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Letter #127: The Tyrant

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Good morning, Erin. To help resolve a minor computer issue at work, someone needed to take a picture of what was displayed on my screen—but he ran into trouble because the camera wouldn’t focus on the screen but, instead, the little picture of V that you gave me, because the camera recognized it as a human face and, therefore, what it was most likely supposed to focus on.  Which made me laugh, of course, but also made me go, “Aww, I miss Erin.” That said, the previous day, I stopped halfway through writing an email, leaned back in my chair, and sighed, “Aww, I miss Erin,” so it’s not like I needed much of a prompt.  [ restarts “Erin Does Singing” playlist ] Someone else I miss is Good Boy—but now I miss him less, because he was in a thing! A weird, four-episode thing, but still a thing! And that’s something to celebrate.  But do I mean celebrate in principle or in actuality ? Well, I suppose that’s why we’re here. So, if you’re ready to unleash The Tyrant …then, uh…okay,...

Letter #126: Monchouchou Global House

Good morning, Erin. Y’know, YouTube, The Frog only came out on Friday—and you’ve been posting an awful lot of spoiler-y clips since then, as though you think I dropped everything going on in my life just to binge the whole thing. Well, guess what? I haven't watched it, yet. So, I dunno, maybe just go back to showing adorable clips from the new Jung So-min show that’s airing every week. Or do that thing where you get the cast to play that shouty telephone game where everyone’s in headphones. Anything that isn’t a steady drip of all the essential plot points of the series. Or, at the very least, maybe don’t put the spoiler IN THE NAME OF THE CLIP, hm? Thanks. Really appreciate it.  Sigh . But speaking of YouTube—did you know I was working on a web series letter?  …by which I mean I planned to watch a slew of web series on YouTube and write up another “medley” letter but got distracted with my backlog of videos from my favorite dating show girls. Which, yes, was silly of me, sin...

Letter #125: Weki Meki, Mohae?

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Good morning, Erin. Sorry for the delay, seonbae —so much ridiculous real-life stuff to deal with. It’s like the universe doesn’t know my list of priorities starts with “letters to Erin” and that there’s a sizable gap before we hit the second item.  Ugh . Such a hassle. But here we are, at long last: the Weki Meki letter—or, at least, the Weki Meki, Mohae? letter, which is ostensibly about my time with the group’s relatively short reality show following them around for the couple of months surrounding the promotion for their second EP, Lucky , but which is also going to serve as memorial to the now-disbanded love of my (very, very brief) k-pop life.  They deserved better. But what we did get was wonderful.  And now, I will share that with you. In great detail.  …okay, in some detail. I won’t make you sit through all 30 pages of notes.  Wait, unless I…no, never mind—I won’t. Promise. … Yes, promise. So, without further ado: “Let’s get crazy!” (...which is the i...