REID #62

Reid Pope

Dec 07, 2021

SHORT:

Well. I have a cold. Do we think it’s from:

Performing stand-up for Jews at a Hanukkah party in the rain?
Performing stand-up for Jews at a Hanukkah party in the rain and then also having 6 free vodka sodas at the party?
Just… life! ?

MEDIUM:

For the record, I’m extremely thankful for getting to perform standup for The Jews.

The-Fergalicious-Rabbi-who-booked-me’s boyfriend reads this newsletter, so I just want to make that clear!

(The Rabbi’s Fergalicious because he “makes [all] the boys [in Park Slope] go crazy” etc. etc.)

It was a great night.

Everyone was drunk (insert Festival Of Lightweights joke)

I spun out like a freaky little dreidel onstage and then talked to the Rabbi and boyfriend about ~deep things~ like how he and my friend once talked on Grindr and whether or not he knows my therapist (he does).

The only thing I’m mad about is that I forgot to do a bunch of my Holocaust jokes.

LONG:

I’ve been feeling incredibly stupid lately. At school. At home. Really any time I open my mouth.

Despite trying my best, I’m not a man of many references. I haven’t read enough stuff, watched enough stuff, and sometimes have a hard time understanding things like “Dialectic” lol.

And I quite simply don't have the energy to become that kind of dude.

Instead, I tell myself that people who cling to rhetoric and intellectuality are scared of recognizing and sitting with base, visceral, somatic, and dumb simple feelings that actually make the world go round and the fact that I ~kind of always feel like I’m going to cry~ is actually a sign of brilliance.

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I also could be sick because I walked 45 minutes in the freezing cold to a party where my old roommates walked in and everyone freaked out because of how tall they are.

In my next life, I would love to be a boy who works at SNL who people freak out about being way taller in person.

Just kidding actually. I typed that and then read it back and then was like, wait no, I don’t want that to be my next life.

I think I’ll live in the country and make cinnamon rolls and not even know that SNL is.

Sort of heavenly.

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Should I sue the creators of Sex Lives Of College Girls for cutting away on the lesbian sex scenes but showing all the other straight ones in great detail?

Or should I just chill out and be laid-back?

I always think I’m a laid-back person and then it rains and I have to walk one block to my coffee shop and on the way I’m threatening to “bomb the sky”.

It is interesting how nobody’s doing well these days………

Someone give me a million dollars to do more research on this………

When I spend all day losing my mind because of the silly geese in my life but then land safely in bed? I call that “Doing A Sully”.

And I’ve been doing it a lot lately.

Give me a key to the city!!!

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Did this give you all that you needed?

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Will it help if I add that my therapist and the Fergalicious Rabbi go to the competing young hip Jewish gay synagogues in Brooklyn so, obviously I’m drafting up a Romeo and Juliet adaptation re: that.

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C u next Tuesday.