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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Wed. thread: In which we pump up the jam

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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

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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

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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-

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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-

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Wed. thread: In which the music has a moment

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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-

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

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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

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

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Tomorrow: Here for It, #217

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! In the middle of last spring, I started writing a series for ELLE.com [https://www.elle.com/remote-rewind/] where I rewatched some of my favorite films and wrote about them through the lens of our collective quarantine

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Wed. thread: In which I refresh my browsing

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Dogs: Here for It, #216

Hi! It's R. Eric Thomas. From the internet? Hi! The minute I sat down to write this newsletter I received a push notification from my NextDoor app. Now, you, me, and Gladys Kravitz know that I do love me some NextDoor app shenanigans, where a post about a

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Wed. thread: In which we wear 101 WIGS