Subject: Chat with itsemibutler@gmail.com
From: "itsemibutler@gmail.com" <itsemibutler@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

me: let me know if you'd like to hear an amusing anecdote from the incompetent world of magazine writing
me: from this morning
me: it's now my favorite anecdote
itsemibutler: yes
itsemibutler: sry i was at worm
itsemibutler: work
me: lol worm
me: that was briefly confusing
me: long story short
me: I turned in this article for D Magazine the other day
me: the editor edited it a bit
me: mostly just to break down long sentences for the benefit of their dumbass readers
me: but also adds in a line about a rally at which the subject of the article spoke having been attended by "200 souls"
me: then this morning I get an e-mail from the assistant editor who says the fact checker thinks there were more people
me: which there were
me: So I have to explain that it was the main editor who inexplicably added nonsense to the article
me: also the fact checker can't seem to verify my statement regarding the fact that Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and a couple other presidents signed nuke reduction treaties with the Russians
me: even though I actually refer to the treaties by name in the article itself
me: so she could have, like, Googled them
itsemibutler: ok lemme catch up
itsemibutler: why didn't she Google it
me: I have no fucking idea
itsemibutler: who is this moron
itsemibutler: that's the first thing i would've done
itsemibutler: google
me: I don't know who the fact checker is, the editor of D is Tim Rogers
me: who used to work for The Met
me: I was an intern there when I was 16
me: he used to write a great column called Mr. Funny Guy
itsemibutler: god i met my friends mom the other day and had to watch fox news with her
itsemibutler: which
me: you mean you GOT to watch Fox News with her
me: I was on Fox last year
itsemibutler: yea I've seen it
me: there's a Colbert Report sticker on the microwave in the green room
me: and the host introduced me as being with an organization that doesn't exist
itsemibutler: if i could marry and or bone anyone ever
itsemibutler: its either be cmatt or Kieth oldby
itsemibutler: olby
itsemibutler: bhahahHahajzhah
itsemibutler: what a moron
itsemibutler: i would've corrected them o. air
me: Olbermann is a douche in person
me: and not good with women
me: who's cmatt?
itsemibutler: .....
itsemibutler: c matt
itsemibutler: hardball
itsemibutler: show of my youth
itsemibutler: he's hilarious
me: he is indeed a character
me: how was worm today?
itsemibutler: sry I'm driving
itsemibutler: worm was okay
itsemibutler: had to be there at 5am
itsemibutler: 530am i for a call from my boss asking where i was
itsemibutler: woops
itsemibutler: i am not an aggressive driver at all
itsemibutler: however
itsemibutler: 635 makes me feel homicidal
itsemibutler: they have it like, shut down or something
me: I haven't driven in years
itsemibutler: i hate it
me: so being a passenger in Dallas again freaks me out
me: it seems like everyone should be crashing
me: but they don't
itsemibutler: but after i got in a bike wreck
itsemibutler: I'm not as ballsy
me: bike wreck, eh?
itsemibutler: hit by a car
me: holy shit, when did that happen?
itsemibutler: summer 2009
me: did you break anything?
itsemibutler: no
me: it's a me, Mario!
me: your screen name keeps evoking that
me: sounds like it's a me, Butler!