HeyJaredReview Mode
Welcome to Review Mode, a biweekly newsletter where writer and comedian Carson Olshansky marks up their social interactions, mining their, like, medical-grade self-monitoring for your reading pleasure.
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Review Mode: Watch It! Not Everyone Who Seems Gay Is Gay (opens the original)
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Welcome to Review Mode, a biweekly newsletter where I mark up my social interactions, mining my, like, medical-grade self-monitoring for your reading pleasure.Is it a problem to tell a self-identified musical theater person they do indeed clearly have musical theater person energy? And how about if that person is a straight man?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwnS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media
Review Mode: Accidental Passive Aggression Is Still Passive Aggression (opens the original)
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Welcome to Review Mode, a biweekly newsletter where I mark up my social interactions, mining my, like, medical-grade self-monitoring for your reading pleasure.When I was bemoaning to my boyfriend how neither of us was assertive enough to get us to the front of the line at the bar, the guy in front of us moved aside, which certainly didn’t feel amazing. <a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1_U9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-p
Review Mode: You Can’t Actually ‘Promise Not to Judge’ and Mean It (opens the original)
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Welcome to Review Mode, a biweekly newsletter where I mark up my social interactions, mining my, like, medical-grade self-monitoring for your reading pleasure.I have to imagine that anyone who asks me to “promise not to judge” before sharing a story knows that I can’t actually guarantee that, since I don’t know what they’re about to tell me. I think what the phrase actually means is, “I’m acknowledging that what I’m about to tell you is judge-able.” And some stories are very judge-able.<a class=
Review Mode: You Can’t Fly Solo If You Suck at Parties (opens the original)
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Welcome to Review Mode, a biweekly newsletter where I mark up my social interactions, mining my, like, medical-grade self-monitoring for your reading pleasure.“I’m sure people I know will be at this party,” I think, as I make my way over to the bar. “And anyway, I’m an adult. I’ve come a long way. I don’t need to always make sure that a close friend is going and ask them when they’re gonna get there.”Turns out, I haven’t come that long a way. I do need to make sure that a friend is going, and I
Review Mode: Don’t Sing Along If You Don’t Know the Words (opens the original)
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Welcome to Review Mode, a biweekly newsletter where I mark up my social interactions, mining my, like, medical-grade self-monitoring for your reading pleasure.One of my favorite things about concerts is how being in a crowd of people enjoying music together can make all my self-consciousness just fall away. Thing is, some situations warrant being at least a little bit conscious of oneself.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mqsC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progr
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