory in greyscale and greatness in life. “BAS” and Reality, ~4.24.
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It’s funny that those who court controversy and provocation have absolutely no appetite for it when it actually affects them.
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@718Tv @CovfefeAnon Many of these women are from the Second/Third World, too, selling their wombs out of financial desperation. It’s framable as exploitative even in terms of postcolonialism and asymmetrical power dynamics. And yet… crickets.
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I will be hosting a Communist Picnic (a potluck) wherein everyone will bring a certain dish to share, but also wherein I as Host (Honorable Chairman) will receive a large portion of each dish and be blindly and truly celebrated for my greatness, stay tuned.
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Certain members of the Dovian Politburo are pressuring me to clarify that the Communist Picnic is also a Matthew Donovan protest too but our deliberations are still ongoing.
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Bro you’re not Scott and Zelda you’re just in a toxic relationship.
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Unfortunate, but most 21st century writers’ most important artistic work is their X output. The “classic” novel is primarily a credentialing agent at this point, its completion heralded more than its content, serving to give a reason for larger or further online engagement.
"I worry some of the best writers of our generation are stuck making tweets and newsletters. even great ones suffer from ephemerality. Naval’s marathon of insight would have been largely wasted if Eric Jorgenson hadn’t codified it in the Navalmanack"
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interesting to remember that Elon tried several times to back out of the deal to buy Twitter. His entire emergence as this New Media hyper-Murdoch was basically forced on him in the end; can’t help speculating how different our politics and culture would have been otherwise.
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same energy
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🌸🐝🌸. SURREALIST SUMMER, PARTS UNKNOWN, HERALDS LAMENT AN OPEN THRONE, THE WORLD SHATTERS, REMADE AT ONCE, AN INFINITE REGRESS OF LOVE AND LUST, FUCK POLITICS, FUCK SOCIETY, FUCK THE CULTURE,.LET'S KILL ALL THE GODDAMN VULTURES
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Was Summer ‘23, the first of the surrealist ones. Jahnik and I’d been on a bender the previous days, me to escape my past, him to avoid his future. Wound up dancing in Midtown past midnight to Iranian-Canadian hyperpop. That’s where the night should’ve ended, but it didn’t.
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This is blatantly false - with a toned upper body the wifebeater is sartorially excellent. Pair it with some black or white pants if you're bearing arms. Or wear a chic unbuttoned shirt to unlock further bottom selections. Either way, a cascade of swagger will overcome you.
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You laugh but she is a tenured professor at the University of California-Berkeley and one of the leading Modern Monetary Theorists.
Yea… it’s over. “What if we printed more money and then made a law saying that prices can’t be raised”
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the Times Square Popeyes seems as good a place as any to write the last Great American Novel.
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Being photographed by the Cobrasnake is the ultimate face card test.
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RIP Jimmy Carter, a great humanitarian, the original “lost-because-the-vibes-were-bad”President.
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In the age of generative art and content, what will keep the human creator relevant is their cultivation of an audience attached to them as constructed characters, and their ability to harness that personal attention as a funnel to their makings.
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‘All publicity is good publicity’ only if you’re a soulless degenerate.
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Walked by another one of my seven foot tall brethren on the street just now. We locked eyes immediately. The tension was palpable. People always ask me if I notice my height -- I don't, you fuckers just point it out to me all the time. But I notice it in others.
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I’m heavily overleveraged in $coconut.
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skill issue.
Your twenties are only as good as your family is rich. If they have money, it's a decade of frivolous travel, partying, and entertainment. If they don't have money, it's a miserable low experience point grind until you eventually have the means of standing on your own.
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THANK YOU to everyone who came out to C&W reading last night. Vibes were good, fantastic, even if a bit sweaty. See you all again soon!
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I regret to inform the community that the longhaired Nick Dove is dead. He was involuntarily manslaughtered at an UWS salon during a routine trimming stop. It is still possible that a middlelength Nick Dove will emerge. Legal action is being considered.
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Proudly contributing to the Great Replacement of Dimes Square by teaching recent US immigrants the works of Joan Didion in a midtown skyscraper.
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I like Tame Impala and I’m tired of being persecuted for it.
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Yet again the boys are diving right into the heart of the storm.
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Last night was an all-time crash out. Not by me, thankfully.
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On the same day I publish this, lol:
I just wrote a big piece for a website about my Vanity Fair story that went viral and made everyone hate me. I've researched X's engagement algorithms and so say unto you, click the link in my bio.
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anyone have the number of a good therapist
A new culture, a new civilization, is being born, and like all births, it will be traumatic. Every face that is drawn in sand is washed away by the waves. This new face will not be so human, but neither will it be almost God, it will become a soul that lives in some other way.
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placing a moratorium on my talking to anyone born after the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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no sense in longing for what can never be when so much can be right now and then forever.
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