Michael: How do you think this is going so far?

Melissa: I don’t know. I’m kind of wondering if we’re posting too often.

Michael: Well, they don’t take very long to read.

     It’s sort of like overhearing a couple arguing, though.

Melissa: Not exactly arguing. Bantering.

Michael: Well, either way, is it even worth writing these?

Melissa: We’re amusing ourselves, if nothing else.

Michael: And our friends.

     And our favorites, too.

Melissa: You can’t exactly say that—"our favorites."

Michael: Why?

Melissa: Because our favorites are the people we’ve marked and—

Michael: I said "our favorites"!

Melissa: Exactly. That’s what I’m saying. Most of the people we’ve favorited don’t even know we exist, so how can we be amusing them?

Michael: Oh . . . I see. I need to say the people who have favorited us.

Melissa: Yes. So what should we talk about this time?

Michael: You mean our subject?

Melissa: Mm-hmm.

(pause)

Michael: What about Eavan Boland?

Melissa: Okay! It’s hard to know where to start. Although, I guess the obvious would be the ordinary.

Michael: Do I put "the ordinary" in quotes?

Melissa: No.

Michael: Okay. Is that all you were going to say?

Melissa: No.

     I mean I’m not sure. I was just getting started.

Michael: I don’t mean the last thing we were going to say about Eavan Boland, I just mean the last thing in that sentence.

Melissa: Got it.

(pause)

Michael: Well?

Melissa: I think it was her appreciation for the ordinary that first drew me to her work. That’s what I was trying to do in my work, too.

     And that’s why we like Mike Leigh movies so much.

Michael: We will definitely have to do one of these on Mike Leigh.

Melissa: Yes, definitely.

     We could talk about him here!

Michael: Literally, we already have.

Melissa: I mean as a subject.

Michael: Our subject is Eavan Boland!

Melissa: Yeah, but like we talked about the Twilight Zone in the context of Alien Nation, we can also talk about about Mike Leigh in the context of Eavan Boland.

Michael: Yes, but in the same way we didn’t get into the Twilight Zone, we’re not going to get into Mike Leigh. It should be a subject of its own.

     We say so little about our subjects as it is.

Melissa: You’re right. Back to Boland.

     Eavan Boland honors the individuals who are outside history.

Michael: The invisible ones.

Melissa: Right, and those are the people we are most interested in.

     Not politicians or celebrities, but authentic, so-called nobodies—like us.

Michael: Blessed are the nobodies.

Melissa: Amen.