I got home tonight from work and there was a package from Amazon waiting for me.  And it was this! The new book about the history of MTV with a funny note that said, “Martha Quinn came to me in a dream and told me to buy you this book.”  (I guess this wish list I made on Amazon was see-able. I made it for me to remember what I want to get Which now I will make it not see-able because I’m embarrassed….In case you’re like…why does someone have your address and that makes you lose focus…)

Anyway the point is this - and I’m sure someone who feels like being a dick will alert Humblebrag or something but every once in a while I get a gift from someone I don’t know.  And it’s the most touching thing in the world.  Somebody that follows me on Twitter sent me the Smiths box set on my birthday this year.  I’ve had people send me things like a vintage Three’s Company belt buckle and have made me things like a Photoshopped picture of me with The Golden Girls, an edible arrangement, etc.  It’s all stuff that is so specific to me, stuff I’ve mentioned I liked and people remembered and that’s what’s so fucking cool. People I don’t know have shopped better for me than people who do know me. (I’ll deal with those assholes in another blog.)

I just wanted to say a blanket thank you to anyone who takes time to do nice things like that. I never feel like “Oh, what a weirdo.” And I never feel like, “Yeah, people SHOULD send me shit.”  There’s something so cool about coming home to something and realizing, “Hey, when I didn’t know it, someone was thinking of me and buying a thing and it was being mailed to me.” That’s some random act of kindness mojo!

It also validates that the internet can be a really cool thing that brings people with similar interests together and not just a place for comment flame wars and people saying, “You suck.” Anyway, the fact that anyone even reads anything I’d write or come to a show blows me away enough and the extra kindness of sending me a gift makes me feel like I’m gonna cry. (That sounds like such an asshole faux-humility thing to say but I mean it. I’ve been doing stand-up for almost 15 years which isn’t that long but most of those years not one person gave a fuck what I was saying and so I really was conditioned to feel that way. I know plenty of people still don’t give a fuck and that’s cool too.)

Anyway - I just want to say THANKS INTERNET FRIENDS!