The Swedenborgian Secrets I Promised You
But first, some advice from the road.
Hello, it’s Friday, which is the day I tend to get these letters out to you. I hope you are OK as possible.
I am home now, for a little bit, after the first leg of our Van Freaks Roadshow Tour. My body is all wrecked and exhausted and happy from that zig zag jaunt from Lexington to Chicago to Madison to St Paul to Austin.
I can’t wait to get back out there.
If you were at any of those shows, may I first say: THANK YOU. It was so much fun to see you.
And may I second ask of you this favor: if you also had fun, will you please tell someone you know about it?
We have amazing shows coming up in Atlanta, Durham, Charlottesville, DC, Portland (Maine), and Brooklyn, with all kinds of fun guests and surprises.
BELIEVE ME, no one is more into staying home at night than I am these days. I get it.
But if there’s someone in your life that might enjoy the show, tell them to get in the van please: vanfreaksroadshow.com.
Here are some things I learned on this trip that you may find handy…
The New York style pizza from the famous place in LEXINGTON is only so so, but the meatballs are actually pretty good, especially if you eat them after the show watching the second half of HANNIBAL (the movie) in you hotel room.
If you find yourself in that situation, take my advice and only eat three of the meatballs. That’s plenty. Also, is HANNIBAL actually a good movie? I think maybe it is. Let me know what you think.
In CHICAGO, have lunch with your high school friend Dmitry at the Club Lago. That place is low key real Chicago and wonderful. Get the EXECUTIVE SALAD—the best salad named after a non-existent Steely Dan album.
If you’re not friends with Dmitry, maybe you’ll see him at the Club Lago and get to know him. Otherwise, you can get his latest book, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, in which he finally responds to a bunch of old letters he received.
If you’re driving from Chicago to Madison, don’t make the mistake I did. Take the very-slightly longer route via Milwaukee that goes by Mars Cheese Castle.
The westward route only has gas stations with slot machines and upsetting vodka bottles in the shape of guns.
(Advice continued in the secret room at the top of the stairs)
