I wondered how Villanelle got hold of the video chat, too. And I got no answer.

One of my favorite movies ever.

Or another of his fluids, I suppose.

No mention of Rubberman clinging to the ceiling while the two young nonentities were snooping through Langdon’s laptop?

And with a back that crooked, her posture would not be so ramrod perfect.

Yeah, I got out of the copyediting biz a decade ago, and years before that the fairly fancy university presses I worked for had given up hiring proofreaders, leaving the chore to spellcheck and authors (who generally stink at proofing). I shiver to think what must be going on now.

That girl sure was clean given her predicament.

Yeah, I’m too old (I saw THE EXORCIST when it first came out—now that one was a shocker [and I’d even read the book before I saw it, so I knew what I was in for]) and have seen too many horror movies to be very rattled by them anymore. Really, I thought this movie was perfectly okay, but all the over-the-top raving…

You were disappointed, weren’t you?

It’s the hyperbole that drives me crazy. Why can’t things just be good? Or even merely okay? Why do they always have to be the best (or worst) thing EVAH!!! I end up disliking perfectly all right movies because I’m so annoyed at the over-the-top reactions to them.

Yup.

You were wise to doubt.

It’s not.

Anybody’s, please.

More important, what was he licking off his fingers as he walked downstairs to get himself a nice bowl of ice cream?

As a person from away who has lived in Maine more than half my life, I do, too.

That’s why I’m watching it today. 

Made me laugh out loud, though. Unlike the episode.

Ha! Hello to you, too.

Closing Quotation Mark did seem like a weird, inefficient nickname.