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Originally a Twitter thread from 2020. 

We do not live in Gotham.
Nor do we live in Metropolis.
Those are fictional.
So is Batman.
And Batman is not a hero.

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To the editor of the LA Times, in regard to this article, 

LA Production Decline

To quote David Beckham, please be honest about the “effects” of the SAG/AFTRA and WGA strikes. Those strikes did not cause the current slowdown in productions.

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Opening monologue:

This is Free City.
Look at this guy. He’s one of the sunglasses people.
And the people who wear sunglasses? Are heroes.
They have a devil-may-care attitude and they run this town.
Bombshell:You are so hot.
Revenjamin Buttonsdropping into driver’s seat: Oh, I know.
See? That’s not even his car. Or his wife.
For the sunglasses people, they get to do anything they want.
They go on all sorts of missions, they got cool hair, cool clothes.
I mean, laws aren’t really laws to them.They’re more like mild suggestions.
Like, I don’t think he’s gonna return that car.
Or that nice lady.
See what I mean? Hero.

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Originally a twitter thread, 26 August, 2021; commentary on cotton shopping bags

Hey, let’s talk about a couple of terms that are going around: “cradle to gate cost” and “end of life cost”. (Also sometimes “cradle to grave cost”). Cradle to gate measures what an item costs to manufacture, ship and get through the point of sale. Tracking stops after sale.

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This was originally a Twitter thread, posted on 22 APR 02019.

Changes from the Twitter version: Lightly edited or re-expanded from the original text, linked to sources, and notes.

Addendum, October 2022, after the release of Black Widow filled in significant aspects about Natasha, and Falcon and the Winter Soldier filled in some details about Sam and Bucky. I have also updated links that experienced bit rot to their archive.org instance.

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Archive: originally posted 10/12/2010 at czedwards.com

I have been an EBM fan for a long time now, so I’m always looking for something fresh, both from new artists and past favorites. I found Edge of Dawn a couple years ago, when they only had one album, Enjoy the Fall, out. That effort is exceptional, not just as music to be danced to and listened to, but as a meditation on one of the hardest psychological illnesses to endure, both for those suffering from it and those who have to live around it. Enjoy the Fall represents Borderline Personality Disorder the way only someone who has lived it can, and yet… doesn’t fall into despair.

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