Subject: Chat with Catalina Saldaña
From: "Catalina Saldaña" <cat.salda@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

10:58 PM Catalina: hey there
 me: oh hai
10:59 PM Catalina: you look so beautfuil in that video'
 me: which one?
  latest?
 Catalina: yes
  i want to buy you flowers and get promotion at banking job so you wont cheat on me with mark
11:00 PM me: well, my mom has breast cancer
  but that's not really an issue for some reason
 Catalina: its official
  shes got the cancer
 me: definitely
11:01 PM Catalina: so the dallas thing will not happen until december
  please come visit
11:02 PM pretty please!!!!!!!!
 me: I might have to come up anyway
 Catalina: you can stay with me
 me: I was planning on it
  might have to shoot down to D.C. briefly
 Catalina: may i come to dc with you?
11:03 PM me: sure
 Catalina: oh carl watched your videos by the way
 me: going to meet with Andrew Sullivan down there
 Catalina: cool
 me: in which case we might go to Provincetown with him
 Catalina: i dont know where that it but im down
 me: resort, full of homos and wasps
 Catalina: awesome!!!!
 me: you'll feel right at home
11:04 PM Catalina: you and andrew will fir right in
  im get stoned
  lynched!!
 me: I'll have to sign a waiver since you're Mexican
  just don't join any gangs or anything
 Catalina: ill try but its hard
11:05 PM i am genetically predisposed to join gangs
 me: I am too, actually
  like in Gangs of New York
  speaking of gangs
  we now have a former CIA special operations fellow in Project PM
 Catalina: lets talk about your enlighten the vote on fox and friends video
  cool
 me: check out this fucking guy
11:06 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Eisler
 Catalina: carl kep getting annoyed that that guy kept interrupting you and you were polite and let him
  but you werent being polite
 me: he thinks my book's the greatest thing ever and is promoting it
 Catalina: you were being a smug asshole
 me: yep
 Catalina: peopplewho dont know you dont get that though
 me: well, I wasn't going to get in a fucking crosstalk yelling match with a fucking dipshit preacher
  I'll fucking die first
11:07 PM let the enemy do the fucking work
 Catalina: that guy sure likes rain
11:08 PM me: you looked pretty cute in your black eye picture for a girl with a black eye
  yeah, I hate when people do that
  they always name their assassins something like that
 Catalina: do what?
 me: fucking Bourne
 Catalina: oh
  my assasins name is Lilly Love
  shes a nun
11:09 PM Nun Lilly LOve
 me: that's not bad
 Catalina: or Sister Lilly Love
 me: Mine is Bob Assassin
  he's an assassin
 Catalina: not Bob Loblaw?
11:10 PM me: that's the agent he worked with during the Cold War who later went rogue
 Catalina: you were supposed to send me that picture i sent you bu the way
11:11 PM me: I'm not sure how
 Catalina: HIs name should be Agent Rgue
  Rogue
 me: wait, send it to your phone
11:12 PM Catalina: My name is Uffie
 me: look what fucking James Bond here sent me today
  Barrett, if you don't mind my saying, and I promise not to go on and on about it, but... the book is brilliant. Really. Read the prologue and Friedman and Bennett chapters last night and so far it's just superb -- horrifying, hilarious, fucking devastating. The notion of equating pundits with failed-but-still-flourishing futurists is smart and I can't think of a better way to help people see the nature of the problem. The first paragraph is a lapel-grabber. Your arguments and evidence are unanswerable, and there were so many lines that had me laughing out loud... Bennett, a spirit creature from Neptune composed of pure energy. Some actual sentences Friedman has written (which reminded me of on SNL skit where Tiny Fey did Sarah Palin, but without manufactured dialogue -- she repeated Palin's actual, fantastically garbled words, and the joke was that no comedy could possibly top the real thing).
 Catalina: and Ive got some thing MCCs can kiss
 me: it's a nice butt cheek and it goes like this
  mwah
  you fucked with the wrong bitch
11:13 PM Catalina: its a lapel grabber!!!!!!!!!!!!
11:14 PM me: damn right
 Catalina: may a grab your lapel?
 me: if I get popular, I know that ain't fair
  if I had one, yes
11:15 PM also what's a lapel?
