| Subject: Chat with selenaleong@gmail.com |
| From: "selenaleong@gmail.com" <selenaleong@gmail.com> |
2:19 PM selenaleong: uh elvis doesn't have rabies, right?
me: nope
selenaleong: are you SURE
me: yeah
selenaleong: if i start foaming at the mouth i'm going to be super bummed
me: me too
selenaleong: "i got a girl killed after i fake raped her"
me: I would probably keep that to myself
2:20 PM selenaleong: so just "i got a girl killed after i got her drunk on cheap vodka"
that doesn't have the same snap
2:21 PM me: yeah, I'd keep that to myself for entirely different reasons
selenaleong: reasons such as?! ha ha
2:22 PM me: well, it would lack oopmh
oomph, rather
selenaleong: crap this dog bite is a bad omen
last time i got injured on a first hang out ...
2:23 PM me: meh, omens
selenaleong: well the other one was pretty bad too
smashing face into a marble end table
landing on a wine glass while topless, glass shattered into my tit and cut a huge swath of skin out
i had a weeping wound for weeks.
and a bruise on my face that took two weeks to entirely fade.
2:24 PM me: that sounds worse
selenaleong: a woman stopped me on the subway and gestured to her chin, and motioned to me, saying " you have ink on your face" during that two week period.
2:53 PM me: http://i.imgur.com/G07TI.jpg
2:54 PM selenaleong: fuck, don't make me laugh, my lip is about to explode
2:55 PM me: anyway, I'd never done anything akin to role playing before
I usually just have sex with girls and leave it at that
selenaleong: really?
me: I'm pretty English
selenaleong: i'm not really into it either
but it just kind of happened with you
me: yeah
was interesting
2:56 PM selenaleong: "interesting" = ?
me: worth doing
new experience
selenaleong: was it something you'd want to do again?
me: sure
probably would want to be stoned
selenaleong: hmm i def. don't want to be way wasted again
2:57 PM i'm a way better fuck when sober
me: were you that wasted?
I didn't realize
selenaleong: well yes/no
i mean i was lucid
BUT the passing out thing was weird
maybe i was in shock from the dog bite.
me: you certainly went out pretty quick
2:58 PM selenaleong: i mean i will pass out, no doubt, it happens
but i don't think i drank enough to warrant it!
me: I had to do a couple things on the computer anyway
selenaleong: ha ha well that's good
it was a convenient pass out.
me: no, there's still a lot of vodka left, you definitely didn't drink a whole lot
selenaleong: i KNOW!
me: also, you didn't turn purple
selenaleong: i can usually put away a TON!
me: like you promised to
selenaleong: hmm it will happen
2:59 PM it's maybe not PURPLE
but it's a heavy flush
me: figured
anyway, you say you've never really role played
you don't count all that bdsm stuff?
selenaleong: not in recent time
3:00 PM hmm
hmmm
i honestly haven't done any serious BDSM shit since i started that blog
me: god damnit
selenaleong: what, calling a dude "daddy" ?
that shit is boring
me: my mom is sending me end-of-the-world stuff again
selenaleong: i can go spanish and say "ai papi too"
me: I thought that daddy thing was like your big thing
selenaleong: it IS
i like it
3:01 PM but it isn't just CALLING a man daddy
i want him to BE a daddy? but not my real daddy.
me: I see
selenaleong: it's a really strange dynamic
of wanting to please
and being docile
but bratty
3:02 PM me: apparently it's very common
selenaleong: so i can get disciplined
yes it is
i mean it's a much more sensual version of master/servant
i hate the corny DOM/sub shit
like leather vests, corsets, crap like that
i don't think those are necessary, at least to me. it's a mindset
me: yeah. sounds stupid
selenaleong: not an accessory to buy
like people with full dungeons in their homes
i think about how they must spend hours building
buying components
3:03 PM to fulfill/create a fantasy
an illusion in the physical realm
when so much of it is mental
me: does ny press pay?
