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Bike: Here for It, #242

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,

29 Aug 2021 6 min read

Beep: Here for It, #241

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

22 Aug 2021 6 min read

Swimming: Here for It, #240

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

15 Aug 2021 6 min read

Pleasant: Here for It, #239

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

08 Aug 2021 7 min read

Nah: Here for It, #236

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

18 Jul 2021 4 min read

Business: Here for It, #235

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

11 Jul 2021 10 min read

Now: Here for It, #234

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

04 Jul 2021 8 min read

Pop-Up: Here for It, #232

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&

20 Jun 2021 7 min read

Crown: Here for It, #231

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

13 Jun 2021 5 min read

There: Here for It, #230

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&

06 Jun 2021 6 min read

Wed. thread: In which we pump up the jam

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Wed. thread: In which we pump up the jam

03 Jun 2021 4 min read

Boom: Here for It, #229

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

30 May 2021 9 min read

Notice: Here for It, #228

Notice: Here for It, #228

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! First of all, last week's email was number 227 and, shockingly, I didn't even think to make a reference to the superb sitcom of the same name. I only just now realized this as I

16 May 2021 7 min read

Props: Here for It, #227

Props: Here for It, #227

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! It seems clear at this juncture that I have devoted my entire personality to being obsessed with that giant space rocket that, uh, fell out of space yesterday. Well, actually I have two current obsessions: the 10-story, 22-ton rocket

09 May 2021 6 min read

Dunkies: Here for It, #226

Dunkies: Here for It, #226

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Friends with Benniferts [https://pagesix.com/2021/04/30/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-hanging-out-after-alex-rodriguez-split/] Hmmm. Ah. I see. Wait, why would I use that meme when this one is available?! I just need a minute's peace. Now, I have a lot

02 May 2021 8 min read

Whale: Here for It, #225

Whale: Here for It, #225

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: RuPaul is serving Senate realness; where's the Leeloo Dallas x Anthony Fauci collab?; paging Noah Baumbach; and I have a fun dystopian adventure at a football stadium The first thing I saw when I pulled

25 Apr 2021 11 min read

Fashion: Here for It, #224

Fashion: Here for It, #224

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! This week: The Met Gala saw Hamilton once and now we have to deal with it; Jennifer Lopez & Barbra Streisand is a pairing that I never thought of but never want to live without; Drew Barrymore is in

18 Apr 2021 11 min read

Monster: Here for It, #223

Monster: Here for It, #223

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! The other day I received an email declaring the very good news that my favorite local arthouse movie theater, The Charles, is reopening for in-person film viewing after over a year of being closed. They're showing Minari,

11 Apr 2021 6 min read

Shrunk: Here for It, #222

Shrunk: Here for It, #222

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! I know I said that the newsletter wasn't going to come this week because I was changing widgets in the flux capacitor or something, but it turns out that switching email servers didn't take as

04 Apr 2021 7 min read

Bird: Here for It, #220

Bird: Here for It, #220

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Verified GoFundMe pages for the families of Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Delain Ashley Yaun Gonzalez, Yong Yue, Paul Michels, and for the medical bills of Elcias Hernandez Ortiz. Verified GoFundMe pages [https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/atlanta-area-spa-shootings-fundraisers]

21 Mar 2021 9 min read

Wed. thread: In which the music has a moment

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Wed. thread: In which the music has a moment

17 Mar 2021 4 min read

Early: Here for It, #219

Early: Here for It, #219

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! Pictured below: me subsisting entirely on the steady diet of on-set paparazzi photos from the Gucci movie currently filming in Milan starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver: Pictured below: me patiently refreshing my Twitter browser for more on-set photos

14 Mar 2021 10 min read

Wed. thread: In which we say goodbye and hellur to the monarchy

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Wed. thread: In which we say goodbye and hellur to the monarchy

10 Mar 2021 5 min read

Ending: Here for It, #218

Ending: Here for It, #218

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! In high school, I was in a short play called Happy Ending by Douglas Turner Ward, a boundary-breaking Black playwright who was one of the founders of the Negro Ensemble Company which produced The River Niger and A Soldier’

07 Mar 2021 8 min read

Wed. thread: In which we dress up to stay in

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Wed. thread: In which we dress up to stay in

03 Mar 2021 6 min read

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