And temporarily brought you out of Medium retirement. Thanks for the tag. I do subscribe to you so likely but far from certianly would have received that email (I get all the ones where you tell your new followers you're not presently writing. Most of my new followers are some level of fake. When I bother to look at their profiles I more often than not block them. It's very rare since I passed a few hundred followers a few years ago that I see any new follow resulting from them having read a story or a comment. I'm going to click into your Mulholland Drive review. I haven't seen it but imagine I will stream it in the near future.

PS: given the fiasco with MPP ($0.00 for reads and other engagement) and all the writers yelling to revolt/strike/leave, I've gone the route you've always been on. I've started not paywalling my stories. I'll see what happens with payouts and may start paywalling again as the $120 a month I've been averaging is actually a material amount to me, but I've also really enjoyed the recent experience. There's a freedom.