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Mage Lanz

@magelanz.bsky.social
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Screenwriter of movies and TV, Story Editor, and author of “The Monist Mindset” and “Inferno”

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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Offering free rum consulting for writers. You tell me: character, era, location, income level, personality. I tell you: what bottle is actually on their bar cart. Bacardi in “Scrooged” and Myers’s in coffee in “Replay” are the sort of mismatches that pull booze nerds right out of the story.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The creek bed is empty but the cold keeps tracing the path long after the water is gone
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It’s a crime that Halt and Catch Fire doesn’t have a complete series Blu-ray release.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It’s raining in Los Angeles!
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
There’s something about the prediction of thunderstorms tomorrow that makes it feel like Christmas Eve.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“Severance” prequel idea: it explores the characters backstories and how they got so emotionally resilient. We’ll call it “Pre-severance.”
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The funniest thing about last week’s Foundation episode is how they made a whole-ass GALLON of mushroom tea just to give Brother Day one tiny cup. Then left the rest boiling for no apparent reason. Now that’s how you abuse your drugs.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I can’t say enough good things about Murderbot on Apple. I had no expectations coming into it, I wasn’t familiar with the source material, but it was both funnier and more meaningful than I would have guessed. Give it a shot!
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Dear drug manufacturers. Please stop ruining delicious foods for me. Bubble gum and cherry now only taste like medicine to me.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
If you want to protest but unsure about going to DTLA, Indivisible is mobilizing peaceful protests across Los Angeles and the US this Saturday 6/14. Stay safe everyone! www.nokings.org
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
If your news source has told you there’s rioting in Los Angeles, it’s not a news source you can trust.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Everyone always forgets about the cannibalism in Fried Green Tomatoes.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If LAPD and the national guard really have nothing better to do with their time, maybe they could catch whoever’s stealing the copper from the streetlights.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I’ve started giving Bowie treats every time there’s fireworks outside. Maybe he’ll get fatter but I’d like him to be happier.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Was that THUNDER? In Los Angeles!?! Amazing!! 🤩
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I know it’s a long shot, but does anyone in LA have a DVD of either version of The Lathe of Heaven? Either the 1980 or 2002 version? It’s not streaming anywhere and I’m curious to see how it was adapted.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Is everyone suffering from insomnia these days? I know my sleep is way down, and everyone I talk to is saying the same. Is it just the state of the country, and the world that’s causing it?
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
If you can do one nice thing for someone today, why not do it?
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I just realized how often I use the word “just” and now it feels like such a weird word. And how did I manage to use it 80 times in a script?!
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Watching “Her” over a decade later is wild. A writer with a giant, beautiful apartment overlooking Los Angeles? And AI didn’t take his job first? Ha!
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It’s just common courtesy.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Loving this new season of The Rehearsal.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
It’s always difficult for me to celebrate after finishing a script. Partly because I know it’s not really done ‘til the credits roll. Partly because I miss living vicariously through my characters. But mostly I worry I’ll never be able to write as good a script again. I always do. But I still worry.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
My husband is running a charity auction to raise money for Best Friends Animal Society. Even if you have no interest in buying trading cards, extra clicks and views can help raise visibility: www.ebay.com/itm/33590598...
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20 Fat Packs, 1 Big Cause 🐾 | TCA 2025 Charity Auction for Best Friends Society | eBay
Prefer to keep them sealed?. Totally fine too. It’s your call. Includes aBellissimo Edition Relic Set from Super Break Sports.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If I had to say one good thing about this current administration, it’s that it’s become really easy to lose weight. Most of my life it’s been a struggle not to gain, but now the pounds are coming off like nothing.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It’s going to be the *Greatest* Depression.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Imagine cheering on people in power who are actively targeting and harming the hungry, the poor, the sick, the elderly, the veteran, the disabled, the different, and the stranger and still somehow expecting people to believe you follow Jesus.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
When you can’t even afford an egg in these trying times.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I am begging whoever makes the IMDb app to please redesign this 😭
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 04/03/2025
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Brad M. Johnson @bradmjohnson.com · 25/02/2025
OONA IN HALLOWEENLAND written by @magelanz.bsky.social #TheGreyList25 #scriptsky #filmsky
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I’m pleased to announce that I made The Grey List this year with my script Oona in Halloweenland! The full list is here: www.bradmjohnson.com/the-grey-lis...
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The Grey List — Brad M. Johnson
A curated list of amazing screenplays from writers over the age of forty proving that creativity has no expiration date.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is an important read. We need to remember not to alienate our potential allies. commonslibrary.org/spectrum-of-...
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Spectrum of Allies
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method. -Theodore Roosevelt
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
There are thousands of bots out there that only exist to sew division in the United States. They’ll tell us lies about each other, and try their hardest to get us to hate each other. Since there aren’t any bots for unity and compassion, it’s up to us to be louder and stronger.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone 💗
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Just a reminder: Elon Musk has no security clearance. DoGE is not an official federal agency. His volunteers have no security clearance. None of them were confirmed by the Senate. Yet they have access to Social Security numbers, federal payroll systems, and classified information.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Social media thrives on division. Anger = engagement = profit. The more we fight, the easier we are to control. Monism teaches that division is an illusion. Who benefits from us seeing each other as enemies? What happens if we stop playing along?
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This polarization of our country didn’t happen by accident. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundat... Learn what their strategy is to divide us. We must remember there is no us vs. them. We’re all expressions of the universe, and to harm others is to harm yourself.
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Foundations of Geopolitics - Wikipedia
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Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @kamlager-dove.house.gov · 05/02/2025
I said what I said.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
March. Speak out. Be heard. But most of all, show the world that this fight isn’t about left vs. right, it’s about democracy vs. oligarchy. Without bipartisan support, we have no hope of saving our country.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? Ralph: That about sums it up for me.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@duolingoverde.bsky.social stop asking me to call Lily. I will never want to call Lily.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Mage Lanz @magelanz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Elon Musk gave two back to back Nazi salutes at the Trump inauguration parade
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