America is not a country. It’s a continent with 57 different countries. So before trying to change the historically correct name of the Gulf of Mexico, why don’t you find a name for your country?

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Wishing all my friends a Merry Christmas, happy days after the Winter Solstice and all the best for the New Year. May you see and hear less advertising, listen to more inspiring music, watch more really great movies, and ignore the coming flood of irritating news and images from you know who.

I’d like to see a law limiting anything mentioning the name “Tr**p” its image and sound to one item per week. Life is too precious to waste time, intelligence and emotions.

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We honor the legendary Fritz Lang on his birthday.

This article contains a wealth of information, including Thea von Harbou's screenplay for Metropolis, interviews with Lang from 1967 to 1975, and much more.

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Writing a vampire movie on a quiet snowy night

Great film on MUBI: Gasoline Rainbow mubi.com/films/gasoli...

I'm proud of this one, and it took awhile. These are people who have written essays for The Criterion Collection. These are some of the best scholars/writers on the planet. All worth a follow.

I'll tag the accounts in comments.

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One of my Alexa echo show devices showed an ad. I’m thinking of calling Amazon to ask them to pay for renting my device, my screen, my Internet, my electricity.

A movie on streaming ended and the credits began without any pop-ups! The credits played uninterrupted right to the very end! I was so surprised and enjoyed it so much I watched the last scene again hoping the credits would roll without interruption again but the miracle didn’t repeat.

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Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest. This is beautiful.

When the writing is going so well that you suddenly realize you’ve been working in a dark room but the light outside is exactly why it’s happening.

Watching an eternal favourite tonight! Thelma & Louise directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri