Well, it’s been quite a half-year we’ve all had, here at iSmith and beyond. People are mad about stuff over there, other people are mad about other stuff in a different place, but most importantly, everyone’s mad about something and
O and A and E and I and U and sometimes Y Canada! Our home and native land and seas which are close to our land! True or false patriot love or disdain in all of us command or suggest
And then I woke up. Author’s note: For anyone following the previous 30 days of birthdays, you may have gathered that each message was essentially a separate dream, with each celebrity featured prominently in the sleep hallucination. You see –
We’re sitting at Paul Shaffer’s piano before trivia starts. I tell my teammates how crazy it is that Paul only had two jobs his whole life¹, first on SNL and then Letterman. Abe mentions that he has a crush on
Well respected, successful older actor Gary Busey is working on an independent film. On the studio lot, he runs into a director¹ he used to work for. Someone told him this director was hoping to cast him in his next
I’m in a cramped office, advising Elon Musk on how to spend his money. Me: “Try EVERYTHING, no matter how absurd it sounds.” He decides to open a brewery at the top of any ancient hill in Greece. He tries
Khloé Kardashian tells me the singer Adele has died.¹ Kelly gets sad when she hears of Adele’s death. For an unknown reason, I pretend I didn’t already know. We’re hosting a party at a hip restaurant. As Dave and Aimee
Aubrey Plaza points out that there’s an understated female Olympian who owns a chain of about fifty pharmacies that are essentially equidistant, scattered around the continental United States. She says it in a way like we need to keep our
Mark wins $1000 from a Christmas scratch-off. He doesn’t offer to share any of the money with anyone else, not even Ricky Gervais, who bought him the ticket, or to a lesser extent me, who scratched the winner for him
I’m playing basketball and getting a lot of steals. Mindy Kaling, who’s coaching the other team, takes me aside and asks matter-of-factly, not in a mean way, “Do you think your style of play is helping our girls prepare for
