From: Hilarie Link <hilarie3@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

me: yo yo!
Hilarie: hi
me: what's new with you?
Hilarie: not much
Hilarie: work
Hilarie: and spending time with Tony, my boyfriend
Hilarie: how are you?
Hilarie: whats new?
me: been in a big ol' INTERNET WAR with a bunch of douchy conservative pundits
me: mainly this one guy, Robert Stacy McCain, who co-wrote a book with Palin's biographer, and whom I'm trying to expose as a neo-Nazi
me: been going on for a couple weeks now but it should be almost over
Hilarie: nice
Hilarie: sounds fun
me: check this out when you have a moment, it's hilarious
me: http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2009/10/24/in-which-i-try-my-hand-at-cartooning-and-piss-off-this-fellow/
me: plus it got me linked to by a bunch of people
me: also, I'm now friends with Charles Johnson, the guy who broke the Rathergate story
me: because we have the same enemies
Hilarie: nice
me: he was the big king of the conservative bloggers until he started pointing out all the racism on the right and now they all hate him
me: but he was never really conservative in the first place
me: and he's really a great guy, it turns out
me: he's my new father figure
me: hooray!
Hilarie: thats good
Hilarie: mentors are good
me: so anything else new?
Hilarie: nothing really
Hilarie: just representing DHL and eHarmony
Hilarie: suing an egg farm in California for my pro bono
me: lol wut?
Hilarie: yeah Humane Society is my client
Hilarie: and some poor people
Hilarie: its like Erin Brokavich
Hilarie: they pollute and hurt chickens
Hilarie: so we sue them
me: very well
me: still liking LA?
Hilarie: http://www.hsus.org/farm/news/ournews/downwind_of_the_factory_farm_092909.html
Hilarie: yes its nice
Hilarie: i think i will probably marry my boyfriend and have kids here
Hilarie: im happy :)
me: just like ERin Brokavich!
me: wait, no
me: I didn't see it
me: anyway, glad it all worked out
me: you were all stressed and unhappy like a year ago
me: or less
Hilarie: thats true
Hilarie: too many life changes at once
Hilarie: and taking the bar sucks
Hilarie: and starting my job sucked
Hilarie: but now im all used to everything
Hilarie: its not as bad
me: so I was right
me: again
Hilarie: ha
me: like always
Hilarie: of course
Hilarie: so what else is new?
me: just spending my days being right about stuff
Hilarie: i hear dryden is out hear but i havent seen her
me: haven't talked to her for years and years
Hilarie: i hear brice joined the military to be able to be gay
me: very well
me: I talked to Lauren Allison briefly
me: about a week back
Hilarie: hows she
me: fine, doing usual stuff, can't even remember what it was
Hilarie: ya
Hilarie: hows caleb
me: good, he moved back to Texas
me: to try to get better jobs
Hilarie: so who do you live with then
me: my friend Andrew Straub, who's a fairly wild and intelligent fellow who's done some random TV and b-movie writing and acting and all sort of other weird thngs
me: plus this girl from Georgia is moving in with us in a week
me: she's a freelance writer, too
me: so that'll be fun
Hilarie: nice
me: oh, and this fellow is threatening to sue me now
Hilarie: who
Hilarie: and why
me: this other conservative blogger
me: it's all in that link I sent you
me: toward the bottom
me: he has a shaky conception of parody, fair use, and other such things, as you'll see
Hilarie: oh IP stuff
Hilarie: thats annoying
me: not really
me: it's helpful
me: I've gotten a lot of juice out of this guy
Hilarie: send him a thank you gift basket
me: I've got something better
Hilarie: whats that
me: sorry, got a phone call
Hilarie: its ok
me: I was just going to make fun of him one more time and then ignore him until he goes away
me: nothing brilliant or sinister or anything like that
Hilarie: -)
me: I'm really just trying to get this McCain fellow taken care of