I just found out that I received a Best of the Net nomination. I'm stunned.

Circle the wagons! Tony-winners @PasekAndPaul are working on a new musical film adaptation of the popular game series, The Oregon Trail. broadwayworld.com/article/Benj-P…

When Trumpers ask if you’re “willing to lose friends over politics,” respond to them, “I am willing to lose friends over MORALS. There’s a HUGE difference.”

which one are you?

The hateful rightwing rhetoric towards LGBTQ people led directly to the Colorado murders. The killer’s self loathing allows him to see humanity’s differences as an existential threat.

If you think someone’s gender threatens you, that who they choose to love or marry threatens you, that the pronouns they use or the clothes they wear or the sports they play, THREATENS you… they are not the problem. You are.

If an autistic person asks you to buy a particular brand of food, clothing or product, please listen. The brand is often important to us, not because we are shallow, but because each brand has their own idiosyncrasies, resulting in some meeting our specific needs and others not.

I just want to make a few things clear: The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure. And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides. Silence is complicity.

The Phantom family is saddened to hear of the passing of Quentin Oliver Lee. Quentin brilliantly lead our North American tour in 2018. Our hearts are with Quentin’s family and friends.

Donald Trump just called for the “termination” of the United States Constitution. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Donald Trump, his allies, and his supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy.

I just read a killer submission for @MetaphorosisMag, one of my favorites in two years. I hope the story makes it!

I have renewed faith in reading. Six books and a lot of stories in.

Payton Washington is in the ICU after she was shot for getting in the wrong car in Texas Kaylin Gillis was shot to death for driving into the wrong driveway in New York Ralph Yarl was shot in the head for ringing the doorbell at the wrong house in Missouri It’s the guns

I'm back! Two acceptances this weekend from Ivo Review and Pink Disco!

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