Happy Thanksgiving! We brought blankets!

This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful* for our production editor Tim Boswell, who seemed very weary in the office today.  Last week, faced with the fact that the ALR reading for that night was going to be all fiction readers due to a scheduling snafu (he makes the schedule so blame him), and knowing that his slot was right in the middle of that reading when the audience's good will and attention spans would both be waning, he did what any true American hero would do: he wrote a choose-your-own-adventure dinner theater piece called The Crying of a Lot of 49 Year Olds.  We all got parts.  We got to do voices.  Some of us realized halfway through that we, specifically, were probably being mocked, but we were having so much fun that we didn't care.  It was pretty great, and I dare each and every one of you to do something half as ridiculous the next time you give a reading.  We all take ourselves far too seriously.


*I am also thankful for a day of reading books and playing fallout without feeling terribly guilty afterwards.  It's exceedingly rare.