A word of warning

Dear Emi:

Do not under any circumstances watch Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father as your heart will instantly break and you will never be okay again.


The only people who should watch it are:

1. People who want to suffer. (Akin to listening to Elliot Smith on the night of getting dumped by someone you love dearly.)
2. People who can turn their souls off on command.
3. People who aren't worried about their figures and feel okay about comfort eating entire containers of pomegranate chocolate chip ice cream at 12:45 since the world is broken, cannot be fixed and ice cream is the closest thing that approximates the now-gone-feeling-of-okay that was there before you had watched this movie.
4. People who need an I'm-dating-a-crazy-person-and-need-to-be-stopped-because-that-shit-is-real interventions.

Permanently-scarred-by-Dear-Zachary,
Lisa

Idiotic

Dear Emi:

I bought a fancy new digital camera on Black Friday. Of course, I ripped it out of the box and started taking pictures immediately--many of them to show to you! I photographed my new short hair and the lobster boiling incident and my mother trying to reclaim her youth at Forever 21!

Unfortunately, at the same time that I discovered my AMAZING and HILARIOUS photo taking skills (and newfound PHOTOGENIC-NESS!!!)... I lost the camera cord to my fancy new device.

This makes me: amazing, hilarious and photogenic, which is all nullified by the fact that I am an ASSHOLE.

Sigh,
Lisa

Reason #45691 that Lisa is lame.

Dear Emi:

I am the worst letter writer ever.

Winter ate me up!
The dog stole my will to blog!
Netflix Instant takes up all my time!
The new velour is too comfortable and I fall right to sleep!
I'm reading a mystery novel and I can't put it down!

Well, maybe not all that. But I'm back! More to come.

xo,
Lisa

Big things.

Dear Emi:



A matching velour track suit changes everything.

xo,
Lisa

Dilemma.

Dear Emi:

Is this man beautiful?



Or kinda fugly?

I can't tell. Please help.

//Lisa

A memory book.

Dear Emi:

This was my favorite man.

He collected peoples stories. I think that everyone who reads this should document their feelings about something in their life (in a paragraph or three). It should be something that is tethered to this election, economy or time in the world. Send them to me. I'll post them here.

RIP Studs Terkel. I wish he could have told the story of this election.

From New York,
Lisa

Yes we will.

Dear Emi:



If this happens, I'm entirely confused about how one is suppose to celebrate this. Dinner party? Parade? Buck naked running down Fifth Avenue? Polar bear swimming? Key party?