Maxwell Zener

@LittleBrownYR @DanYaccarino1 @AlgonquinBooks @MelindaTaub @GrandCentralPub @ClintSmithIII TERMS OF RESPECT by Christopher L. Eisgruber, narrated by Maxwell Zener from our friends at @BasicBooks

@HeathStallcup End of Chapter 7, as Al is piecing some things together about the Genoskwa, and you can feel the book start to pivot. Very cool stuff.

@MaxwellZener You'll have to let me know what conversation it was.

TFW a conversation between two characters literally gives you chills while you narrate ... I love the direction @HeathStallcup is taking this installment of the Genoskwa series

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org

I would just like to say that covid can go f%*k itself

If you want a primer on what Theater of the Absurd means today, I suggest you become acquainted with @EdwardEinhorn and what Untitled Theater Co No 61 have been up to.

Rave review from @theaterscene about Exagoge at @LaMaMaETC. Good reviews for all, singers, actors, designer, composer, music director, even me! @RamonaRightNow theaterscene.net/plays/offbway-…

Edward Einhorn’s EXAGOGE:Modern seder w/2nd century BCE Alexandrian Ezekiel's oldest Jewish play becomes Exodus opera w/Moses,Pharaoh & Zipporah;Read from truncated Haggadah w/symbolic food & blessings. Extraordinary!2😍🥰End 5/12 t.ly/exmIb lamama.org

I never thought I'd voluntarily attend a third seder, but enjoyed joining one at @EdwardEinhorn's participatory production EXAGOGE tonight. Tickets for NY and livestream available here if you are interested: lamama.org/shows/exagoge-…

I can't tell you how honored I am to be narrating this book for @Dreamscapeaudio Dr Whiteside's empathy and compassion for these kids and their parents is inspiring. It's the book I wish had been available when I was a kid #audiobooks

“Some may tell you the world is complicated and imperfect, that your assumptions about it are often wrong and must be continually, painfully tested. But here, on the Internet, me and 50,000 of my closest friends are here to tell you none of that is true! Just follow your anger.”

It's release day ... it was not easy to sit with this book through the recording, but it's an important story to tell, one with some disturbing parallels to today. audible.com/pd/The-Ku-Klux…

@Mr_Tarrasque @jvcparry Gotcha. If it were a site that cared about being an honest or legal marketplace then you could send a “please take down my stuff” email. But I think this particular site does not so care.

@MaxwellZener @jvcparry I’m not to bummed out or anything, just seeing what I can do. I see it as flatery.

So, my adventure that I (and others) worked hard on is open to download because somebody thought it was okay to just put it online... Anybody know what I can do about that? anyflip.com/cmjgl/abae #dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg @jvcparry

It's nice to see my favorite game stand for human creativity and expression. @Wizards_DnD dndbeyond.com/posts/1642-upd…

Congrats to these spectacular audiobooks

Audible is having a site-wide sale, and I wanted to give a special shout out to two recent titles, each of which has such an inspiring and uplifting view of how uniquely situated you are, as a business leader of any scale, to help those around you.

This is the best example I've found yet of how derivative AI 'art' is. The person who generated the image on the left asked Midjourney to generate 'an average woman of Afghanistan'. It produced an almost carbon copy of the 1984 photo of Sharbat Gula, taken by Steve McCurry. 1/

What devious fate does @rachaneelumayno have planned for us tonight? Genuinely nervous about finding out ...

If you care about the SAG-AFTRA strike, if you care about authenticity, If you care about power structures, If you care about how to resist them, Read this thread.