FHS: REID #193
fabulous. hand. summer.
SHORT:
Are people doing okay?
(first male synchronized swimmer was supposed to make the Olympics but didn’t)
MEDIUM:
It’s been a boring time. I’ve been doing a LOT of admin**. They need a class in school that teaches you how to look at your calendar/inbox without wanting to jump outta coconut tree. It should not take such energy to craft and draft emails to the womxn for whom I freelance.
**beautiful nonbinary name
LONG:
On the bright side, my partner’s best friend Lilia1 is in town from London and brought a tub of peanut butter pretzels with her (Snack Of The Week).
We went to an adult gymnastics class together and saw an Orthodox Jewish girl doing roundoff back handsprings in a long-ass skirt. I kept trying to make eye contact with the Orthodox Jewish girl to be like “I am also Jewish/ur amazing/who knew Jews could flip like that?/definitely doesn’t feel natural/I think ur setting some sort of Guinness record”, but ultimately, she didn’t care about me2.
What else?
I saw two old guys getting breakfast this morning. Nuthin’ better.
We dragged Lilia to a trans comedy show where 80 trans comics each performed 60 seconds of material. 3 of the comics, including myself, showed up in Hooters t-shirts (unplanned, humiliating, everything’s derivative, there’re only 7 stories). Lilia learned a lot about the community (and had to Google “SuperWhoLock” after, god bless her).
I’m actually quite worked up about the male synchronized swimmer not making the Olympic team, by the way.
I know I mentioned it off-hand at the top of the newsletter, but I was really quite invested in his success. JUSTICE FOR BILL.
To honor him this evening, I revisited this SNL sketch. Watch and comment below with ur fave line, mine’s “look at the fish going by” (& Martin Short’s “deck work”).
It’s FABULOUS HAND SUMMER, after all.
And who better embodies the fabulous hand than this guy??!!!
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Sincerely,
Reid Pope
Bonus Jonas Zone:
beautiful woman featured in header image
I finally spoke to her, asking if I could move a mat she’d placed on top of the foam pit, and she yelled “WHAT?” and I repeated the question, flustered, and then she said “HUH!?, and I repeated it again, and then she stormed off toward the balance beams…
Peanut butter pretzels got me through middle school. And high school. And college. In fact, where are my peanut butter pretzels?