From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wilds of Connecticut, this is obscure season

for an American tragedy. I'm your host, your friend, your ear lover, and literary mansplainer

in chief, Michael Ian Black, the cold spell that has gripped.

Much of the nation continues, although I am told it is lifting in the coming days.

I have been parading around the mid-century masterpiece in Malongjohns. For Christmas, Martha bought me a full set of

long johns. I guess I've had them before, you know, but this winter they've become highly

necessary and quite comfortable. They were recommended by somebody on my substack of all things.

I had written a piece about how I'm just always cold.

And then somebody said, well, why don't you put on some long johns? And Martha read that comment

and thought to herself, well, that'd make a fine Christmas gift for my Jew husband. And in fact,

it's exactly what it has been. fine I would say a better than cromulent Christmas present of course you know you wear them enough days in a row

you got to wash them and then you don't have long johns but if the weather warms a little

bit then then I guess I won't I won't need them at all. What else is going on with me? Not too much. The show continues. I just recorded one, two, three, four or five episodes of some cartoon that I'm doing. And I guess it's not public, so I'm going to tell you what the name of the cartoon is. I mean, I don't, maybe they don't care.

I don't know.

I have no idea if they care.

Well, and nobody listens to this podcast, so I guess I'll just tell you.

It's called Creature Commandos' second season.

And I'm playing my DC universe character of Clevis Thornweight, the priggish news announcer. I recorded five

episodes of that today, and I was surprised to discover that the character of Clevis Thornweight

had considerably more to do than I was anticipating, which thus required me to do some acting.

And, well, I'm not very good at that.

You know, I'm just not that good at it.

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