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9.30.08 GMAIL CHAT
TAO LIN & ZACHARY GERMAN


4:47 PM me: my leg and hip pain intensified today, i feel crippled by hip pain instead of loneliness now, i'm seeing a doctor
 Zachary: thats funny
  a lot of buttons on m ky my keyboard dont work
4:48 PM like delete
 me: i want to be crippled by loneliness not hip pain
4:49 PM Zachary: thats funny
  i dont know
4:50 PM you hvave a thing
  like a war or cancer
  its different
  i donno
  ou know you will feel better or something
  dont you walike that
 me: i feel uncertain about the future of my hip, some part of me believes it will never get better
4:51 PM st vincent's hospital's website is 'fucking shitty'
4:52 PM Zachary: st vinecnent

5 minutes
4:57 PM me: i now know how people with amputated limbs or chronic pain from cancer feel like, i can write a chronic pain from war injuries post iraqi war novel now

5 minutes
5:02 PM Zachary: do you anticipate your book doing well because fo bulevima ebeing a social issue
5:03 PM me: yes, i think
  i mean
  no
  i don't know
 Zachary: i feel like it will
 me: god
  good
 Zachary: people will think it has social merit
  your book
 me: oh, good
 Zachary: like go ask allice
 me: what happens in it
  what is the social thing
 Zachary: its about drugs
5:04 PM me: i feel my book is really ultimately life affirming
  because the characters are trying to be good
  distinguishing it from other things that involve bulimia or something
 Zachary: i didnt mean ti wasnt that
5:05 PM me: i was just saying other stuff
 Zachary: i just meant for people that usually wouldnt like literary fiction for th reasons you or i would might like it for its social thing or something
 me: yes, i agree
 Zachary: fuck my keyboard
 me: i just thought 'it also has war in it' which isn't true
  i thought it had some war, like vietnam
 Zachary: i just chortled
5:06 PM i ogot second life yesterday i dont nknwo how to use it
  do you have second life
 me: it would be really funny if you wrote a vietnam war novel
  no
  does it have graphics
 Zachary: yeah
  it looks like 2asfadsgsg 5 o r 8 years ago
 me: it sounds shitty, like i dont want to look at it
 Zachary: you get to make the girls take their clothes off
  and fly
  thats all i do
5:07 PM me: i heard you have to buy a penis
 Zachary: oh,
  i dont know

8 minutes
5:15 PM me: i think i'm going to get nyu alumni gym membership and swim regularly in tight swimming short things like the american apparel underwear

11 minutes
5:26 PM Zachary: good
  i want to swim



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10.18.06 GMAIL CHAT
P.H. MADORE & TAO LIN


3:12 PM Madore: Give me your address in PA or let's meet up at some point or something
 me: no, i dont meet people
 Madore: You met fucking Carol Novack
 me: by accident at a reading


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10.03.08 GMAIL CHAT
JAMIE STERNS & TAO LIN


11:58 PM Jamie: hi
11:59 PM me: hi
  am i invisible right now?
  on gchat
 Jamie: um no
  you are not
  i meant to say hi to someone else
 me: oh i thought it said i was
 Jamie: sorry
  but
  hi
  i guess
12:00 AM me: oh ok
  hi
 Jamie: ok
 me: i meant to be on invisible, i am going on invisible
  'good night'


