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Dear Pepper: I’d Rather Be Drawing

How dare life require so much of you, when what you were born to do is sit in a corner of the room and watch and draw?
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The Revised Laws of Robotics

A robot must not hurt another robot, outside of some sort of cool sporting event you can place bets on.
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Some Funny Things About Getting Old

Everything’s shot. Why not laugh about it?
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Why I’m Actually Inviting You to My Party

This won’t be fun, but it will be expensive.
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The Worst City to Find Love Is Wherever You, Yes You, Live

Several factors were examined to determine that you are the epicenter of a phenomenon that swallows up the possibility of romantic love like a black hole sucking in light.
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“Can’t we all sit around the same campfire?”
Cartoon by Drew Dernavich

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I will be out of the office beginning Friday, January 25th, at 1:15 (P.S.T.), and will return on Monday, February 4th, at 3:47 (Hawaiian-Aleutian Standard Time).
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I’m Working from Work Today

I may be a tad slow getting back to you today—my fingers are so cold from these frigid office temperatures that it takes me twice as long to type everything.
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O.O.O. Messages for Everyday Life

I am currently on leave from human interaction, after receiving a TikTok comment from a stranger who called my forehead a “fivehead.”
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Existential Office E-Mails

“Morning, Rob. Hope your weekend was an effective numbing agent against the spiritual oppression that is your every waking work hour!”

Comics

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Showdown in the Oval

Donald keeps his eyes on the prize.
Sketchpad

“And Just Like That . . . ,” the Lost Season

Plotlines we’ll never see: Carrie grapples with shoe tariffs, and Miranda moves into the sewers.
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America!: Gardening with Stephen Miller

Those filthy, degenerate daisies have grown back.
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Skateboarding Into Middle Age

As I approach forty, I have fewer and fewer memories of being a child. It is enough that the body remembers.

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When I’m Ninety-five

Woke up, got out of bed / So glad I wasn’t dead.
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Cover Letter for a Job I Don’t Want but Will Be Offended Not to Get

My résumé reflects a pattern of, let’s call it, erratic brilliance punctuated by long stretches of disillusionment, which I’ve cleverly framed as “consulting.”
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A Vaccination Parable

You’ve got to read the literature!
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Date Ideas for Couples in Long-Term Relationships

Go about your normal evening, but with a candle lit.
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F.A.Q.s About the W.N.B.A.

As a man, I’ve noticed that some of the women in the W.N.B.A. are getting a lot of attention. But the thing is, I want attention.
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“Emma” Unrated

In which Jane Austen’s Miss Emma Woodhouse is bestirred by “Jackass” ’s Mr. Knoxville upon his presentation of a “Fire-Hose Rodeo.”
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Why I Left the City and Moved My Family Into an Inflatable Bounce House

Buy a house in this market? Do I look like a complete chucklehead?
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It’s Time to Check In for Your D.E. Eye Exam

This vision test is far from routine—don’t forget that racism starts in the retinas.
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Super-Fun Romantic Sexy Beach Read

A little Proust, a little cancer, but in a light and sexy way. Isn’t melancholy the new quirky?
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The Aging Millennial’s Guide to Summer

Read an autofiction novel written by someone your age about how they’re way too old to be this pathetic and single.