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Relaxed: Here for It, #298

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! A couple weeks ago I went to LA for professional reasons. Well, were they professional reasons? It was mostly just to hang out, but I wanted to hang out in Hollywood, a place that I sometimes Zoom with, so I think

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Trial: Here for It, #297

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Okay, so I think we can all agree that my first mistake was clicking on an Instagram ad. Every year, Instagram figures out enough about me to know that I want a chunky sweater with a bold pattern, but never figures

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Question: Here for It, #296

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! On Friday night I was in Williamston, Michigan, at the great Williamston Theater for a performance of my play Mrs. Harrison. Just before the start of the show, the executive director, Emily Sutton-Smith, bounded up on stage and launched into a

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Pageant: Here for It, #295

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I don’t think we give enough credit to the pageantry of this time of year. I mean, there’s obviously the nature aspect of it--trees kitting themselves up in full drag of flowers and doing a dramatic reveal of leaves

Water: Here for It, #294

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Greetings from Philadelphia where I am writing this to you instead of scouring the ravaged streets for bottled water. The commitment, the shortsightedness, the lack of executive function--it's truly breathtaking! Why do I need bottled water? Well, we're in a real

Moon: Here for It, #293

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! As we pulled into the airport in Austin, my heretofore silent Uber driver suddenly had a flurry of opinions about the design of international airport arrivals gates. I love when people start ranting out of nowhere because it feels like when

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Lego: Here for It, #292

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! 💡(If this newsletter gets cut off in your inbox, click here to read it.) A few weeks ago I went to Charleston to visit one of my brothers, my sister-in-law, and their two kids. It had been years since I saw

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Soup: Here for It, #291

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I have to tell you about the soup party! A night of intrigue, double crosses, and liquid danger! A few weeks ago, our friends Byron and Lawrence mentioned that they were having a soup party at their place. I was like

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Tickets: Here for It, #290

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! So, I’m on a plane right now and it’s Sunday night and the Super Bowl has just started between the Eagles and the Chiefs. The flight attendants asked who on-board was a Chiefs fan and three people raised their

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Impressed!: Here for It, #289

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week let's play Does It Impress Me?, a game I just made up which takes its theme from the Shania Twain's masterpiece and a seminal work of Brad Pitt right-sizing "That Don't Impress Me Much" from her 1997 album Come

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Hamburgle: Here for It, #288

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Okay, hello, before we get down to business I need to let you know the very good news that I've written another book of essays and it has a cover and that cover is great and it comes out in August.

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Wed. thread: To be a dolphin

Walk: Here for It, #287

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Last week Oprah Winfrey kidnapped Gayle King and we were all too busy not electing a Speaker of the House to notice! (By the by, I spent the week watching 20 fringe lunatics play in Kevin McCarthy's face with both glee

Resolved!: Here for It, #286

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! One of my most annoying traits is that I loudly refuse to make resolutions at New Year's. Me making promises to and about my future self?! Unacceptable. I have no idea what that guy is going to do. He's nuts. If

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Wed. thread: Toby Fleishman's party house

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Leftovers: Here for It, #285

I am making Thanksgiving stuffing again today because I am an adult and no one can stop me.

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Film: Here for It, #284

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Yesterday I watched Margin Call, which is a movie from 2011 about a Goldman Sachs-like finance company that sees the writing on the wall at the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis. I love watching tense lil financial movies even though

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Double: Here for It, #283

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! When I went to go vote on Tuesday and told the poll worker my name, she looked me up and said “Robert Thomas? You already voted by mail.” But, reader, I did not vote by mail because mailing things stresses me

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Phans: Here for It, #282

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Greetings from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where the citywide mood is whatever the spiritual opposite of a disaster movie is. Like, we have all the outward signs of a disaster movie--streets closed off by flashing police cars, hoards of people choking traffic, the

Road: Here for It, #281

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Hey folks, how ya doing? Me? I just drove across the country and boy are my arms tired! Actually, we drove across the country last week and I'm writing this from Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta on a different trip, but time

Flannel: Here for It, #280

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! David and I went to a Death Cab for Cutie concert this week and it was such an exciting experience! The first thing you need to know is that, going in, I was completely unfamiliar with the collected works of Mr.

Pickle Security: Here for It, #279

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Yesterday, I went down to Baltimore to sit on a panel and, as I was coming from the train station to the museum where the panel was being held, I passed an outdoor event called The Big Dill, which is billed

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Oh, Hello: Here for It, #278

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Oh my goodness, hello! I've missed you! It's been so long! (In case you're legit like "Okay, who are you and how did you get into my house?" the long and short of it is this is my weekly newsletter where

Mirror: Here for It, #277

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I was standing in the new Moynihan Train Hall in New York City, hovering near a line that I thought was the line for my train but about which there was no signage yet. I often navigate the nation's Amtrak stations

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Kings of B'more is out now!

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! It's a Tuesday so you know that either means I'm late with the email or I have a book out. It turns out the answer is... both. Kings of B'more [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669791/kings-of-bmore-by-r-eric-thomas/] , my new YA novel,