newsletter Swimming: Here for It, #240 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This year the Olympics changed the name of my favorite sport from synchronized swimming to artistic swimming which feels like a real missed opportunity to rename it ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?! I don't know why
newsletter Pleasant: Here for It, #239 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! There's this panel from the comic strip One Big Happy that I read around 1990 and immediately decided to adopt as my entire personality. The comic is about a multi-generational family--two parents, two grandparents, and two kids--but
Knit: Here for It, #238 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Hello I am obsessed with Lil Tom Daley, Olympic Gold Medalist and hobbyist knitter. Here's Tom knitting whilst watching the Women's 3m Dive earlier today. Tom and I are similar in so many ways (as
Officially: Here for It, #237 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I do love that America's Mom's Boyfriend, Dr. Anthony Fauci, sat down in front of Congress, swooped his bangs, and told Rand Paul to meet him outside. I am confused about the far-right tactic of
newsletter Nah: Here for It, #236 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! A few weeks ago I went to get a massage because I have been very tense since roughly 1982. There might have been a year in the early 2010s where I was carefree and loosey goosey because that was
newsletter Business: Here for It, #235 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! As I write this, billionaire Richard Branson is taking off into "space" on a ship painted with the word VIRGIN on a quixotic mission to spread the gospel of abstinence to extraterrestrial beings. He presses his face
newsletter Now: Here for It, #234 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! A belated but very enthusiastic Happy Audra McDonald's birthday to all who celebrate! This is exactly how I'm going to be sitting up in an empty 11 am screening of Fast & Furious 9: Now
Drama: Here for It, #233 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Yesterday, I was invited to go to one of my favorite independent bookstores, Greedy Reads in the Remington neighborhood of Baltimore, and read two children's books for Instagram story time [https://www.instagram.com/p/CQlep29JgoW/]. I
newsletter Pop-Up: Here for It, #232 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! They really do be getting me with these pop-up greeting cards. I feel like these greeting cards with a whole 3-D paper Electric Light Parade inside of them are a relatively new invention. If true (a big if) that&
newsletter Crown: Here for It, #231 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! If I was a world leader right now I think I'd just resign and go find some other job because there's no chance that I'll be on The Crown so what is really
newsletter There: Here for It, #230 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This is going to be a different sort of newsletter this week. So, I have this story about going to see the Ryan Gosling movie First Man with my father-in-law, Rick, that I like to tell. I know I&
newsletter Boom: Here for It, #229 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! A few days ago I awoke with a start to this loud boom and the house shaking! I jumped out of bed and said to David "something hit the house!" Actually, there was no exclamation point on
