Derek Smith

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Aww!!! 📸 by hot genius @juliaroseweinberg

…they’re calling it ‘Dadmaxxing’ 🤔

🫃🏻💌🫶💌🫃🏻 big love @exponentialfestival @bricktheater @peter.mills.weiss @buffalobailey @nniiccoollaass @ground_hum @normandyraven @mikelle_kelly @theemlea Cliff Hoitt-Lange + Sarah Blush

So I’ve been getting back into Posting lately… 🤭

Edelweiss 4.0 🥹💗 RIP🎅🏼4ever I love getting to do this with these people 🥰

DJ, play “I Gotta Feeling” 😏

@glamourpussdrake told me about 2 GIRLS KISSING in May 2023 and then we shot it a year ago on a hot day in Red Hook with a dream team *and* Court Street Grocer sandwiches 🤤. Proud to be a part of it and Dyke Nyte at @newfest !! Thank you for letting me sweat all over your set, @glamourpussdrake , @nschamus + @chloeberk 🫶 (Lovingly pasted from a pro-alphabetizer:) Cast: Andrea Abello Briana Archer Chloe Berk @chloeberk Ryan Drake @glamourpussdrake Monica Sanborn @monicasanborn Sophia Samantha Lewis @sophielewisisback & ~Me~ Creative: Chloe Berk, Ryan Drake, Joe Soonthornsawad @joe.soont  - Producers Wyatt Bertz @wyatt_bertz  + Joe Tisdall - Composers Jack Davis @jackdavisdp  - Cinematographer Ryan Drake @glamourpussdrake - Writer Isa Fernández @isaferlai  - 1st AC Chris McKee @chrismmmckeee  - Editor Colin Marchon @colinmarchon  - PA Marry Perrino @maryperrino  - Colorist Elias River - Sound Mixer Noah Schamus @nschamus - Director, Additional Editor Tickets + passes for #newfest37 at newfest.org/festival

Forced to post due to legal threats :-/

Final weekend of Events! Sold out but waitlist gets in! Fri + Sat @ 8, Sunday at 2 + 7. See u there, girlies🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚 Photos by Thee @travisemeryhackett

🎼Maximalism! Mangia! Mystique!🌕 . . . Dear Girlies, On a recent day in The Park, there was a kid, maybe seven years old, sipping an iced fruit tea bouncing wildly down the walkway, curiously… all alone. He clawed the drink’s lid from a raised elbow, like a bow-winged wyvern wearing nylon raver pants with mesh knee sections and an oversized looney tunes tee under his child-sized Fjällräven backpack. Certainly a chaperone would appear in tow, but after an abrupt turn toward the center of the park it became clear that there was… no one else on his same route. A few of the surrounding Stroller-Pushers cocked their heads to look around with concern at this tiny character weaving through the Aloof Dog Walkers, the Gym Queens Speaking Into AirPods and the Wide-Brimmed Omre-istas, all looking around wondering… “whose is that?” While I, the Benched Pastry Gay, watched him steadily advance deeper into the park, eventually disappearing from view, I asked eternal question aloud to no one: “Where is that girlie on the go going to?” Perhaps the situation called for more concern but–I don’t know. I had faith, or something. So many things just keep happening, don’t they? It’s hard to keep up. This city is going absolutely insane; we all are. I recently read a comedian say that “joy is… a skill” in an interview about hosting dinner parties, possibly referencing Bell Hooks? I really should read more. But my point is, if we don’t get good at it now, when will we? Welcome to the Full Moon Era of our lifetimes, girlies. ‘Tis the season to feel, to fight, to feast and to fuck. Let’s go all in. Let’s have what Cher in Moonstruck is having. The full Loretta Castorini treatment. Maximalism! Mangia! Mystique! From Johnny to Ronnie, from buried to blooming, from settling to surrendering, from our day jobs to the goddamn Met for a five hour opera and to Cosmo’s moon and back to end the night at Joe Allen like we used to, while we still can.

Autumn Volume of Errands Quarterly is trickling out this week benefitting @transhousingcoalition . Link in @errandsmagazine bio for orders and a sweet seasonal playlist. “xo, D”