But how do you feel about the star of my post, Emile? I found the Severance finale an utter disappointment but — briefly — an udder pleasure as Emile took the stage.

This chart leaves out the Bizarro World from Superman comics.

I feel like we’re in the “hanging upside down with smoke outside the windows and the smell of jet fuel in the air” phase, so I look forward to getting down and out!

I feel like we’re in the “hanging upside down with smoke outside the windows and the smell of jet fuel in the air” phase, so I look forward to getting down and out!

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It seems to represent a range of skeptical/annoyed expressions — I imagine the classes learning about it in Subtitle University and the students make note of it and lazily use it to describe all kinds of facial expressions in their captioning careers. (“The person hearing his theory scoffs.”)

A favorite of mine is the description of a person’s reaction as “he/she scoffs.” I have never used the word “scoff” in my life but in subtitles people scoff several times an hour.

College-age people today are as far removed from seeing those horrors represented in a movie as college-age me was removed from the actual horrors.

“Manifesto” seems like a loaded, dramatic, term to me. Can’t an essay or blog or substack be a manifesto? Thank you for reading my manifesto.