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

“I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us.” Frederick Douglass

Damn, that goo in The Reflecting Pool ain’t messing around.

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just want to put this out there. I would make a smashing Prime Minister of Great Britain. 🇬🇧

Manuscript…submitted. #AcademicSky

“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation." - Coretta Scott King #Juneteenth

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.” ― John Steinbeck

Never thought I’d get this far. #AcademicSky

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.” ― Harper Lee

Manuscript update: finished the last chapter (only the conclusion to go). I need to have a minimum of 90k words. Currently at 89.4k. #AcademicSky

It’s one of the paradoxes of my country that it celebrates freedom - holds it aloft as the singular virtue - and then all too frequently says “not like that”. You have, to quote Mary Oliver, “one wild and precious life.” Seems to me they you owe it to yourself to be who you are. #PrideMonth

So this is what the Roman Empire was like around 420 AD/CE.

“If music be the food of love, play on”… But not at the Freedom 250 concert. #ShakespeareSunday

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” ― William Carlos Williams

A two-page paragraph is ok, right? Right?!?! #AcademicSky

Look, all I’m saying is if Darth Vader can have The Imperial March playing every time he enters a room, then the same can be done for me with The Smashing Pumpkins’ Cherub Rock.

I hope I’m not jinxing it, but I think I may have this manuscript in by deadline. #AcademicSky

“…nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.” E. E. Cummings

Electric Boogaloo? In this economy?!?!

“And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.” ― John Donne

I met Barney Frank back during my political nerd high school days. He was a great man. Rest in peace.

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend” ― Albert Camus

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” ― Jack Kerouac

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” ― Isaac Asimov

An assignment that was due three months ago was just submitted with no explanation.

Wrote 1.5k words on my manuscript. About 13k to go. #AcademicSky

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

Counterpoint: We never needed a 24-hour news cycle.

Last day of teaching until the autumn. Live footage of me. #AcademicSky

Happy May the Fourth to all who celebrate a bunch of kids who overthrow a totalitarian government ruled by a sick old man.

We live in a world where a pope and a king care more about democracy than the President of the United States.

“As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.” #ShakespeareSunday

There’s a reason I go to the breakfast place I go to. #NoKings

Student: Could I do some extra credit? Me: What? Why? You haven’t done the credit. #AcademicSky

You know what Trump had before he tore down The East Wing? A BALLROOM!

I won’t support the construction of a new ballroom unless it includes Lloyd the Bartender.

Reporter: Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show? Mary Todd Lincoln: We could have used a ballroom.

New blueprints for the ballroom just dropped.

Posting this for no reason whatsoever.

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.” #ShakespeareSunday

We are at an inflection point. As his polling collapses, this is the moment when an authoritarian turns to totalitarianism. We are winning - we will win - but in the short-term there are dark days ahead.

Happy Shakespeare Day to all who celebrate.

“The Hulk before intermission, Bruce Banner after it.” ― Lin-Manuel Miranda #TheatreSky

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

“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)