Hey there!
First of all, welcome to all the folks who signed up for my mailing list after reading the article about my game show on TMZ. The link to sign up for today's show is below. This is my weekly email where I send out info about my shows as well as three things that I enjoyed this week and I think you will too.
To everyone else, who was already on this list... I'm guessing you can tell I had a pretty surreal week. When I got a phone call from an unknown number and the guy on the other end introduced himself as a reporter for TMZ, I thought it was clearly either a prank or identity theft. But then, hilariously, it turned out to be real. All it took was a global pandemic for me to make it into the gossip pages.
But then again, nothing really seems that surprising anymore! Who could possibly predict what will happen tomorrow? I'm just doing my best to live in the moment. I hope you are too.
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This week’s list
GREAT:
I've been a fan of Suleika Jaouad's writing for a long time. She's written about finding beauty and joy despite illness or isolation for years now. And this month, she's been taking that expertise and sending out daily prompts for journaling. I've been doing them every morning and it's been such a calming mental escape from the stresses of everything going on. Prompts have come from not just Suleika but also friends of hers like Ann Patchett, Mavis Staples, and Jon Batiste. The Isolation Journals
FUNNY:
The perfect nonfiction format for comedy is a Grub Street Diet. You get a little glimpse into a person's routines, you hear about their favorite local shops and restaurants, and they have so many opportunities to make you laugh with the mundane details of their lives. I love them. Bess Kalb, comedy writer and author of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, wrote a quarantine edition for NY Mag and it's spectacular. I laughed out loud multiple times. Here are all the canned bean and Alison Roman jokes you desperately need. Bess Kalb Finally Made #TheStew
Other notably fantastic Grub Street Diets: Aparna Nancherla's (which was so good that Tom Hanks tweeted out "Thanks, Aparna! Happy 2017"), Maeve Higgins, Sam Bee, Max Silvestri, and Gary Shteyngart. Now you have all the information you need to spend tonight going deep down a food diary rabbit hole.
INTERESTING:
Along with trying to write every morning, I've gotten very interesting in artists who keep visual journals. I think they're so fascinating. Geoff McFetridge is an incredible visual artist who shared his painted observations of a changed LA. The Pandemic Has Turned Los Angeles Into a Walking City
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Stay safe and take care of each other,
Chris