Situation Normal
Michael EstrinStories for people who enjoy humor with a side of humanity and a dash of insight
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2025 for the Wins
If you’re new to Situation Normal, welcome to this newsletter’s (mostly) annual tradition of celebrating wins. We celebrated our wins in 2020 — a year built for losing, if ever there was one. We did it the following year, too. I think we sk...
Good guy with a gun
A friend recently told me he stopped following the news. “I realized that it just made me anxious and angry, partly because that’s what it’s designed to do, I guess, but also because it’s usually stuff I can’t do anything about.” He was tal...
The Floating Head Phenomenon
I was in New York City last week for work. Before I left Los Angeles, my boss asked if I was “freakishly tall,” or “abnormally short”? Her question was odd, but not unreasonable. Although we’d worked together for eighteen months, we’d never...
Walking in the shadow of the AI apocalypse
The other day my neighbor, Arthur, asked if I was still a writer. When I’m in a sour mood, questions like that can get under my skin. Nobody asks plumbers if they’re still plumbers, or dentists if they’re still dentists, or blackjack dealer...
Turns Out, I'm Antifa
I recently learned that I’m part of Antifa. Transportation Secretary and former Real World / Road Rules star Sean Duffy tipped me off. “The No Kings protest [is] really frustrating,” Duffy told Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business. “I mean, this...
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