| Subject: Chat with samantha.sterling@gmail.com |
| From: "samantha.sterling@gmail.com" <samantha.sterling@gmail.com> |
1:08 PM samantha.sterling: congrats on hastings. that's a big score
1:15 PM me: yep indeed, he's pretty enthusiastic about it, too
1:16 PM KID'S GOT MOXY
1:17 PM samantha.sterling: if you could get anyone, who would it be?
1:18 PM me: Glenn Greenwald
in fact, just left him a message last night
1:19 PM samantha.sterling: who's that?
1:20 PM me: he's a civil liberties litigator up here who's become a very prominent blogger and picked up by Salon
actually, he wrote about Wikileaks eventually
samantha.sterling: ah
do you think he'll return your message?
1:25 PM me: not sure, I e-mailed him a couple of weeks back but never heard from him, though could be case of cluttered inbox
if I did, I'd be surprised
1:26 PM pulled another all-nighter last night to get a bunch of stuff done
also
my roommate
on saturday
went out with her visiting brother and one of our other friends to see Tracy Morgan
1:27 PM samantha.sterling: did she like the show?
me: first Morgan makes a bunch of anti-gay jokes and roommate boos him
samantha.sterling: guess not
me: then afterwards she meets his friend, Dot-Com, who apparently is on the show 30 Rock
1:28 PM who falls for my roommate and has his assistant get her from the bathroom
samantha.sterling: and then what happened?
1:29 PM me: she makes out with him and then they all go out with Tracy Morgan
one sec
samantha.sterling: k
1:36 PM me: on phone with publisher, two more minutes
1:38 PM god, guy's such a douche
being sued again
1:39 PM by the wife of that director
did Back to the Future, Cast Away, Forrest Gump
she did a book for my publisher
something about being a mistress or gold digger or some such thing
samantha.sterling: robert zemeckis?
me: and now she doesn't want it published so she's suing him
yeah, that's him
1:40 PM and he wants me to plant the story somewhere
and didn't even have any answers to my reasonable questions about my book, like release date or guestimate thereof
1:41 PM and says he'll get me check at the end of the week
luckily I got a check from Skeptical Inquirer over the weekend, otherwise I'd be incapable of doing laundry until end of week at the earliest
guy's a fucking degenerate
1:42 PM been sued by several of his authors and is lucky I didn't sue him, too
violated a contract on what was supposed to be my second book
also I'm in a bunch of fights
samantha.sterling: why are you still with this guy? and can you finish the tracy morgan story, please?
1:43 PM me: oh, right
so, Mirna makes out with Dot-Com
our friend Ashwini makes out with some DJ "as if they were two animals fighting over food," as Mirna put it
1:44 PM and they all go clubbing with Tracy Morgan, Dot Com, and the DJ
and then they came home and Mirna had gotten some sandwich from a nearby deli that totally sucked
liked, enough that it made it into the evening's retellings
samantha.sterling: wow
me: bread was really crunchy for no good reason
1:45 PM holy shit incoming
Caleb: "And there's one part...there's a group of people that plays a role called the Founders Keepers...This leads to a battle and a civil war, and life is upside down planet-wide. There's a group of people that just won't give up."
1:42 PM
me: wtf?
1:43 PM
Caleb: Glen Beck describing his new novel.
*Glenn
1:45 PM
me: jesus christ
1:46 PM samantha.sterling: why is glenn beck writing NOVELS?
1:48 PM me: because he's perfected all other forms of media
1:49 PM O'Reilly wrote a novel
this fucking Mary Sue fan fiction shit about himself
this hard-boiled detective
no, wait
he was actually a media guy
and he gets revenge against the people that stood in his way
been meaning to read it
samantha.sterling: why
me: It's called Those Who Trespass
1:50 PM lolololololololol
because it will amazing
samantha.sterling: was that the end of the story, the sandwiches?
1:51 PM your add is a tad frustrating, although i know you have more important things going on right now
me: also lol
1:52 PM wait, what?
yeah, that was the end of the story
they went out and clubbed with Tracy Morgan and then Mirna bought a shitty sandwich and woke me up and she bitched about the sandwich
what about the ad?
1:53 PM samantha.sterling: what ad?
me: "your add is a tad frustrating, "
typo maybe?
1:54 PM samantha.sterling: haha i mean ADD
me: ah-so
not ADD, sleep deprivation
also have tons of bizarre influxes of info going on
samantha.sterling: i know
me: for intance
intance
intance
intance
anywho
1:55 PM http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36055_Overnight_Open_Thread/comments/#ctop
this is the blog of Charles Johnson
who took down Dan Rather a while ago, was the most prominent and widely-read of conservative blogers
but was never really a conservative
samantha.sterling: i'll take a look at it later. i don't really feel like reading i still have a bad headache
me: and broke with the movement a while back
and now they all hate him
1:56 PM anyway, I went over this morning to announce that I needed more people for the project, programmers and whatever
1:57 PM and a couple of his commenters started making these bizarre allegations about me trying to "control" all information or some such
which is something that even I wouldn't try to do
1:58 PM and it went on and on and I had to deal with these people while in the process of ansewering legitimae questions
then finally Charles Johnson showed up and told them to knock off their crazy toy fascist nonsense
1:59 PM samantha.sterling: this all happened this morning?
me: yeah
plus a bunch of other stuff
this other fellow who writes on conservatism for The Examiner has left a couple idiotic comments on some of my old articles, like my Vanity Fair piece on Charles Krauthammer
2:00 PM so I challenged him to a debate via e-mail
on the condition that both parties publish the resulting debate in full on our respective outlets
2:01 PM so that when he gets fucking pwned he'll have to come out of the closet to his readers as a guy who gets fucking pwned by some guy doing heroin on a couch somewhere in dirty underwear
samantha.sterling: hahaha
2:02 PM me: so much scrubbery
all of these conservatives are seriously pussies in real life
all of them have weird fucking beards
2:03 PM they all hate women because they can't get laid much less swing a threesome every once in a while and thus they obsesses over female "promiscuity"
and especially bisexual behavior
there's this one
samantha.sterling: makes sense
me: Rob Dreher
2:04 PM who writes for National Review and Dallas Morning News and whatnot
very religious
once wrote a whole fucking blog post about this woman's wedding dress being too revealing
he called her a slut
some woman who's about to get married
2:05 PM and he decides to publicly call her a slut by name such that it will forever be there on Google
samantha.sterling: that's ridiculous
did she sue him
2:06 PM me: and of course he's one of those particularly wimpy little Christians who wears a beard to ook more masculiene
sorry, I can barely type or keep my eyes open
2:07 PM samantha.sterling: you're doing fine...but maybe you'd like to take a nap?
2:10 PM me: not yet, gotta watch a couple toy fascists get purged in real time
2:11 PM I get libeled an average of at least once per day somewhere on the internet and usually there's nothing I can do about it because I qualify as public figure and this is America
but in this case they're getting banned from their most precious little online discussion club
2:12 PM you feeling any better?
2:13 PM samantha.sterling: not really
my head feels like it's going to explode and i have a low grade fever
me: drinking tea?
brb, gonna buy a mountain dew from across the street
samantha.sterling: k
me: just realized what was missing from my life
3:05 PM samantha.sterling: going to take a nap. hope that mountain dew filled the void :)
3:37 PM me: I got a pepsi, worked out well. Enjoy your nap.