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Gather round my children and I’ll tell you a tale of a Christmas past. It was a cold winter’s night, over 30 years ago, when a wife called her husband and asked him to pick up a holiday movie from Blockbuster (remember that place?) while on his way home. When he arrived she was rather angry “Die Hard?” she proclaimed “Why that’s not a Christmas movie!” He replied “Sure it is, sit down and we’ll watch and you’ll see, it’s clearly a Christmas film”. And ever since then people have been having the same argument, is Die Hard a Christmas movie? As time went by people decided to amp up the argument by claiming “well, if Die Hard is a Christmas movie so is Lethal Weapon”. This one took me back a bit and I had to go check out the film because I didn’t remember anything about Christmas in the movie and sure enough, it takes place during the holiday season, however I am firmly entrenched in the "Die Hard is a Christmas film whereas Lethal Weapon isn’t" camp. Back and forth, up and do...

 Shouting into the void. It's been 11 years since I've blogged, since I feel the need to record my thoughts in essay form. Why? Twitter, I could express myself on a variety of topics from entertainment to politics and I didn't have to do a lot of writing,  just a few quick sentences and then send it out into the universe, to be attacked by bots and trolls. But that was then and this is now, changes are a-coming and they aren't good ones. The big question is, why did Elon Musk spend $44 billion to buy Twitter? What is his endgame? Over the past few weeks the answer has become clearer, and scarier. Being on twitter is about to become a pointless endeavor. I plan to keep my account active, since he says he'll ban inactive accounts but at the most I will be tweeting a lot less, and using that formally wasted time to blog. So, what is Musk's bigger plan?  To start why did Twitter become so popular? The answer is the celebrity certification system. On MySpace and Face...