 Catalina: may I grab your monocle and shatter it on the wall
 me: I've forgotten
 Catalina: its a monocle shatterer!!!!!!!!
 me: if that's what the kids are doing these days
  it's a phonograph basher
 Catalina: a lapel is where you put your carnation on your vest my dear
 me: oh, right
11:16 PM I've been eating mine
 Catalina: what??!!! i am shocked
  and what do you do with your cuff links?
 me: actually I rub girls with roses while we make love
  cuff people with them
  LOOK AT THIS ROSE SMELL IT SO SENSUAL LOVE
 Catalina: i dont think thats possible
 me: then I lied
11:17 PM Catalina: roses are sensual
  i love it when a guy rubs roses all over me
 me: fag sensual
 Catalina: and the thorns get caught in my skin
  and theres bloody blood everywhere!!!
 me: like vampires!
 Catalina: and a high risk for contamination
11:18 PM blood borne pathogens!!!!!!
 me: I wish a young vampire boy would come and sweep me off my deet
  damnit
 Catalina: your deet?
 me: apparently so
 Catalina: im supposed to go out with a tennis player i met on the beach the other day
11:19 PM me: lol gay
  or, I guess not
  hetero
  except for the tennis part
  that's gay
  I'll have Eisler assassinate him
11:20 PM Catalina: please do
  he sounds like an idiot
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Spadea
11:21 PM me: not a very flattering picture
 Catalina: nope
  but i am starting to dat again
  real normal people
  well hes not really real or normal but you know what i mean
11:22 PM me: right
 Catalina: im just biding my time till you ask for my hand in holy matrimony
 me: I'm pretty sure I've already offered
 Catalina: well it wasnt memorable!!!!!!!
11:23 PM i need fireworks in times square
  and balloons and banners
 me: I guess I just tried to trick you into coming to Mexico
 Catalina: and a parade
  oh that works
  but you signed that stupid lease
  lets go to mexico
 me: lol, lease
 Catalina: were were supposed to then you got some ho preggers
 me: I've never stuck with a lease my entire life
11:24 PM man, that ho be trippin'
 Catalina: alright
 me: I referred her to my lawyer
  Mirna
  and then sent these crazy e-mails
  to Mirna
 Catalina: she did?
 me: who's getting close to taking civil action
  not only that
  she made up a name and e-mail account
11:25 PM sent an e-mail to Jeremy Sapienza, editor of BushwickBK where I used to write a column
  saying I was a junkie
  which hasn't been true for weeks and weeks
  Sapienza happens to be a Project PM membeer
  so he forwarded the e-mail to me, of course
  between that and the dozen other bizarre messages she's sent
11:26 PM I could take her down pretty solid in a civil action
  but I'd prefer to avoid that
  but Mirna's pretty fucking pissed
 Catalina: girls are crazy
11:27 PM me: they're usually not this crazy
 Catalina: but at the same time i wish i had balls like that
 me: I'll forward you the e-mails, they're fucking nuts
  she doesn't have balls, she's just nuts
  she's fucking with a lawyer
  and she knows perfectly well that I have a fucking cyber army and three other lawyers and whatnot
11:28 PM and she's opening herself up to civil action and doesn't seem to realize that
  plus she accused Mirna of sleeping with me and being a heroin addict
  but first
  noted that both were "women of color"
  and that I am a white devil
11:29 PM Catalina: why is she going so crazy?
 me: and that my lawyer should thus turn against me and not inform me of the first e-mail she sent my lawyer
  forgetting that my lawyer is an Arab
  and she is half-Jewish
  not only an Arab, but Lebanese
11:30 PM not a lot of solidarity there
 Catalina: yeah
11:31 PM me: anyway, I don't know what's going on with her
  I think she intended a pregnancy
  and then it didn't work
11:32 PM she claims to have taken the morning after pill two weeks after I left NYC
  now, I'm no gynecologist
  but Mirna informs me that such a thing makes no sense
11:35 PM Catalina: makes no sense
  morning after pill
  not 2weeks after pill
 me: yeah
11:36 PM oh, but in one of her e-mails
  actually, I won't ruin them for you, one sec

9 minutes
11:46 PM Catalina: i was under the impression the sex was unintentional
 me: me too
  just sort of fell in there
11:48 PM I am a serious gamer about to go pro Barrett couldn't even understand how to use the controller on the xbox and the person I was gaming with left the game when he got on.
 Catalina: what does "ged him" mean?
 me: no idea
11:51 PM Catalina: eeeewwwww
  a lady never sweats!!
 me: I know
  she must be punished
  oops, gotta go
11:52 PM buenos noches lol
 Catalina: wait...
  wait...
  nooooo
  sserious gamer?
  explain
  thats a joke right?