Tony Pennino

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.” ― William Blake

Just saw Digger. Go see it. You’re not ready for it. The marketing campaign doesn’t do it justice. Go see it. #FilmSky

For those of you keeping score at home, in the past couple of days, I completed the gallery proofs for my book and the draft of a new play. #WriterSky

“I exist as I am, that is enough.” Walt Whitman

“The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go or driven like hail stream bitterly out to one side and fall where the salvias, hard carmine— like no leaf that ever was— edge the bare garden.” -William Carlos Williams

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Fun Fact about Tommy: he made it out of El-Sayed’s rally without being punched, kicked, or otherwise physically abused.

Galley proofs arrived last night. This is the last leg before publication. This two-year journey is now coming to an end. Finally. #AcademicSky

“. . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile.” Thomas Wolfe

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus

Live footage from a Russian bot farm.

Ukraine is pretty much what you would get if Batman morphed into a country. 🇺🇦

“The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.” ― Jack Kerouac

Today’s show 🎭 #TheatreSky

“The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.” ― David Bowie

Anne Carson winning the Nobel Prize in Literature just shows you the power of Big Canada. 🇨🇦

One of the paradoxes of the theatre is that a reading of deeply problematic play can still celebrate the magic of the art form.

Rubbing road salt in the wound.

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." — T.S. Eliot

Another depressing aspect of the election in Brazil: It indicates that if Merrick Garland had done everything right, it wouldn’t have made a difference.

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“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.” ― Simone de Beauvoir

Which AOC and Bernie show up at your rock concert

“The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!". Gary Snyder

“And I rose In a rainy autumn And walked abroad in shower of all my days High tide and the heron dived when I took the road Over the border And the gates Of the town closed as the town awoke.” ― Dylan Thomas

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

And I used to think Josh Hawley was the dumbest senator from Missouri.

Eric Schmitt: Did you not filibuster in this very chamber against the building of a dam in your state on behalf of The Boy Rangers? Jack Smith: Aren’t you referring to the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?

“There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.” ― Harold Pinter 🎭

I’m a research fellow at my college. #AcademicSky

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“…nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands.” - e.e. cummings

“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.” Gustave Flaubert

Welp, I have an ISBN number and a publication date (November). 🍾 #AcademicSky

Only 7 episodes left of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. 😞

Happy birthday, Leonard Cohen.

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“Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain, that I may say The gods themselves do weep!” #ShakespeareSunday

“It's the only light we've got in all this darkness” ― James Baldwin

“The end of art is peace.” ― Seamus Heaney

Welp my manuscript has been moved to the production department. 💃🕺 #AcademicSky

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Got this at a poster sale today. I 100% endorse this froggo 💜

“Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.” ― Michael Chabon

I was in Manhattan on 9/11. It was bad. But many people had it a lot, lot worse. And that’s all I’ll say on the subject.

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.” ― Allen Ginsberg

“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast." - Quentin Crisp

"Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country." - Bruce Springsteen

“The summer ended. Day by day, and taking its time, the summer ended.” - James Baldwin