People often can’t believe I ate the whole thing, but that’s not important right now. Other people often don’t believe me when I say that I pretty much always start writing the Goldberg File the morning it’s due. Well, I had an idea. As part of the big rollout of NRPlus I’m supposed to do a Facebook post for just NRPlussers (NRPlussites? NRPlusserians?).


Happy to do that — and I will, oh yes, I will — but I had another idea. This week, you NRPlussophiles can request what the G-File topic — or topics — will be right before the dough goes in the oven, as it were.

If you’re an NRPlus member, go to the NRPlus page at Facebook and offer your suggestion or suggestions for what I should write about. You’ll also receive an email later today with a link to a Google Form if you’re not on Facebook. I can’t promise to take up every request, but I’ll do my best to field at least a few (and credit the requester by name). It’s not an “Ask Me Anything” thing. It’s a request line. You can just say “Crop Rotation in the 14th century!” or “Write about how people named Todd should have their citizenship revoked.” Anything (potentially) goes. And if there’s a lot of stuff still left over, I’ll head over to the page and chat about all that later today.

When I wake up tomorrow, I’ll check out the requests and start stringing letters together to form word-type things.


Also, if you haven’t signed up for NRPlus yet, this is a great reason to. Or maybe it’s a terrible reason to. But, fortunately, there are plenty of other great reasons to sign up for NRPlus. Fewer ads, more direct content with your favorite NR writers, more avenues to complain about how Lowry says “Emmm Beeee Deee” on the Editors podcast, etc.