The maxim of manner insight about the joke was especially on point in this one. Good post! Also for a second I thought you were going to share how to be less annoying and I got excited (I worry about being most annoying to the people I like best), but it turns out I got my expectations subverted even as you were explaining how that is done!
1) How are you doing? How is your heart? What’s new and good?
My heart is steady and strong. Put up a 1560 Activity Score on my Oura ring yesterday. My resilience is supposedly "Strong." Still feel like my HRV levels are low, but I don't really understand them and it says not to compare.
2) What were you like when you were younger?
Yesterday I was a bit depressed, especially in the morning. The weather snapping from beautiful to maximally gray may have had something to do with it. I also felt some self-loathing about having probably been annoying, actually. But I powered through and made an equinox-appropriate turn back to feeling good last night and this morning.
I've also had a good Landed match this week -- I think your writing introduced that app to me at some point, which I am grateful for!
3) What have you learned upon getting older?
Since answering the last question I have learned that the avocado toast at the 51st Street Bakery & Cafe in Queens is excellent. I have also learned that the barista was mistaken about what Aleppo Seasoning is -- it's the red stuff, not the green stuff. But it has worked out, because the red stuff might have scared me, but it's mild and tangy and I like it, it turns out.
4) Did you enjoy Mary Worth or Prince Valiant? Maybe I would now!
Oh God, I hated them.
5) How are you doing NOW? (That you’re older and wiser.)
Okay this is coming fast and hot now. I had a kind of Proustian reflection on newspaper comics since the last question, I guess, and felt connected to both you and Ken Jennings and John Roderick (they talked about Hi and Lois on a podcast I listened to walking home last night).
5) How are you doing NOW? (That you’re older and wiser.)
I've (re?-)learned to read the questions in advance next time!
Darn, no shows in Florida. Is it because you are worried about no-shows? When you are in San Francisco, though, you should do a set, at least, about the Gricean maxims, served with pasta. My local newspaper stopped carrying Mary Worth and Prince Valiant, but fortunately I can get those comics through the USA Today website. It is odd that you focused on the two I do read, and not on Apartment 3G or Rex Morgan MD, which I don't read--and if they are no longer produced, well, I wouldn't read them if they were, so there! Keep up the good work, and I hope to be able to see one of your shows one day, when I am...
I could see you taking these posts and turning them into a book of essays called the Tao of Mitch.
Thank you Julie!
That's a fun idea!
I am considering it!
The maxim of manner insight about the joke was especially on point in this one. Good post! Also for a second I thought you were going to share how to be less annoying and I got excited (I worry about being most annoying to the people I like best), but it turns out I got my expectations subverted even as you were explaining how that is done!
1) How are you doing? How is your heart? What’s new and good?
My heart is steady and strong. Put up a 1560 Activity Score on my Oura ring yesterday. My resilience is supposedly "Strong." Still feel like my HRV levels are low, but I don't really understand them and it says not to compare.
2) What were you like when you were younger?
Yesterday I was a bit depressed, especially in the morning. The weather snapping from beautiful to maximally gray may have had something to do with it. I also felt some self-loathing about having probably been annoying, actually. But I powered through and made an equinox-appropriate turn back to feeling good last night and this morning.
I've also had a good Landed match this week -- I think your writing introduced that app to me at some point, which I am grateful for!
3) What have you learned upon getting older?
Since answering the last question I have learned that the avocado toast at the 51st Street Bakery & Cafe in Queens is excellent. I have also learned that the barista was mistaken about what Aleppo Seasoning is -- it's the red stuff, not the green stuff. But it has worked out, because the red stuff might have scared me, but it's mild and tangy and I like it, it turns out.
4) Did you enjoy Mary Worth or Prince Valiant? Maybe I would now!
Oh God, I hated them.
5) How are you doing NOW? (That you’re older and wiser.)
Okay this is coming fast and hot now. I had a kind of Proustian reflection on newspaper comics since the last question, I guess, and felt connected to both you and Ken Jennings and John Roderick (they talked about Hi and Lois on a podcast I listened to walking home last night).
5) How are you doing NOW? (That you’re older and wiser.)
I've (re?-)learned to read the questions in advance next time!
Tom!
Thank you for your kind words and thoughtful answers, as always!
Glad to hear about your heart!
And the "equinox-appropriate turn back to feeling good"!
I am glad you have been enjoying Landed! I have had many meaningful experiences there!
Thank you for reminding me of Hi and Lois, and also Ken and John! Positive memories, all!
I always appreciate your sincere and thorough engagement here!
Much love
Myq
Darn, no shows in Florida. Is it because you are worried about no-shows? When you are in San Francisco, though, you should do a set, at least, about the Gricean maxims, served with pasta. My local newspaper stopped carrying Mary Worth and Prince Valiant, but fortunately I can get those comics through the USA Today website. It is odd that you focused on the two I do read, and not on Apartment 3G or Rex Morgan MD, which I don't read--and if they are no longer produced, well, I wouldn't read them if they were, so there! Keep up the good work, and I hope to be able to see one of your shows one day, when I am...