Tony Pennino

beatnikprof@mas.to

Associate <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Professor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Professor</a> of Literature (Drama, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Shakespeare</a> , 20th Century Anglophone) & <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Playwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Playwright</a>. PhD University of London, MFA Columbia U. Check out my book Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher: The History We Haven’t Had (Palgrave UK). <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Democrat</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Episcopalian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Episcopalian</a> / <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Matthew25" class="mention hashtag" re

Posts

Post #2815226
“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.” ― Eddie S. Glaude Jr. #BlackHistoryMonth
Post #2815225
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” ― Zora Neale Hurston #blackhistorymonth
Post #2815224
This completely devalues the integrity of the FIFA Peace Prize.
Post #2815223
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. #BlackHistoryMonth
Post #2815222
“I&#39;m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” George McGovern
Post #2815221
Sitting here listening to jazz, drinking coffee, and doom scrolling.
Post #2815220
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ― Mark Twain
Post #2815219
“All war is a symptom of man&#39;s failure as a thinking animal.” ― John Steinbeck
Post #2815218
“He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war.” #ShakespeareSunday
Post #2815217
“Beware the Ides of March.” (That was too easy.) #ShakespeareSunday
Post #2815216
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” ― Dorothy Parker
Post #2815215
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” William Butler Yeats #IranWar
Post #2815214
“Tragedy, in our times, is politics.” - André Malraux #Trump #iranwar
Post #2815213
Happy Raptor Eve to all who celebrate.
Post #2815212
“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.” Thomas Paine #nokings
Post #2815211
“Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.” #shakespearesunday
Post #2815210
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
Post #2815209
“Archbishop Thomas Becket wants Burgundy to have a nuclear weapon.” - King Henry II (probably) #pope
Post #2815208
It turned out it wasn’t about opening The Strait of Hormuz but the friends we made along the way. #straitofhormuz
Post #2815207
I won’t support the construction of a new ballroom unless it includes Lloyd the Bartender. #ballroom
Post #2447080
“We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man&#39;s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville #StephenMiller
Post #2290467
Happy #Christmas #LordoftheRings 🎄
Post #1418727
I’m not convinced that admin wants us to do research. I think they totally want us to have done research, but they really don’t want us to do research. #academia #academicchatter #academicmastodon