It turned out it wasn’t about opening The Strait of Hormuz but the friends we made along the way.

“Trains are holy, blameless creatures.”

“I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends”
#ShakespeareSunday

“Archbishop Thomas Becket wants Burgundy to have a nuclear weapon.”
- King Henry II (probably)

“Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.”

― Ernest Hemingway

“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
- Nikki Giovanni

Swear and Chinatown

This week in teaching. #AcademicSky #FilmSky

Pope Leo on an airplane, standing in the aisle, holding a baseball bat.

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

And yet, today Orban managed to be a more responsible leader than Trump.

So we’re blockading something already blockaded?

“The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact…”
#ShakespeareSunday

Gone with the Fucking Wind.

Even astronauts get stuck on the tarmac.

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The world to the United States right now.

This is the TACOist of Taco Tuesdays.

Crumpets are cancelled.

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“That’s no moon.”

A civilization will die tonight. Just not the one he thinks.

So is teleporting to a Waffle House something we can do now?

Doubt and Vertigo

This week in teaching. #AcademicSky #FilmSky

Jesus Christ Superstar and The Life of Brian

Tonight’s double feature.
(Tell me I’m GenX without saying I’m GenX). #FilmSky

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”

Black text on white background “Happy Easter, New York!  Today, millions of New Yorkers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the victory of hope over despair and faith over fear.  As the air warms and cherry blossoms begin to bloom, this holy day is a sacred time to pause and reflect on a season of rebirth. Whether you spend this day singing in pews, parading on Fifth Avenue, joining a processional guided by the bamboo trumpets of Haitian Rara music, or hunting for painted eggs amidst the spring grass, I wish every New Yorker celebrating a joyous day.  Let us all embrace this holiday's spirit of hope and renewal as we build the City — and the world — that we deserve.”

“Easter will soon be here. Life breaks into beauty again and we realize that man may bring hell itself into the world, but that Nature ever patiently waits to be his natural paradise.”

― Walt Whitman

I saw Project Hail Mary last night. Highly recommend. It is such an incredibly important tale of community that we desperately need right now. And, my God, is Sandra Hüller fantastic.
#FilmSky

In my experience, playwrights have it better than novelists. You get to be a writer and be social. You work with collaborators to build something as a community. When it cooks, it cooks. In that, I have been blessed. 🎭

Haggis for everyone!

“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.”

— W.H. Auden

Heard on the street: bro, I can’t join you - I have to recharge my ankle bracelet.