3:04 PM oh, speaking of which
there's this fucking nut
who used to sort of stalk me
3:05 PM and who got upset because I never got back to him after he sent me a manuscript for some shitty coming-of-age novelette
selenaleong: it was 75$
me: anyway, he did a NY press article as well
selenaleong: hahaha really
me: 75 isn't pad
selenaleong: what's his name
me: bad
Peter Weissman
selenaleong: no it's not bad at all
what's his article about
3:06 PM me: he's like, a pillar of the Bushwick white/yuppie community
selenaleong: coming of age stories are so zzzZZZzzz
me: I'll send you a link in a sec, gotta find it
basically, the editor of Bushwickbk
is frightened of him
because he's a psycho
works in real estate, owns a house over on Flushing
was briefly a friend of mine
selenaleong: hmm sounds like a winner
3:07 PM can i have his number
3:08 PM me: yes
selenaleong: i don't want his number.
me: I know
3:09 PM trying to find this link, one sec
selenaleong: fret not, chicken butt
3:18 PM me: here we go
http://www.nypress.com/article-17854-flavor-of-the-week-flings-go-better-with-coke.html
same feature you wrote for
this guy's a fucking tool
tried to hit on my friend Catalina
selenaleong: ugh the 1st paragraph is terrible
me: the one who's dating the married neuroscientist
selenaleong: he seems like a pompous blowhard
me: hung out with her once
3:19 PM she didn't touch him at all
he sent angry messages the next day
of the sort one might expect from someone one has been fucking or dating or whatever for six months
selenaleong: oh god
what a psycho
um, i couldn't make it past one paragraph
me: he also left comments on one of my columns when I was writing for Bushwick BK
3:20 PM selenaleong: too many exclamation points
me: claiming that I was an heir
selenaleong: hahahahaha
what
me: and pointing out that I was a junkie
selenaleong: an heir to stupidity maybe
oh that was classy
what a hater
me: I had to call the editor and have him take out the junkie part
could have ruined my shit
selenaleong: yeah that's not cool.
me: I confronted him about it later
selenaleong: shit like that would warrant a brick to the face
or a bat to the knees.
me: guy was really weird about it
3:21 PM yeah, I seriously
selenaleong: passive about it?
like "i'm sorry you're so upset" ?
if so, then you should have stabbed him
me: well, this was when I was pretty violence-minded due to certain drugs and my associations
selenaleong: haha
me: was going to storm his house and fuck him up
selenaleong: this is probably the only shit i would have condoned considering the situation
me: but was convinced not to, luckily
selenaleong: yes well that's probably a good thing.
me: but, seriously
selenaleong: "GODDAMMIT BARRETT PUT DOWN THE UZI AND HAVE A FUCKING VODKA"
3:22 PM me: vodka wouldn't help
but anyway
guy's among the biggest tools ever
oh
I'll share the doc with you
his manuscript
god, it's fucking faggotry
3:23 PM it's typical young male "OH I DID DRUGS AND SHOT SOME GUNS AND HAD SEX WITH GIRLS OH LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL HARD-CORE EXISTENCE"
like, did some acid
WHOAH!
but you're not ready to read that, trust me
you're just not
3:24 PM selenaleong: it sounds like i would just be bored
does he think it's some fucking "basketball diaries" type shit
me: yes
selenaleong: i would probably be annoyed
and insulted that an asshat like him would get a deal
me: another young male sent me another, very similar manuscript to read over
same fucking shit
WE SOLD SOME ECSTASY ZOMG
selenaleong: where do these dudes find you
does it have "professional sucker" on your CV
3:25 PM me: these are people i've accidentally met around town
selenaleong: you should probably stop being so friendly
or maybe develop an alter ego
3:26 PM who doesn't influence people to give him their shitty writing
me: I'm just reasonably polite
anyway
doesn't matter, as I just ignore the manuscripts
selenaleong: whatever soon you will be afforded the luxury of being a stuck up dickhead
3:27 PM me: except that I shared Weisman's manuscript with all my friends and even just acquaintances so that everyone could laugh at it
3:28 PM selenaleong: hahahahah OK
well would i get a good laugh
i could use one
me: yes
3:29 PM selenaleong: alright when you find it, send it my way
is it hard copy?
or digital
me: sending now
3:30 PM selenaleong: oh god
3:31 PM me: you received it, right, the shared document?
