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Thanks so much! This validates the validity of my last 4 days of nothingness!!!! We all need a break!!

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Substitute Word Wipe for Scrabble and Apple TV for poker, we are sloth twins; I find this a huge relief and inspiration. Let’s trade tea recommendations sometime. :)

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I’m feeling almost guilty of sloth but I’m fully committed to being retired at age 80. Made it just in time too as the GOP wants to raise the retirement age so that the tax breaks to the rich can remain an the WORKING CLASS can keep paying for all the wars, foreign aid and useless projects like building a wall between the US and Mexico and building billion dollar destroyers that don’t work as promised.

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This is bargain basement philosophy that is highly relevant to me at the moment (see prior comment on the Saul column). The below are so true. I’ll never get to know you, but how do you know me so well?

But the longer I live the more convinced I become that doing little-to-nothing might actually be the better way to get through life. Or, let me reframe that: doing little of what you don’t want to do or have a higher reason to do.

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Hey why are you culturally appropriating my Calvinist guilt? I thought Jews have their own separate but equal guilt, like the Catholics. Or is guilt a spectrum, and if so, which ones are at the ends?

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The important question here is, how are you pronouncing “sloth”? American or British pronunciation? One obviously connotes greater mental fitness.

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I will never know you -but have a surprising amount of similarities to your brain and whats going on. If you’re my lost brother, I need to manage my subscription better.

Why are the tennis courts mating grounds? Like taking your date for a portrait sitting.

You’re not setting yourself up very well for after-chat either. There’s perhaps a two minute takeaway from a tennis match. It’s very odd.

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I was borderline considering slothing today, and you might just have pushed me over the edge... 🥱

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For someone whose brain isn’t working you write so well. And I think as a former New Yorker with 45 years in Atlanta, summer in the South is the perfect environment for slothfulness.

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Three things:

1. Do continue changing those diapers. Besides Smelly Butt, the end result--loud, painful screaming, not to mention your child not liking it--will make you think maybe eating sloth is a good thing.

2. Please. Do not eat sloth.

3. Please. Take a nap. You deserve it.

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(begins working on a "SLOTH! It's what's for dinner." t-shirt design...)

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