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8.12.07 GMAIL CHAT
NOAH CICERO & BRANDON SCOTT GORRELL


8:10 AM Noah: you are there
  or you not there
  no one is there
  silence
  crickets
 me: mm
 Noah: a rattle snake scurries across the carpet
 me: brandon is here
 Noah: you read that book i posted
 me: oh
  yes
  its good
 Noah: is it okay
8:11 AM me: i read an excerpt to my friend aloud
  i tried to emulate your voice
  he laughed alot
  we could barely get through it
 Noah: no one will publish it because there is no sex and does not list music bands
 me: not because of the voice emulaton
  because of the content
  hm
  write a section on sex
  that would be good
 Noah: they say, "give me sex and music band names"
8:12 AM me: write a section on sex
 Noah: noah cicero eats donkey shit and jerks off on his mother's face
 me: just
  insert sex scenes
 Noah: sex pistols romones
  you spent time with tao lin
  how was thati
  i have spent time with tao lin
8:13 AM me: it was comforting
 Noah: yes good word
  he doesn't talk much
 me: how did you like spending time with him
  no he doesnt
 Noah: it was nice
  he doesn't talk much
 me: i was a little scared
  but i understood
 Noah: he told me my feet smelled and i will never get laid because my feet smell
  and then he sprayed perfume onm y feet
 me: he told me
8:14 AM i had nice shoes
  we watched a movie
  on my couch
 Noah: like the whore in the bible
 me: mary
 Noah: no
 me: mary magdeline
8:15 AM Noah: when jesus goes to see the sanhedren, a random whore comes in and washes jesus' feet with perfume
 me: that was mary
  and then she dries his feet with her hair
 Noah: who knows
 me: i think i remember
 Noah: yeah,, that is really dramatic
 me: i always thought
  that was strange
8:16 AM Noah: there is some really dramatic shit in the bible
  campy
 me: there are good battles
  there is one
  where someone, a guy, he has to hold up his arms
  and wherever his arms are pointing, the soldiers in that direction will start winning
8:17 AM but if he drops his arms or points them in another direction they will start losing
 Noah: i dont' recall that part
  old testament
 me: i dont know where it is
 Noah: ?
 me: maybe its there
  i just remember being taught things
 Noah: are you jewish
  i'm not jewish
 me: i am nothing
8:18 AM but, my parents made me go to church as catholic
  when i was young
  it was stupid, they
  they didnt even believe in it
  but they made me go for some reason
 Noah: you live in seasttle
  correct
 me: yes
 Noah: have you been to eugene oregon
 me: no
 Noah: i've been there like four times
  i like it there
8:19 AM me: should i go there
 Noah: have you fucked any of the suicide girls
  i don't know
 me: mm
 Noah: seatttle might be nice
 me: i kissed one i think
 Noah: that is awesome
 me: it was before suicide girls got big
  so
  its not as cool now
 Noah: no itis cool
 me: seattle is ok
  i dont know
8:20 AM taos post about me gave me like 5000% increase in hits
 Noah: he gets 800 hits a day
  he is like blog god
 me: i know
8:21 AM that is crazy
  insane
 Noah: do you have stat coutner
 me: yeah
  i am looking
  i get like
  20
  a day
  on average
 Noah: i get like 200 to 300
 me: i saw yours
  tao showed me when he was here
8:22 AM Noah: i'm not blogging until soft skull tellls me if i am goiing to be famous or nott
 me: who
  who is that
 Noah: soft skull
  that indie press
 me: where did you get the diet pill speed
  where did bernice get it
 Noah: mega t
  from bernice
 me: i cant fined it
  i went to like
  3 stores
 Noah: rite aide
 me: rite aid.
  ok
 Noah: you like diet pills
 me: i will go tehere
8:23 AM i dont know
  i am bored
  filling a void
 Noah: do you work or go to college
  what do you do
 me: i need to finish my novel
 Noah: to fill the days
  you are writing a novel
 me: i go to work writing bullshit things
 Noah: what is it about
  what is your job
 me: writer
  the novel excerpt
  its on my blog
  tao
  tao made a post
  look at his blog to see more
8:24 AM my job is to write things like
 Noah: okay
  i have two days off
 me: "discover the feeling"
  thats good
 Noah: i work today
  then two days
  i work to make the money
  to get the lap dances
  to get the boners
8:25 AM me: i dont know
  what about
  that you cant fuck them
  i got mad
  about a lap dance
 Noah: no that is good
 me: i dont like them for that reason
 Noah: fucking people can get complicated
  they are in your house
  and saying stupid shit
 me: ha
 Noah: you don't want to hear
8:26 AM me: forget the other things
 Noah: and you are like, "fuck, this bitch won't shut up." or they are fucking you and they start talking about when their uncle fucked them
 me: you have a boner
 Noah: and a lot of people want to ahve an emotional investment
 me: you can not act on that boner
 Noah: not right now
  the boner will go away
 me: but
  it was there
  for a reason
 Noah: go home masturbate to inernet porn, it is a lot safer
 me: to have sex
 Noah: internet porn cannot get pregnant
 me: the boner doesnt think that
8:27 AM i dont know
  lap dances only make me frustrated
  i only had like
  2
 Noah: i've had many
  they get better as time goes by
8:28 AM you realize you are getting older and it is safer to pay for love than actually to deal with it for free
  i'm weird though, and i gotta go,
  it was nice talking to you
  thank you for reading my book
 me: have a good day at work
  yes
  yore welom

11 minutes
8:40 AM Noah: i read the excerot
  excerpt
  i like it
  do you read kathy acjer
  acker
8:41 AM me: mm
  no
  what did she write
  thank you
  for the compliment
 Noah: black tarnatula
  she is good
  she is dead now
 me: i havent heard of it
  shes dead
  i will get it
  i will steal it
8:42 AM Noah: yeah
  i'm goiing to read your blog more
 me: ok


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