selenaleong: yes
hahahahah click to open peter weisman's shitty novel
ahahahhahaha
christ i can't laugh it hurts
me: anyway, I've just ignored him since
3:32 PM but bushwick is about to run another piece by me on Project PM
selenaleong: ugh he starts off w /"story time"
me: if he pulls any shit
selenaleong: i can't read this
i want to kill him
me: I'm going to engage in massive retaliation
selenaleong: what are you going to do
you should post his shitty novel
me: a lot of shit
selenaleong: i can't read this, he is so stilted and awkward
this is seriously horrible
3:33 PM me: basically, going to make it such that, for all time, his existence is remembered in the manner in which I want it to be remembered
selenaleong: mental note: do not burn any bridges w/ barrett brown
what's your middle name, i hope it's oscar
me: such that anyone - himself, his kids, potential partners, girlfriends, etc - will see what a douchebag and creep he is
Lancaster
3:34 PM I did something similar to two editor/publishers who owed me thousands of dollars
and they had to pay up
after years of holding out
selenaleong: haha
you are a man wielding a flame thrower
me: that's one of those things that a lot of people don't understand yet, the weaponization of the internet
3:35 PM selenaleong: oh i'm well aware of it
someone made up a rumor about me when i was 19
that shit STILL gets brought up
EVEN NOW.
3:36 PM me: yeah, the internet is serious business, as they say
selenaleong: hence why one must be careful
i've had my parents' home # posted
3:40 PM OK i made it two paragraphs into this dude's book, i can't do it, i just respect words too much
me: understandable
3:41 PM selenaleong: he thinks he's so clever
it's embarrassing
me: yeah
selenaleong: is he socially kind of...awkward
me: uh, yes
selenaleong: i get the impression he's just...weird.
me: he stares at people strangeley
selenaleong: must be the acid in his system
3:42 PM lingering
me: no, if that was the case I'd be going up to people and slobbering on them and repeating, "HI I LIKE YOU LIKE YOU HELLO LIKE YOU"
selenaleong: wait you don't do that?
me: depends
3:43 PM selenaleong: i thought that was perfectly acceptable, it's always worked for me
me: I like to change it up a bit
selenaleong: yeah chicks LOVE "intense" guys.
3:45 PM me: I don't understand why Peter's piece got used in NY Press
do me a favor
selenaleong: yes?
me: give me contact info for whatever editor you wrote piece for
selenaleong: sure
me: I'll give you contact info for a bunch of other editors in exhange
3:46 PM selenaleong: arathe@manhattanmedia.com
his name is adam rathe
me: groovy, thanks
selenaleong: no problem!
are you going to pitch something
he only does the sex column stuff
3:47 PM me: yep
I'm going to see about doing a couple of sex columns
selenaleong: cool
me: would take me like twenty minutes to write these
selenaleong: yeah that took me like...30 minutes
me: plus I could use another good pub title to use in my queries
selenaleong: haha
well i hope you get it
i'm sure you will
3:48 PM if that asshat was able to get published
me: yeah, I have no idea how that happened
my dipshit book publisher also had a piece for them a couple years back
selenaleong: he must be giving blowjobs at a steady clip
me: I think it might just be overlooked by most of the good writers
selenaleong: well it's the NY press
nobody erally reads it
me: it's not a bad pub, they've had lots of great stuff
3:49 PM I really enjoyed it back in 2003 when I first lived here
selenaleong: hahah i did enjoy it around then too.
i read it regularly then
i think my friend was their art director then too
3:50 PM me: I'm supposed to be writing for New York Observer, went it for a meeting with deputy editor and everything, but fucking guy hasn't been very good about following up
pisses me off a lot
that's extraordinarily unprofessional
selenaleong: yes it is
maybe he's super busy
keep writing him to follow up
me: like, he wanted me to do attack pieces with time-stamps, pegs, etc
selenaleong: annoy him to no end
me: and I had an idea
then fucking Associated Press did same thing
after I'd been writing him about it for a week
3:54 PM selenaleong: are they avoiding you
3:55 PM me: nah, he wrote back and said he was still very interested
he's just busy
but this is one of the things he should be busy doinh
3:56 PM selenaleong: he'll get around to it
i'm sure you can write a compelling list of reasons detailing why