Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃
@gregandree71.bsky.social
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Pretty good writer. Reasonably competent HusbandParentMusician. Passable teacher. Old, stubborn, and grumpy. Forever fighting book bans, ignorance, and cruelty. He/Him.
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gregandree71.bsky.social
24 years of teaching we've gone from respected public servants who educated kids, to ungrateful babysitters, to snowflakes propagandizing "critical race theory" to "social justice" to "woke," and forcing kids to read "pornography."

Now we're terrorists.

The clowncar to authoritarianism is real.
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Peacemaker S2 continues to be extremely relevant!
santiagomayer.com
Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.
gregandree71.bsky.social
Exactly this.

They want someone who looks like a big, scary antifa-soldier to crush. But they're forced to be ridiculed by people in inflatable frog costumes, and when they act against them, they look weak and small.

Ridicule is a powerful weapon against people who want to be powerful and feared.
aefrankes.bsky.social
I feel like people who say the protestors in animal suits aren't serious truly underestimate how much fascism is dictated by what makes the top boys feel like big powerful cool men™️ and forcing them to arrest a singing giraffe is going to make at least some folks reconsider what they're supporting
gregandree71.bsky.social
These people are so small. Sure, arrest the singing giraffe. So strong. So alpha.
roadsteamer.bsky.social
🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?
Jan 6 protester assaulting a cop Jan 6 protesters assaulting a cop Jan 6 protesters assaulting a cop Jan 6 protester assaulting a cop
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etxgov.bsky.social
Every time Trump says something like this is a Democrat program that he's going to cut, Dems should immediately drop it into an ad to run ASAP on network tv.

"Trump says Dems support special Ed? Hell ya we do." -Should be the general tenor of the ad.
jillnaustin.bsky.social
So, no republicans have children in special education programs? Trump says it's a democrat program.
gregandree71.bsky.social
Drew Struzan was my entire childhood. Such a masterful painter that made me love movies even more. He died today at 78, and I know that's a long life, but I'm still really sad about that little bit of empty space in the world.

There's a great documentary about him, Drew: The Man Behind The Poster.
drew struzan poster for Indiana Jones and the last Crusdae The Muppet Movie poster goonies poster back to the future poster
gregandree71.bsky.social
sad to hear this. what a masterful artist.
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ekjohnston.bsky.social
So is there an indie bookstore near the Vancouver Via station?
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scottfrilot.com
I hear this DJ is KILLER!
gregandree71.bsky.social
Broke out the Halloween decorations, and here’s a favorite: Dee Jay Voorhees.
Jason voorhees mask with headphones
gregandree71.bsky.social
Aside from it being scary… It’s so disheartening
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gwillow.me
We like to pretend the endemic use of the present tense in modern fiction is a stylistic choice. But usually it's a cheap way to disguise mediocre prose, lack of structure, or both. It's like a row of showy petunias planted along a house to disguise cracks in the foundation.
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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gwillow.me
A lot of writers seem to think the more mannered and self-conscious their prose, the better. They add SO much fluff. But the real power of any book comes from the precision of its observations, not the purpleness of its prose. David Foster Wallace wrote like an 8th grade boy taking an English test.
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barrylyga.com
I don't think there's any inherent superiority to any particular tense. BUT...

My problem with the proliferation of present tense usage (as someone who's pubbed something like half a dozen books in present tense) is twofold.

First of all, most writers aren't exploiting the strengths... 1/
gwillow.me
We like to pretend the endemic use of the present tense in modern fiction is a stylistic choice. But usually it's a cheap way to disguise mediocre prose, lack of structure, or both. It's like a row of showy petunias planted along a house to disguise cracks in the foundation.
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
gregandree71.bsky.social
Broke out the Halloween decorations, and here’s a favorite: Dee Jay Voorhees.
Jason voorhees mask with headphones
gregandree71.bsky.social
New from Scott "The Ginger from the Black Lagoon" Frilot
scottfrilot.com
Hey. If ya listen to music, I made a new music. Just in time for spooky season. Wherever you stream songs.
Zombies make good roommates
gregandree71.bsky.social
24 years of teaching we've gone from respected public servants who educated kids, to ungrateful babysitters, to snowflakes propagandizing "critical race theory" to "social justice" to "woke," and forcing kids to read "pornography."

Now we're terrorists.

The clowncar to authoritarianism is real.
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gregandree71.bsky.social
Are we, meaning me, doing Halloween names this year? Can’t go wrong with my actual name: Greg GORY Andree 🎃🎃🎃
Bsky named changed to Greg GORY Andree for Halloween
gregandree71.bsky.social
A guy I used to work with started antifa out of his garage, and now it’s called Amazon. They have bases everywhere, and can deliver their antifas so fast.
dieworkwear.bsky.social
a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
gregandree71.bsky.social
All his books have such a light touch, and are so funny
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.
cmgiulini.bsky.social
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com