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A collection of 332 posts

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Focus: Here for It, #267

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Personally I love daylight savings time because I am a huge fan of arbitrary chaos. The sun is pulled up outside your house, honking the horn, yelling "If you don't get your behind up, I swear

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Tech: Here for It, #266

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This crazy thing happened at the parking lot outside the theater this week. Hello and welcome to CarTalk, apparently. I love that there's 9,000 theater- and book- and TV-related things going on in my life and

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Wed. thread: In which everybody wants to be a cat

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Tow: Here for It, #265

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! My car was towed the other day and I want to preface this by acknowledging that it was absolutely my fault. And also, equally important, I am not interested in taking any responsibility for my actions whatsoever. I deserved

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Think: Here for It, #263

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! On Friday, I was standing on a street corner, waiting for the light to change, minding my own Black business. I was deep in thought, trying to work out some questions I had about a character's backstory

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Skate: Here for It, #262

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Yes, the rumors are true. I have been receiving numerous frantic calls from world leaders, persons of note, and assorted potentates all asking if I will please compete in the 'lympics and restore glory and honor to our

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Spy: Here for It, #261

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Back when I was in college, there was this pair of plays running in England called House and Garden, both by Alan Ayckbourn. I was obsessed with them even though I had no way of seeing them, I barely

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Shoe: Here for It, #260

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Y'all, I have been on the battlefield, fighting valiantly to avoid being drawn into this national controversy around the M&Ms. Alas, like a full candy bowl three days before Halloween, it's irresistible to

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Glasses: Here for It, #259

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! It occurs to me that we may be past the golden age of novelty eyeglasses with lenses made from the digits in the year. It was a flame that burned so hot throughout the 90s but, like other hits

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Year: Here for It, #257

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Baby New Year does an annoying little tap-tap-tap on my office door even though the door is mostly closed and has a little Post-It note affixed to it that reads Don't start none, won't be

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Where: Here for It, #255

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I am writing this from the past! If all is going according to plan, as you receive this I'm flying back from someplace called "The Equator"? Now, while I don't believe in "

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Year: Here for It, #254

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Every year I think about sending end-of-year letters. I want to believe that I am an end-of-year letter person. I truly, in my heart of hearts, think that I am absolutely the kind of person who organizes a photo

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Over: Here for It, #253

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I am obsessed with the cultural ceremony around a new Adele album. We spend most of our lives being (or at least pretending to be) well-adjusted, even-keeled, and generally over most of our exes but the minute she drops

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Niche: Here for It, #250

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Happy Mariah Carey Eve [https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a34535818/mariah-carey-not-yet-season/], everyone!* I don't really watch anime, which is a personal failing that I must answer to the Lord about, so every year on Halloween when

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Number: Here for It, #247

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Yesterday I was picking up clothes from the dry cleaners because October 2021 is the month that every 2020 wedding is happening. As I left, I heard the person behind me give her number to pick up her clothes.

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View: Here for It, #246

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I am writing to you (later than usual!) with one eye on the Tony Awards broadcast where currently Nancy Botwin from Weeds is wearing a gown and a mask and looking bemused while watching Mr. Shue sing "You

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Theme: Here for It, #245

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I looked at the photos from last Monday's Met Gala and I really had the Tia and Temerity to think "Ah, it's nice to get a small return to normalcy." Wut are you

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Outside: Here for It, #244

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! As you are no doubt aware, I am in an ongoing battle with the concept of Outside. Me, arriving at Judge Judy to prosecute Outside for damages and emotional distress: Me, introducing myself to Outside knowing full well I&

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Rose: Here for It, #243

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Hi hi! A quick lil email newsletter this week. I was going to front like the reason for the brevity was that I was taking advantage of the holiday weekend but I literally forgot it is a holiday weekend.

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Bike: Here for It, #242

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Am I suspicious of the recent proliferation of paparazzi photos of Zoe Kravitz (winner of the amicably divorced parents lottery) and Channing Tatum (winner of the "bachelorette party dancer-to-international superstar" pipeline lottery) hanging out together? Yes, obviously,

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Beep: Here for It, #241

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I believe it was the philosopher Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott who once posed the question "Beep beep; who's got the keys to the Jeep?" This is from, of course, the 1997 song "The

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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

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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

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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

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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