newsletter Green: Here for It, #321 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Today is my birthday! As a special treat, tomorrow I will be blocking out the sun for a few minutes over much of North America! Also, I have something to give you for my birthday! I have a new
newsletter Dome: Here for It, #320 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Okay, one more story about Italy and then I will go back to my regular programming (recapping My Best Friend's Wedding for the 90th time). On our second day in Florence, we decided to go to the
newsletter Ciao!: Here for It, #319 Ciao, sono R. Eric Thomas. Da Internet? CIAO! I am writing this to you from Italy! What a lark! Well, technically, by the time I'm done this I'll be writing on the plane, and whenever you read this I'll be back in America (crowd
newsletter Recs: Here for It, #318 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Or, should I say, bon jor no (sp?)! I am writing to you from Italy! Well, no, that's technically not true. Whenever you read this, I'll be in Italy but I am actually writing to
newsletter Nuts: Here for It, #317 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I started seeing a new ENT because I've been having some problems with, y'know, breathing. I saw an ENT about a decade ago and got what is officially referred to on my medical records as
newsletter Niche: Here for It, #316 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Last night my friends Byron and Lawrence held another one of their Soup Parties, which readers of this here digest may remember as the Best Thing I Have Ever Done. I ran into them out and about the other
New: Here for It, #315 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I am starting to think that I will not be a new version of myself this year. I've never really been a New Year/New Me person anyway. I always want to be but there are a
newsletter Celebrate: Here for It, #314 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! We had a little to-do at the house this week. Nothing big. I bought a lot of champagne but it turns out people don't go in for champagne like that. I don't really know what
ANN!: Here for It, #313 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the Ann Patchett Fan Club? Hi! AAAAAGH! As you may be aware, last Monday I got to do an event in Baltimore where I was in conversation with Ann Patchett of the Ann Patchett fan club and--I say this completely without hyperbole--my
newsletter Giving: Here for It, #312 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Look, I'm not pointing any fingers but it seems that Friendsgiving has been getting earlier and earlier every year. Online I started seeing people gathered at their friends' houses for an evening of bonding and Beaujolais
Drizzle: Here for It, #311 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Well, y'know, I love to vote. First of all, to have an opinion about something is a terrific use of one's time. And then to be compelled to have an opinion as a way to
newsletter Robot: Here for It, #310 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Okay, so I walk into this crowded Szechuan restaurant the other night and I see one of those little restaurant robots coming toward me. Do you know the kind I mean? They look like an air purifier with a
newsletter Typewriter: Here for It, #309 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I am sitting at the gate in a North Carolina airport, eavesdropping on a group of seemingly well-heeled parents from Malvern, PA recapping their wild weekend of drinking and carrying on at Wake Forest and it’s like I’
Again: Here for It, #308 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Okay, I cannot--nay, will not--allow this newsletter to just become a repository for my thoughts about "the aliens" (which, of course, boil down to "I don't give a flamin' hot damn about them&
newsletter Tourists: Here for It, #307 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I load four full grocery bags into the back of an Uber picking me up from the Stop and Shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and climbed in the back seat. As we pulled away, the driver remarked that she didn&
Wowee: Here for It, #306 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I had never been to Sardi's before, the famous New York restaurant where they post caricatures of celebrities on the wall, but I walked by it on my way to see a performance of Alex Edelman'
newsletter Stamps: Here for It, #305 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! THE NEW BOOK IS OUT!!! There's this hilarious--to me--thing that happens when you're sitting at a table in public, available to sign books but not the reason that people might be in the same space
newsletter Aliens: Here for It, #304 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Okay, I'm going to say something controversial. And, the truth is I probably shouldn't be out here logging on to AOL and saying controversial things because I have a book coming out in two days
newsletter Afternoon: Here for It, #303 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! It’s been a week since I got back from Scotland which means it’s been a week since I’ve said the words “it’s 2pm; should we have a spot of tea?” And frankly my life is
Chaos: Here for It, #302 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Okay, so remember last week when I said I can never nap? Well, apparently the solution to that problem is to introduce a little thing I like to call Time Zone Chaos. I just woke up from my second
Heaven: Here for It, #301 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I'm considering letting myself be held hostage by a timeshare salesperson again. So, I'm currently at a resort in Puerto Vallarta on vacation. I didn't used to think of myself as a resort
Pencils: Here for It, #300 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! One of the things I love about recording audiobooks, as I've just done for Congratulations, the Best Is Over!, is that I learn new words from a book that I have written myself using my own brain
newsletter Television: Here for It, #299 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I MET A PUPPET! That's the headline. This feels deeply important because most of my life is not puppet-adjacent so to be, as I mentioned, not only near a puppet but engaged in conversation with said puppet?
newsletter 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
newsletter 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