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America's Copy Editor® author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief (ret.) • Californian (new) • he/him/his • abstruse in the sense of recondite • 🏳️‍🌈 benjamindreyer.com
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densely fact-filled works of nonfiction without indexes are 😒

submitted 47 minutes ago • 2 comments

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

submitted 9 hours ago • 805 comments

While CEOs, colleges, and law firms bowed to Trump’s threats, California is standing firm. We won’t cave, and neither will you.

submitted 1 hour ago • 13 comments

I can think of a good place to start.

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

Farewell to the great Jean Marsh.

submitted 1 hour ago • 9 comments

great moments in musical theater writing 🎶 I gave you life I can take it away Let the shadows descend like a knife. 🎶

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

thinking of bringing back neurasthenia

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

I wouldn’t mind in the slightest! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻‼️

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

would love to read a portrait of rubio the person, who seems to be the kind of vacuous, amoral ambition addict who excels in tyrannical regimes

submitted 4 hours ago • 143 comments

Stenography thrives in darkness.

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Happy Samuel Beckett's birthday!

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

And, indeed, happy Stanley Donen's birthday!

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Man oh man you really don't want to get "Rainbow High" stuck in your head overnight.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Not to be confused with Vera Zorina in On Your Toes (with Bobby Van) or Natalia Makarova in On Your Toes (with Lara Teeter).

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

bonus Howard Keel (for the Howard Keel Fan Club!) with Victor Moore and Barbara Cook in Carousel, with Jane Powell in I Do! I Do!, and with Andrea Marcovicci in Ambassador

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

today's random theater photo: Tamara Geva in Rodgers and Hart's On Your Toes (1936)

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Happy Howard Keel's birthday (theatrical edition)! [as Billy Bigelow, with Carol Lawrence in the dreaded Saratoga (sketch by William Auerbach-Levy), with Barbara McNair in No Strings]

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

I am full sorry That he approves the common liar

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

As I’ve said, yes, this was their aim all along. That’s why they didn’t just send these people to Gitmo. This is an attempt to find a step beyond Gitmo where the court says, “Well, our hands are tied.” It’s an awful, lawless gambit that must fail, but that is what they want it to be.

submitted 19 hours ago • 56 comments

Oh boy!

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

If only there had been some indication that this was a poor move, for example the fact that it involved voting with Republicans.

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

If it crosses the U.S. border illegally, it's our job to STOP IT. Eyes. Hair. Mouth. Figure.

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

You gotta read this! It’s fascinating!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments