What made you smile today? A bookcase and Lovecraft.

Reported by Maceo, Denver, 2 min, filmed 30 March 2026

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The question of the week, put to a reader in Denver: what is something that made you smile today? “I built a bookcase today and organized all my books, which is nice, including my apartment.” He reads history, “and then also like horror stories, kind of anthologies.” His author: “H.P. Lovecraft is one of them. That’s kind of a cliche.”

Anthologies, Maceo offers, “are like the whole archive of a subject, you know, that’s like what an anthology is.” He used to write, “more than now,” and has nowhere yet to send people, so Maceo makes the offer anyway: “if there was, I want you to be able to plug yourself since you were generous.” Maceo’s last question is the one the archive asks everyone: if you could ask people around the world one question next week, what would it be? His answer: “just like how you can make somebody’s day a little better, maybe.”

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0:00A: Oh yeah.

0:00Maceo: So what’s up? I’m Maceo, and this is for We Them Media and poidh. So what’s something that made you smile today?

0:05A: I built a bookcase today and organized all my books, which is nice, including my apartment.

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0:16Maceo: What do you like to read?

0:17A: Lots of things. I like history a lot, and then also like horror stories, kind of anthologies, things like that.

0:28Maceo: Anthologies, you’re like a literary fanatic, you’re like a big reader, anthologies are like the whole archive of a subject, you know, that’s like what an anthology is Yeah That’s cool Yeah You have like a subject matter in particular you’re a big fan of? Or like fascinated by?

0:43A: Ancient history I like a lot And then, like I said, like horror stories as well

0:51Maceo: Okay, and who’s your favorite horror story author? Like who’s the people you’d be checking out if they’re not hip?

0:57A: H.P. Lovecraft is one of them. That’s kind of a cliche.

1:02Maceo: Are you a writer?

1:03A: Sometimes. Used to be more than now.

1:08Maceo: Is there a place people can check out your writing?

1:10A: Not right now. Not right now.

1:12Maceo: That’s okay. Well, if there was, I want you to be able to plug yourself since you were generous and not to speak.

1:17A: All right. Hell yeah.

1:17Maceo: And then my last question is, if you could ask people around the world one question next week, what would you want to ask people?

1:24A: Next week, I don’t know, just like how you can make somebody’s day a little better, maybe.

1:32Maceo: Oh yeah.

That was the whole tape.

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