From: Mark Cohen <mark.simon.cohen@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

Mark: on washington square
Mark: i don't suppose you'd want to come hear leftists argue about whether obama's candidacy is a real part of "the struggles"
Mark: downtown
me: where?
me: It's, like, just stop and give up
me: Democratic Socialists of America
me: I'm kind of surprised these people still exist
Mark: i was kind of thinking there might be an anthropological interest
me: I'd kind of like to go do an article on it
me: I might be able to make it but my dad's in town so I might be having a decidedly non-leftist dinner with him, but I'll give you a call around then
me: what time?
Mark: hold on
Mark: but, yes, i am somewhat taken aback
Mark: they're nice people
me: wow
Mark: one of them, semi-ironically i think (hope) refers to his "comrades"
me: and I say that as an officer in an atheist advocacy organization
Mark: the "radical film and lecture series" people are actually my classmates at nyu soc