Benjamin Gorman
@benjamingorman
Author, publisher, teacher. 😁Please read my books!😁
The Trump regime is an illegitimate, evil, corrupt, fascist enterprise. Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible. I will speak out against the regime every single day until they are held accountable. bit.ly/StandNow
I should mention this more often: I write books! You can get them, read them, and talk with me about them. I love communicating with readers, and I’ll always sign your copies. You can find all my books at @notapipe.bsky.social’s notapipestore.com
4 hours and only 1400 words in, but ai hope to pick up the pace. Please consider donating to @notapipe.bsky.social's #antifascist write-athon at notapipepublishing.com/antifascist-writeathon
Just getting started! Please consider donating at notapipepublishing.com/antifascist-writeathon
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I have been sitting on hold for over an hour because of my firmly held, irrational belief that if I hang up, it will be two seconds before someone would have answered. My present tense is held captive by my future conditional tense.
This frog is just staring at us in a way that creeps @chryslaw.bsky.social out. I like his little shadow bowtie. Quite dapper, sir!
We made it to #brickworld! #brickworldchicago #nerdingout Video tonight!
The other day I learned Joshua Jackson (yeah, your boy Pacey) dated both Diane Kruger and Lupita Nyong'o, the women who've played Helen of Troy in Troy and The Odyssey. What are the odds of one guy dating two Helens of Troy? Certainly higher than 1 in 1000 ships!
Bit of a tease post: I just went to The Freckled Bee, one of our favorite indie shops in Salem, to get t-shirts printed for @chryslaw.bsky.social and me to wear at #Brickworld in Chicago. Check our socials on Saturday to see those, and if you'll be at Brickworld, come get a selfie with us!
Did you all see the line-up for the grand opening celebration for the Obama Presidential Center? Holy cow! And Trump can't get half of Milli Vanilli! 🤣
Pippin wants you to know two things: 1. He's very cute. 2. He loves you. Have the day Pippin wants you to have!
Launch event for the Antifa Lit Journal, Volume 3: Diversity of tactics (available everywhere now) was a protest at the 🧊 facility where the writers read their work directly to the guards. So cool! It will be the next episode of @notapipe.bsky.social's Tilting at Windmills show on Monday.
It was a mama bird at the top of a tree and the chicks in a nest in its branches. They were yelling for food, and she was telling me to move along. Good reminder: The natural world exists and is more important than my stupid concerns.
They are trying to silence us. Check out Tilting at Windmills, Chapter 20, on the Tilting at Windmills show from @notapipe.bsky.social up on Youtube at 8pm PST tonight. It may fill in some blanks.
I you like the idea of writers using short fiction and poetry to foght back against facsism, consider the Antifa Lit Journal. The third volume comes out June 2nd!
Here's a story for you. And don't tell me it's because I live in Portland. Portland is, statistically speaking, one of the safest cities in the United States and safer than most small towns. Look it up. This is an American issue, not a Portland issue.
@chryslaw.bsky.social and I went to the #RoseFestival down the street and got an oreo-topped funnel cake because, as everyone knows, #Portland is all about living a healthy lifestyle.
Author @wnwagner.bsky.social, in her newsletter (which you should sign up for), recommends holding something that makes you happy to deal with the crushing, relentless horror that is our time. I think it tells you so much about me that this is my little source of joy:
Today's #adventure in #substitute #teaching : Is stealing still considered bad behavior?
Holy shit this blew up over on the hellsite. If only the same people who are posting all the "I'm not racist but..." "Western Civilization" comments had the self awareness to look at their fellow commenters and see who they team up with, they might learn something about themselves.
A bunch of chuds saw Lupita Nyong'o, one of the most beautiful women ever, was cast to play Helen of Troy, one of the most beautiful women ever, and their response was to try to start an online war about her casting ... proving she is the perfect pick to play a woman so beautiful she started a war!
Today's #adventure in #substitute #teaching: It's the #school #culture!
Today's #adventure in #substitute #teaching: #priorities on #display
