For my birthday my brother wrote me this Encyclopedia Brown parody (Google Docs link). Like we usually do, he had me read it aloud. At the end of page 10 I had to stop and laugh for a long time. When I finished Mugs’s description he stopped me and asked how I thought the case was solved, and I said “Either all of those things or none of them.”

People should make each other’s presents more! For his birthday last year I gave Jonathan framed portraits of Calvin and Hobbes that I’d drawn. He gave me a copy of Salinger’s uncollected stories (including Hapworth 16) he’d gotten bound. A few years ago my mom started writing and illustrating storybooks for us as presents. I mean, once were grown, she started doing this. They’re hilarious.

I was born at 4:30 p.m., which I always liked as a kid because it’s when Batman: The Animated Series came on. I guess technically/legally I’m already 27, which is great because I really like this number, and because I’ve been accidentally thinking I was 27 for a while now.