Hey, Friends.
How’s it going? I’m okay. A little brittle minded, dry. Could use a meeting. That would probably help out. I’m a little snappy.
The rapidly menacing momentum of the slide into actual bona fide authoritarianism here in America is hard to manage on a day to day basis. Feeling helpless in the face of it is awful. I guess that’s what happens in countries where this happens. The brain exhausts, fear takes over and people learn how to rationalize what is happening if they aren’t immediately threatened. Here, I think most people don’t know what the word means or implies and/or how it could possibly affect them. That’s terrifying. It might take a generation for people here to know it happened and that their freedom is totally limited and that many people they know have disappeared either literally or emotionally. Good times.
I want to give credit where credit is due and this is for a company that actually gave me credit—like refund credit. I know. I’ll explain. I have two cats on a kidney health diet now and I finally got them eating the same food. I had two cases of the food they won’t eat leftover so I called Chewy.com, which is where I buy my food and litter, to see if I could exchange it for the food they do eat. They said they don’t exchange food but they would give me the refund credit and I should donate the food to a shelter. That is just beautiful. What an amazing thing to suggest and do as a company. I felt bad for even asking for the refund. I'm going to donate a lot of stuff. I get a lot of pet related stuff sent to me that I just don’t use. I’m packing it all up and bringing it to a shelter type place when I figure out which one. I’ll probably take it over to Santé D’Or in Los Feliz if they’ll take it.
I talk to Terry Crews a few weeks ago about his life and his odd path to a career in show business. You'll hear that today. On Thursday I talk to my comedian friend, Cash Cab’s Ben Bailey about all the stuff. Including aquariums. A lot of aquarium talk. Great talks.
Enjoy!
Love,
Maron