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l, I have the non-standard mug. I know you're interested in all things coffee because my kitchen was being worked on yesterday, and I cleverly took everything that I would need out of the kitchen and put it in a different room so that while the kitchen was being worked on and I didn't have access to it because the floor was being worked on, I would have everything I needed. And the one thing I for…

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boop, you're in and out. It's like you weren't ever there. But if you read them all at once, you just sort of live in them for a while. You will cry. I mean you will cry laughing until I was feeling like something was going to give out in my actual guts. I can't recommend it enough. Do yourself a favor. Just spend 10 minutes. That's all I'm asking. If you don't cry, I will be very surprised. Cry laughing.

That is, speaking of things to laugh at, I was reading an article I think it was in BuzzFeed in which women were saying what they also saw in Pete Davidson. You know Pete Davidson has been dating a bunch of A-list celebrity women that you would say to yourself, or at least men tend to say this, how does he get all these women, right? And so women were asked what they saw in him, and I love some of the answers. For example, he's such a mess. I mean I'm paraphrasing the answers, so this is my words, but this idea that he's such a mess that you're pretty sure he won't judge you. What do you think of that? He's such a basket case, which you know he's very overt about, very transparent. He'll tell you what a basket case he is and has been, and that it makes you comfortable around him. True, I think so. I think you're more comfortable around people who clearly have more problems than you do. That's one thing.

Now he's also tall, he's successful, he's funny, you know he's getting rich, which didn't matter to the specific women he was with, but you know you can see all those things as well. But here's the funniest part. Somebody in one, it was a tweet that was part of the article, somebody described Pete Davidson as looking like a wet cigarette. That's good. I mean that's really good. I've seen people describe me as looking like a thumb, and you know I laugh at that too. So I don't want to make fun of people's looks. I don't generally do that. But when somebody makes a spot-on kind of an epithet, a wet cigarette, I don't think that could be any better, could it? I mean just in terms of cruel descriptions of people, I've been on the receiving end of lots of cruel descriptions, and I can tell you that when they're done well they're actually just hilarious even if it's about you. So I'd like to think that he would laugh at that too because it's just so clever.

So I think that women know that he's not going to think he's better than them. And somebody else said he's a nice guy but he's sort of confident in who he is. I think have you ever heard the phrase people are comfortable in their own skin? In other words it doesn't matter who you are but are you comfortable being that person? And if you are, other people are comfortable around you. Now I'm not sure that describes Pete Davidson because I would require reading his mind and we c

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an't do that. But I would say it looks like that. You know from the outside it looks like he's someone who's completely confident that he is just him and he's not anybody else. He's not trying to be. So the fact that he's putting no effort into trying to look like somebody else, I think that gives him a little credit, doesn't it? I think he's likable. I mean you know I like everybody with a sense…

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