R. Eric Thomas

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #199

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: the Moon [https://bit.ly/3dUd4Tf]: what does it want from us and why?; Maxine and the meme [https://bit.ly/2HBoWh0]; Chris-course takes over Hollywood [https://bit.ly/3kun5Jl]; and the last trip to Lovecraft Country

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #198

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: the real monster [https://bit.ly/3je3awG] in Lovecraft Country and the real monster [https://bit.ly/2T2enG9] on the debate stage. David and I celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary this week with dinner at home and

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #197

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Aaaagh, part deux. Plus, there was another debate [https://bit.ly/2SKSmLJ]? Trump is immune to reality [https://bit.ly/3iMBVJn], and another visit to Lovecraft Country [https://bit.ly/3iRtNqW]. For reasons unknown to me I

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #196

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: AAAAGH. Also: Katie Porter’s portable Whiteboard of Justice wins the day [https://bit.ly/3nkiXgD], there was a debate? [https://bit.ly/2HOc7Qe], and returning Trump’s taxes [https://bit.ly/3lebBtj]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hmm. Can you

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #195

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: I interviewed an Emmy winner [https://bit.ly/2FXN64O] about thirst tweets, in praise of laugh tracks [https://bit.ly/346Q6Ur], and won’t someone think of the poor senators [https://bit.ly/342u5WO]. Somehow in our

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas #194

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: rewatching Watchmen [https://bit.ly/3cf7vOp]; Gladys and Patti are the best thing that ever happened to me [https://bit.ly/3hLQOLG]; teacher TikTok is terrific; Lovecraft Country [https://bit.ly/32Mwwx3] does a body swap episode.

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #193

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Thank [https://bit.ly/2ZBkk0h]you [https://bit.ly/2ZBkk0h]for being a friend, Tracee Ellis Ross [https://bit.ly/2ZBkk0h]; plus another journey into Lovecraft Country. Some members of David’s church were asking for our

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #192

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: an in-depth interview with Chasten Buttigieg and another dispatch from Lovecraft Country. So, the long and short of it is that I just wanted to save $75 and eat a burger. The American Dream! But like the

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #191

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Reporting live from Lovecraft Country plus I was in TODAY! We finally moved into our house yesterday so that means I am writing to you from our back porch, staring at the woods, waiting to become the

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #190

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Steve Bannon got yacht rocked [https://bit.ly/2EiSAWS]; Michelle Obama once again clanged the Liberty Bell [https://bit.ly/32oPHfk]; I have another doppelgänger. Welcome to new subscribers! Every week I round up my most recent

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #189

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! One of my best qualities is that I am extremely suspicious and also deeply gullible. I would say this is evidence that I contain multitudes but really I just contain two tudes. One is this GIF: And the other

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #188

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Shiny happy people everywhere?? [https://bit.ly/3fCJzo8] I don’t know how to explain this but I just feel like hummingbirds are too nosey. No shade to the hummingbird community at large (at small?); I like

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #187

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Greetings from my new home in Michelle Obama’s podcast studio! Me: You know what I hate? You: Injustice! Me: Oh. Well, yes, I do hate that. That’s true. But I was actually referring to something

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #186

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: I just dropped in to see what condition my cognition was in. This morning, while playing a video of a song during David’s online church service, my attention wandered and I started looking out the window.

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #185

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Ivanka Trump: job counselor [https://bit.ly/2ZFZ5uO]; Andrew Cuomo: outsider artist. [https://bit.ly/39at696] One of my grandmothers had a voice like a fire alarm. It was high-pitched and throaty at the same time. It

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #184

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Kanyes we can? [https://bit.ly/3iWWEvx] I do a lot of research when I write drama or fiction. I do this firstly because I like to actually be good at what I do but, perhaps more

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #183

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Yesterday as I drove back to my apartment from my house (I currently have too many rooms of one’s own) covered in dirt and utterly exhausted from beginning the process of digging out a flagstone walkway behind our

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #182

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Water you laughing at? [https://bit.ly/2YE13es] It is a truth universally that a couple in possession of their wits and at peace with each other and the world, must be in want of a trip

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #181

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Some goodies from the vault. One of the best things to happen to me personally this week was the opening of a new bakery in which I have no financial standing and the success of which will

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #180

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Elmo is our antifa overlord [https://bit.ly/2zAv3hQ], throw every crusty old monument in the ocean, and an interview with Judy Greer. R. Eric Thomas enters a press briefing room surrounded by a phalanx of lawyers,

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #179

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: on the narrative of protest and progress [https://bit.ly/2AHzeIN] I don’t know how to begin this. 1...At the supermarket, I saw a black queer couple shopping for produce. They pushed a cart with

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #178

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: on Christian Cooper, George Floyd, and Omar Jimenez and being good [https://bit.ly/2Xk5Wsz]; the Normal People [https://bit.ly/3dgEvW9]man takes a walk [https://bit.ly/3dgEvW9]; and reviewing Hannah Gadsby’s new special

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #177

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: SMASH FOREVER! [https://bit.ly/3c2drZc] Kimmy Schmidt [https://bit.ly/2XwsBB0] makes me do labor. And Harry Styles: produce fiend. [https://bit.ly/36xYBIT] Excuse me, but I just have to say I find it very

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #176

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: I must mask you a question [https://bit.ly/3dUZygY], I must ask Patti Lupone [https://bit.ly/2Zdg7AG] many questions, and I must ask the robot dog [https://bit.ly/3fWPAxc] to stay far away from

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Here for It w/ R. Eric Thomas, #175

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: Channing Tatum’s gold pants?! So, the thing is I am very interested in this concept of a Zoom PowerPoint party. Or, I suppose, a real life PowerPoint party, should I ever deign to put on pants