according to adults, gen z likes using subtitles so that they can be on their phones whilst watching tv because we have no attention span
but here's the truth: i actually turn them on so people think i know how to read
well HELLOOOOO there everyone good evening! And for my girlies reading this Monday morning:
I’d love to be able to tell you all that I am Fully Rested since last week, but alas, I am NOT. There’s something about knowing you have many things coming up soon that makes me anxious and therefore in concluzh (conclusion but cooler) causes me to sleep poorly. I love it. I love that energy. But I just have to tell myself that someday, one day soon, I will have very best sleep. Now, let’s get going widdit.
Something I notice every time I’m in a line somewhere where things can’t happen until we’re all through the line is … people are always in a rush to be first in these types of lines. Like planes. We’re all in line to get on the same plane, and the plane is not going to take off until all of us in the line are in that plane. So why do we stand and try to get in front of everyone else that’s being called for Group 2 when we are Group 7? Do we think that the pilot will close the door before they call Group 7? Is it even the pilot’s job to close the door? Can you tell that I’ve never done research about planes and the people on them?
Another line that does this: time slot lines. I know that’s not what they’re called, but you’re going to understand what I mean in just a moment. The other night I went to the Empire State Building (please send thoughts and prayers to my PO box). Here’s a pic of me there:
We were in the 9:30 pm slot, which is what everyone else was in. And STILL, these people were cutting in line to get in first, even though we all had tickets to the 9:30 pm viewing of the 86th or whatever floor of the Empire State Building. Why do we do this? Will King Kong be on his break if we don’t get in at the first 15 seconds of 9:30? Are the awkward photos of celebrities being photographed at a corner of the building going to be taken down if we’re not at the front of the lines, rather than the back? Are you telling me that if I don’t cut everyone right now, I’m not going to be able to see that photo of Melissa McCarthy standing in a very vague spot at the Empire State Building? Well, shit, y’all, if only I’d known that earlier!
I don’t understand why we’re always in a hurry — why we can’t handle waiting in lines. It is e x h a u s t i n g to watch people get impatient over things that don’t matter, like being Group 2 or Group 7 on a Delta flight. We’re all riding Delta, so none of us are gonna enjoy our trip, anyway. Something to think about.
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What are everyone’s thoughts on their houseplants these days? Are they enjoying this heat wave? Are they surviving this heat wave? I’ll tell ya: I may be dying in this humidity, but my plants are thriving. They are growing faster than I ever did, which is not saying much, but it is definitely saying something. I have this snake plant that began as a tiny lil baby and is now half my size. So that means it’s like eleven feet tall now. I have another plant named Gilda that I grew in a mug, even though people told me that the mug wasn’t gonna let it thrive and that it would die in that there mug. But Gilda proved everyone wrong. She is just out here growing and doing impressions of Barbara Walters (IYKYK). It really is so beautiful. My apartment has so much clean oxygen that I don’t even need my inhaler in here. But out there? In Rat City? That red inhaler is in my Baggu every time I go out there. Okay, it wasn’t in my Baggu today because I can’t find it. But TOMORROW, it will be back in there. I just don’t like to lie to you guys, and I want you to know that my inhaler is not always with me, even though it should be. It really feels good to be truthful about my inhaler. Thank you for asking about it.
Welcome to Circle Back’s first segment of WDTM ~ What Does This Mean where we talk about headlines that make us think, now what the fresh hell does this mean? Today’s headline: How Gen Z became obsessed with subtitles. This article seems to specifically be talking about Stranger Things and the very unique captioning that goes with it if you have the captions on. For example, “Eldritch humming” or “Desiccated withering.” Eldritch is another word for supernatural. The words they use for these scenes are very funny and fun to read, but this article is saying that Gen Z likes to have captions so they can read what’s happening in the scene before it happens and then go back to looking at their phones. I don’t agree with that at all! My mom is on her phone more than I am when we’re watching a show together, and she literally needs those captions to understand what’s going on because SHE CAN NOT HEAR. Generations above the Zoomers love to make phones and social media the reason why they do anything. And while that is true for some things, it’s not everything. Is it Gen Z’s fault that the generations before them created a world where technology rules everything just in time for the Zoomers to grow up in it? Tell It To The Judge. I’ll tell you right now that I have captions on for everything I watch because:
My mother is deaf, so we had them on all the time.
I have no idea what anyone’s saying ever, so therefore in conclusion captions help with that.
Because shut up.
People really can write about anything these days, so I guess that means Follow Your Dreams Never Give Up Learn How To Read So You Can Use Captions When You Watch Stranger Things!
Just wanted to give a quick update on me wearing more brown lately: it looks great. More to come.
Marvel just announced, like, 47 more movies that are coming out in the next few years. I do not want this. That is too many. Whenever a Marvel movie is released, it takes up more than half of the rooms in a movie theatre, which takes away from all of the other movies that are out. Independent films don’t get as much space in public viewing that Marvel does. I went to the movies the other day, and the new Thor movie was showing in almost all of the theatre rooms; there were maybe three rooms that had other movies. Exhausting!! When did we all sign a form saying we all love superhero movies and military propaganda! Probably the same day we all signed a form saying we like having subtitles on the screen so. we can be on our phones at the same time. That is too many Marvel movies. I don’t know who the Winter Soldier is. I don’t know where the Avengers are right now. I do not like a captain named after America. I want to go to see Nope by Jordan Peele and watch our savior Keke Palmer save us from unidentified flying things, and I want to watch Marcel the Shell sing Peaceful, Easy Feeling by The Eagles (Dad, this is the only time I want to hear The Eagles do not take advantage of this).
THIS JUST IN: I am returning to Chicago in a few days for another music festival and also to see my lil baby qt cat Lucky again. It will have been nine days since I was last there. I wonder if things have changed since then … perhaps the weather has changed, the leaves have fallen, the kiddos are back in school, maybe if we’re lucky there’s a new mayor … I dunno. A girly can dream. But anyway, I will be sending out next week’s from lil ol Chitown, so let me know if you can tell that there’s more of a Midwest energy in Circle Back’s words next time you read this. I may be saying, “ope sorry” a little more often when I write, and you also may be able to tell if my As are flatter, as well. Oh, that’s not something you can tell from reading words? Challenge accepted.
MOVIE REC OF THE WEEK: Shiva Baby
ALBUM REC OF THE WEEK: Surrender by Maggie Rogers, but here’s the thing it released on July 29th so you have a few days and I’m honestly very nervous about this album because I think it might be really bad but I also think we should all give it a try David Byrne seems to like it so I’m going to listen to it all the way through
ok so long buckos c u next time !