Matthew FitzSimmons

Not a fan of the expression, "lost my virginity." Everyone knows exactly where they left it.

Die Hard is Alien in an office building told from the monster's point of view. Hans Gruber is Ripley, forced to watch his entire crew murdered before being pushed out the airlock.

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Legend has it that mullet still flies on warm updrafts of freedom.

Midnight Run
Running on Empty
Do the Right Thing
When Harry Met Sally...

Broadcast News was filmed around the corner from my parents' house in NW. I remember the neighborhood kids standing around on the curb, confused why they were shinning huge lights in the living room windows in the middle of the afternoon.

The magic of cinema...

29 days until deadline and 150 pages of rewrites to go makes Matthew something something.

It seems absurd that this word didn’t reenter common usage sometime in the last ten years. What are we even doing people?

Ballet performs ballets, opera performs operas, theater performs plays.

I applaud your perseverance on behalf of your parents, Tammy Wynette and Richard Nixon.

Strong I295 vibes.

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Trump Approves the Release of the Epstein Files, but Loopholes Remain

The bill was veto proof. There was no option but to sign.

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Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.

There goes the outline of my next novel, Winnie the Top.

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Trump Loyalist Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment

What was your worst ever day at work?

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"My dear Donald, don't call them piggy. Just lure them into a consulate and have them dismembered."

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Both are animated chickens.

Most adages are useful but all come with fine print. Always read the fine print.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.*

*Unless they are duplicitous lunatics who will eat my face at the earliest opportunity.

My stepfather had both knees done at the same time. He was in his 60s at the time, and it was shocking to me that he was walking the next day (gingerly). Conventional wisdom seems to have shifted to start using replacement parts immediately to limit the formation of scar tissue. Good luck!

Top 5 Genres:

- Quiet guy in background is pulling all the strings.
- We hate each other, but after we do this impossible thing a grudging respect nay love will emerge.
- In a foreign land I come to know myself better than before.
- One montage from greatness
- We’re putting the band back together.

The Flaming Lips are playing the Anthem on New Year's Eve, and I can't think of a better way to kiss 2025 goodbye then cry/singing Do You Realize? at midnight.

YouTube video by Punk rocks The Stooges .. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (1969)

I love that songs like, Lay Lady Lay, You Can't Always Get What You Want, Space Oddity, and I Wanna Be Your Dog were all released in July 69. The biggest stars of one decade reaching their apogee while the innovators of what would follow were already hard at work.

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Sounds suspiciously like someone who has yet to apply their ADHD to preordering bookcases.

You buy a bird feeder with dreams of beautiful plumage and rarely glimpsed avian wonders only to see thirty dollars worth of birdseed ravaged by a horde of sparrows in under forty-five seconds.

We used to woodchip things in this country.