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Tony Pennino
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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.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · Jun 4
“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 3h
For me, it’s a weekend wake up, not a week day wake up.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 3h
Today’s haul. #MusicSky #BookSky
2 albums: Sketches of Spain and Lost and Found. 1 book: The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 4h
Should the Dems be highlighting the bailout of Argentina more?
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 10h
Gary Oldman can still land a cracking good monologue. #SlowHorses
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14h
Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 17h
Guy who is zip-tying American children and shooting pastors on the head with pepper balls wants Peace Prize.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 15h
On the substance, María Corina Machado deserves the Nobel. Absolutely.
Nonetheless, I can’t help but laugh that he lost to a Venezuelan woman. Well played, Nobel, well played.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 16h
I’m 50% Italian, 25% Irish, and 25% German. By 19th-century rules, I’m only 1/4 white. A reminder that whiteness is just a construct.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 16h
Tuesday night I had the air on. Last night, we had a frost warning.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 16h
His consolation prize is a restraining order in Chicago.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 1d
Tonight’s watch: In the Mood for Love. #FilmSky
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 1d
My encyclopedia entry on Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money has gone live. #AcademicSky

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Serious Money
Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money was born into a paradox. The play opened...
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 1d
“You mean I’m no longer the worst Attorney General in history?”
John Mitchell (probably)
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 1d
“He asked Ribbentrop if he knew what a ‘yes-man’ was. Yes, said Ribbentrop, in German it means ‘a man who obeys orders and is obedient and loyal’. Unwittingly he had produced an epitaph for Nazi officialdom.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 2d
Tonight’s show: the opera of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. If you’re in the NYC metro area, try and go see it.
Playbill for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 2d
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
Hannah Arendt
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 3d
How naive I was that November day in 2008 thinking we had turned a corner to start making a better nation.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 3d
“Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders…”
Carl Sandburg
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 3d
What’s going on in Chicago breaks my heart.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 3d
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
― James Baldwin
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 4d
I’m betting Clover would make a fine drummer in a metal band.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d
Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 4d
What is the point of coming to class if…
1.) you have your laptop open,
2.) you are texting on your phone, AND
3.) you have your headphones on?????
#AcademicSky
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 4d
This week in teaching. #FilmSky #Academia
DVDs for Wings of Desire and A Ghost Story
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 5d
Lord Banastre Tarleton called. He wants his talking point back.
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