Eulogy: Volume 1, the first volume of a double album I recorded in Nashville last year, was released two weeks ago. I'm all kinds of proud of it. Please give it a spin wherever you spin music these days:
Bob Saget was the older wiser ‘me' for nine years on How I Met Your Mother. He was the kindest, loveliest, funniest, most supportive man. The easiest person to be around. A mensch among mensches. 1/7
There are people who leave the earth and you’re haunted by all the things you didn’t tell them, all the love that was unexpressed. Luckily that wasn’t the case with Bob. We adored each other and we told each other. 6/7
This man that I’d delighted in seeing on TV for years cheering me on, letting me know I had a right to be there and playing that character... I can’t overstate how meaningful his words were. (He also, true to form, told me jokes that I cannot tell here or in polite company.) 3/7
I had so much imposter syndrome when HIMYM started, thought I’d be found out, kicked off set & sent home. When I'd run into Bob on the Fox lot in those early days he'd gush over my performance & tell me how he was studying me to make sure his vocal performance felt right. 2/7
Bob loved his daughters so much. He loved making people laugh. He never missed a birthday text. He raised millions of dollars for scleroderma research. He proved you could be funny and successful and kind. 5/7
We had a very special bond from Day 1, were never out of touch for long. We found a way to grab dinner once a year, even after HIMYM wrapped. We went to see each other in our Broadway plays. We talked a lot about how to live a meaningful life amidst all the chaos. 4/7
I’m noticing the older I get I feel super meh about culturally mandated events like “New Year’s Eve” and “birthdays” (my own) and increasingly inspired by more frequently occurring things like “mornings” and “good conversations.”
The reason wearing masks has become politicized is because one party believes in science and the other believes in a lying, grifting, conspiracy theorist with laughably retrograde ideas about masculinity.
My suspicion is he would see it, love it bordering on obsession (memorize every song, etc) but get hung up on one historical inaccuracy that he wouldn't be able to shut up about.
@JoshRadnor
I have a question that will resolve something very important to me, would Ted Mosby see the Hamilton musical? If he would see it or saw it, what did he think? or what he would think? Thank you!
A few words about Nick Cordero who died of COVID yesterday... I fucking loved this guy. A force on stage and a delight off. We worked together in 2018 in NY & DC doing Little Shop of Horrors and got close in that shot-out-of-a-cannon way that only theater people understand. 1/7
I keep thinking about a woman in an article I read who told herself she couldn't check Instagram unless she'd read 30 minutes from an actual book. She ended up reading 55 books in a year.
He's a decent man running against an indecent man
He’s a kind man running against a cruel man
He’s an honest man running against a con man
#bidenisbest
5 jobs I've had
1) Love-addicted architect
2) Cocaine-addicted Nazi hunting movie star
3) Morphine-addicted Civil War surgeon
4) College admissions officer
5) Public school drama teacher
I loathe Trump. Cannot wait to see him go. But my vote for
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
is not an anti-Trump vote. I am actively excited for a Biden/Harris administration.
THREAD:
"Anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
the weirdest thing about HIMYM is the finale when lily does a monologue about how much emotional endurance & bravery
@JoshRadnor
has but really if you looked at it on paper what it would read is, guy dates a large number of cool gorgeous women, then marries one
Absurd to think of Joe Biden as anything other than a good and decent man. But if you somehow view this election as a choice between the lesser of two evils... CHOOSE LESS EVIL!!