December Week 1
you put a record on, you plug in the twinkle lights, that's gonna be a big thumbs up.
I agreed to do some live shows coming up, and I’m already nervous even though some of them are months away. I stopped doing standup three years ago, and quickly after, I adapted to the home at night lifestyle. You take a nap before dinner, you wake up disoriented and ravenous, you eat something weird, you watch a show, you eat a snack, you go to bed at 9. I know that sounds sad, but what if I told you movie star Glen Powell has the same routine?
He doesnt! Gotcha!
Passions this week include: ranch oyster crackers, Fisk, and wearing a big coat on the bus.
I had the most amazing food I’ve ever had at my friend Dawn’s house. Her roommate had a big tupperware full of oyster crackers, and I thought huh that’s a strange place to store your oyster crackers. When I asked about them, she told me they’re ranch oyster crackers. You rebake already fully baked crackers with ranch powder and oil and garlic powder. She let me try some. Those things are out of this world! I keep offering to make them and bring them to people’s houses, and people keep refusing, which pisses me off! Must be because they haven’t tried them yet. It’s Chex Mix for the soup crowd!
Speaking of the soup crowd, I just started watching this Australian show called Fisk based on Emmy Blotnick’s recommendation, and I am laughing so much! It’s about a divorced lawyer named Helen Tudor-Fisk who hates people, loves soup, and only wears big brown suits. In episode one, she goes to work at this new law office for wills and probates. The office manager played by Aaron Chen (HE IS SO FUNNY!) asks if she wants her office decorated, and offers to get her a poster… ah wait, I’m actually not going to ruin the joke by writing it out from feeble memories. It will be much funnier if you watch it.
Something about wearing a big coat on the bus makes me hunch until my body’s a candy cane shape, then as a bonus, no one sits next to me. They think I’m going to the hospital, but jokes on them, I’m going to the library! And guess what position I’ll be doing in the library? More hunching!
And now a few from the readers…
Anna-Liza: “Buying books even though I’ve yet to finish reading the stack by my bedside. I end up ordering new storage solutions for them. Probably counts as two passions: book buying & ordering more storage!”
Rachel: “My current passion is going to pre-concerts (aka listening to the entire setlist of a concert before I buy a ticket). Then, once it’s real-concert time, I don’t have anxiety about if I’ll be the only one in the crowd who isn’t somehow singing along or if they’re going to play my favorite song--all I have to do is show up and relax. This has been a polarizing passion in my social circle but has gotten me to more concerts in the past few months than in the past few years.”
mg: “one of my recent passions is gossip girl.. its just so addictive!”
Zygy: “My passion is pipes that don’t leak. We got a new dishwasher and when I turned it on, it leaked. The store sent someone who fixed it, but after they left, when I turned on the washing machine, that leaked. A third person came who fixed that leak. I love putting my hand in the bowl under the pipes because now it’s dry.”
If you have a passion, you can reply to this email with 1-2 sentences about it!