“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck
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Associate Professor of Literature at Stevens Institute of Technology, which means I’ve taught everything from Spaceships to Shakespeare. I wrote a book on 1980s British subversive theatre. Am writing one on James Baldwin. Fulbright Scholar. Playwright.
“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck
An ad for Carmen
We have a winner.
Maybe it’s a function of discipline.
Mine peak on Friday. I think we need a larger sample size.
Chalamet has gone full Kardashian.
Never go full Kardashian. #FilmSky
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain
I hope the rash is ok.
This war is spreading so quickly you’d think an archduke had been shot.
My tax dollars are being used to shoot down my tax dollars.
Touch of Evil and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
This week in teaching. #AcademicSky #FilmSky
DVD of In the Loop.
Tonight’s watch. #FilmSky
I’m sorry, man. Hope she’ll be back begging at the dinner table again soon.
I just took a cheese break. #AcademicSky
Day 2 of Operation Demented Fury.
Sitting here listening to jazz, drinking coffee, and doom scrolling.
Taking a stupid walk for my stupid mental health right now.
“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
George McGovern
And here I was just thinking WarGames was just a stupid movie from the 1980s.
A still from Wag the Dog
Larry Ellison right now (probably).
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
This completely devalues the integrity of the FIFA Peace Prize.
Poster for Love & Mercy
Tonight’s watch. I love the scenes with The Wrecking Crew. #FilmSky
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston
It was at that moment that Operation Rid-Flat-of-Pickle-Juice went on permanent hiatus.
“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
A more efficient methodology for delivering alcohol to your bloodstream. That’s tenure thinking right there.