Mitchell Nobis laughed too. How could you not? You’d laugh, wouldn’t you? Mitch is pretty sure one of the biggest ailments we have now is a lack of laughter, though that’s understandable given, you know, everything. But still, can you imagine falling asleep in a meeting or at a Knicks game and not laughing at yourself? Sweet Jiminy, that’d be nuts. Mitch laughs at himself multiple times per day. Hell, he stumbled while walking the dog the other day when he kinda stepped weird, and he laughed so loud at himself that it scared the dog. She’s fine. Mitch remembers watching Cheers and M*A*S*H with his parents and brother when he was a kid, and man did they all laugh. They stopped once on a family vacation because it was raining, so they went to the movies. This is how Mitch saw Police Academy, and to this day he remembers his dad’s guffaws in that theater. He grew up on a farm, so vacations were rare, meaning maybe it wasn’t a vacation. Maybe it was just raining so they went to the movies in Lansing. Mitch doesn’t really recall, but he’s happy Sir David Attenborough teaches us about natural life cycles and things like that. Mitch is glad his parents met. He’s happy they, um, y’know, made it so he’s here? Let’s put it that way. He’s happy to be here. Despite the world’s insane flaws and life’s immeasurable complications, he’s happy to be here, at least. He’s happy you’re here too. He hopes you laugh today and thinks it’s even better if you laugh at yourself. We’re just a bunch of goofy mammals, after all. You can find more from Mitch at mitchnobis.com or @MitchNobis on Bluesky, and you can get his books The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees (2024) and Beginning to Sense (forthcoming) at matchfactoryeditions.com/.