N.E. Brigand

"I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

She offered him a job working for her dad.

You couldn't make up a better plot twist.

Are those katydids in Justin Timberlake's song "Not a Bad Thing"?

Know hope.

Enjoying dinner at Comet Ping Pong.

The Emoluments Clause is interesting reading.

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"Sleep little darling; do not cry, and I will sing a lullaby."

"These violent delights have violent ends." -- William Shakespeare

"And the evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming."

The best film of the 1990s is Life and Nothing More, aka And Life Goes On (the original Farsi title is Zendegi va digar hich), an Iranian faux-documentary directed by Abbas Kiarostami in 1991. It's the middle installment of his unplanned "Koker Trilogy" (which recently has been released on DVD and Blu-ray by the Criterion collection), bookended by Where is My Friend's House? (1987) and Through the Olive Trees (1994). It's about a filmmaker who returns to the remote village where he filmed a children's movie in 1991 in order to learn whether they survived the devastating 1990 earthquake that killed 30,000 people.

Hello, captain. Nothing to say, captain?