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Jan 28, 2023Liked by Mark Finn

Facebook? I would suggest you just walk away.

Twitter works for me, though I am not a big user.

But the reason I am here is - Dick Vernon! Played by Paul Gleason who had the memorable scene with the gorilla at the end of Trading Places. Funny, funny movie.

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Paul Gleason and William Atherton were the two most in-demand assholes in Hollywood. And in Die Hard, we get them both in the same movie! My only regret was that they couldn't have played a scene together. But that would probably have triggered the Highlander Quickening or something.

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Twitter is still my favorite- music Twitter in particular. I'm sure there are all kinds of gatekeepers lurking about, but so far the algorithm has kept them off my radar, something FB never quite managed to pull off.

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You know what I miss? Google groups. They folded too soon. And if they'd stuck around, I wager that FB would never have gotten quite as big as it currently is.

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I’ll bet you’re right!

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