Peter Josyph

I suppose I’m a storyteller.

Books. Acting. Films. Songs. Plays.

Today I realize I guess that’s what I am.

But NOT as a painter. People love to look for stories in visual art and that’s fine. For me as a painter, it’s more about paint. Bits of form and color. All somehow connected to the title…

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2025 Harriet Kenderdine Lecture with Barbara McQuade | Ware Center for the Arts SPEAKER: Barbara McQuadeAttack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging AmericaLaw professor and former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade will discuss the tactics of disinformation, how…

I will be honored to deliver the 2025 Harriet Kenderdine Lecture at Millersville University on Friday. Details here.
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Full LUMET:

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YouTube video by KGSM MediaCache Sidney Lumet on Dog Day Afternoon and actor John Cazale

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Part of the genocide in Gaza is that thousands of its survivors have very distinct plans that will make the region the least safe in the world for at least a thousand years…

Absence of a plan for the people of Gaza is very worrying. So many - including thousands released from harsh prison conditions - returning to find their homes and neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. No-one yet offering any hope, and from what I hear Trump refusing to discuss.

Last time I spoke to God he/she/it was having the same problem - writing the Conclusion - but it sounded as if Trump might’ve strengthened his/her/it’s resolve to get it done…

Seeing the check in the circle and realizing people I know are still on Twitter…

imagine writing a silly-sounding thesis and not being beautiful

I escaped with a BA because I couldn’t imagine any kind of thesis.

One more paragraph on Alexander Pope would’ve finished me off for good.

(I’m leaving it to the 10K Worshipers to take the “not being beautiful” bait. I’ll sit back and watch…)

Thank you, Governor. I am getting my flu vaccine and Covid booster on Wednesday.

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!

RFK Jr. suggests circumcision is linked to autism. Here's what experts say. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested there may be a link between autism and circumcision while reasserting the unproven theory that Tylenol causes the condition. Here's what doctors say.

Can we CIRCUMVENT the entire GOP Congress and impeach this man?👀

RFK Jr. suggested there may be a link between autism and CIRCUMCISION while reasserting the unproven theory that Tylenol causes the disorder — and medical experts are pushing back against the claims.

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There is no free country.

“The price of Democracy is eternal vigilance.”

- Thomas Jefferson

When Degas was urged to buy a telephone he asked how you know someone wants to talk to you.
“A bell rings, you answer it.”
“Hmmm… Like a servant.”

Tidal Punk!

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“Every time I want to do something exciting there’s a shit somewhere who wants to shut it down.”

- English friend who chaired departments in two countries so far.

Recently an editor said she doesn’t take books like this, there’s no market for it, still, she’ll try it, but we’ll have to wait a year before thinking about a 2nd in the series.

Normally in publishing No means No. This was a rare case of No meaning Yes.

It’s a dialogue on THE MERCHANT OF VENICE…

sure send it over

Guitar nerds. Someone at the Handel/Hendrix house said that that Hendrix would tune his guitar down to Eb. Didn’t explain why but now seems to me a great idea - so you can play a bar chord E on the first fret? I’m probably missing something though.

For YESTERDAY McCarney tuned his Epiphone a full step lower, so that playing it in guitar-convenient G meant that he was singing it vocally- convenient F.

Yes AI is having an effect on me. I’m getting closer to buying a fountain pen than I’ve been for decades.

only one way to find out

Scott Bessent and JD Vance say the government can't reopen because of No Kings Day.

You tell em Tex!

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Even on the bus he wants to be sure…

I can relate…

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2