newsletter Real: Here for It, #335 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I dunno, y'all, I think they're serious about the Real ID thing this time. Every time I've flown for the last six years, I've seen those signs at the TSA checkpoint
newsletter Potions: Here for It, #334 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I'm not so much a hypochondriac as I am someone who finds deep satisfaction in stacking coupons at CVS for various products, tinctures, and medications to the point where I am basically leaving the store with a
newsletter Live: Here for It, #333 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I have been in LA for almost a week and now I look like this: The Griffith Observatory is, I believe, the home that Melanie Griffith bought with the money she made from Working Girl. It's high
newsletter Blue: Here for It, #332 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Today is the day that I look forward to every year. And almost every year, I forget about it until it's here. I think the reason is I never know when it's coming, or even
newsletter Meal: Here for It, #331 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I'm at a destination wedding in Mexico today and that means this evening I get to play my favorite game: What Did Past Eric Think He Wanted to Eat?! It's really delightful, isn't
newsletter Drive: Here for It, #330 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Yesterday, one of my brothers texted me a link to my own Instagram story and wrote "Why didn't someone tell me that you have that amazing dog?!?" I appreciate that Stephen (normally very chill, lowkey
newsletter Break: Here for It, #329 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Look, I'm going to be honest with you--I do not know what is happening with that Australian breakdancer Raygun and I do not agree with it, spiritually, but one thing is for sure and that's
newsletter Sport: Here for It, #328 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! There is never a time in my life when I'm more gleefully confused than I am when I'm watching the 'lympics. Like, right now I'm watching Simone Biles spin and flip on
newsletter Ten: Here for It, #327 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I took myself on a little adventure this weekend. Real talk, though: I feel like everything I do is a little adventure. Sometimes I go to the grocery store and I'm blasting The Notebook on my earbuds
newsletter Tea: Here for It, #326 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I love when I get to introduce two friends I like very much in hopes that they'll like each other, too! This rarely goes badly but even when it does, wow what a show! One such intro
newsletter Bot: Here for It, #325 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I am convinced that my rental management company has replaced their property maintenance person with AI. I don't know nothin' 'bout nothin' but I don't think ChatGPT is exactly helpful in the
newsletter Preach: Here for It, #324 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! 💡My forthcoming advice column has a new email address! Send questions to eric@askingeric.com or submit them anonymously here. I'm packing to go to Pittsburgh for a conference. Pittsburgh is one of my favorite cities despite
newsletter Open: Here for It, #323 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Last night we opened my new play! I love openings because they're the moment when we, the creative team, hand a play over to an audience. It is the beginning of a thing that has had so
newsletter Tech: Here for It, #322 Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Once again I am writing you from Tech for a new play. This is not a popular opinion, I'm sure, but I love tech week. This is the time in a play's production when we
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
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
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
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’
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&
