HERE I AM TALKING ABOUT THINGS:

Kopi Luwak coffee comes out of animals. Adrian brought this from Vietnam, I think maybe
as a joke, but I was so happy to have it. It tastes like chocolate, it's really good. Nobody
else will even taste it, so I get to have it all. I guess I understand why people won't drink
it, but I assume that they wash the beans after they come out of the marmot, right?

Only The Locals Know About The Secret Menu is a book by Jason Polan and Bill
Thelen. It includes drawings of people and a pot full of food. It is so nicely copied,
there are no copy machine marks on it. I am glad and fortunate to have Jason as a
friend, he is an endless river of giving.

Mother Of Tears is a movie by Dario Argento. I liked this movie a lot, I saw it at the Music
Box Theatre in the big room with the twinkling lights on the ceiling. Everybody I talk to
about this movie say that it's terrible. Amy and I both liked it, we snuck a bottle of wine
into the theatre. It was her idea to get M&Ms to eat with the popcorn, which was totally smart.
I sent the remains or the popcorn to Jason in NYC, I bought the large but didn't eat much.
When he received the popcorn, he ate it! He reported: "thanks for sending the popcorn and
cd and note. i am eating the popcorn right now." Jason Polan does not use capital letters.

Sarah and Mollie are people that I have recently met. Sometimes I don't think I have room for new
friends but then I find some and I am so glad. Why are so many of my friends girls? You can not be
friends with Sarah and Mollie, they are my friends now.

MONEY is so awesome, you can do so much stuff with it. Some people are all like, "OH, MONEY IS
BAD, THINGS WOULD BE BETTER WITHOUT MONEY". Those people will try to borrow your money
or they will come to dinner at your house and they'll show up empty-handed and then be all like,
"WHAT?" and then after dinner they'll talk for a long time about how giant corporations are
ruining the world and then they'll go outside for a cigarette. Stop complaining, get some money!

Dan Koretzky's new business card is GREAT and looks like this. I took some of the numbers off because
I don't know how he'd feel about it being here. He said it took a long time to get the design right and then
we talked about Nig Heist. Man, life is so great sometimes.

Tony Fitzpatrick is really, really, really good at art. He's also really good at not being very friendly at the
Mexican Restaurant when the Mexican Elvis was singing It's Now Or Never and I was leaving and walked
past him and I said goodbye and he looked at me like I was from Akron, Ohio and then I decided to no longer be
polite to people that I don't really know because that will happened and I'll be all like, "WELL, THAT GUY'S A
JERK, I GUESS I'LL WRITE ABOUT IT ON MY WEBSITE."

MAN, I'VE RECEIVED SOME MAIL ABOUT THIS GUY:
"Saw your website – in addition to being a prick, Tony Fitzpatrick is also a clichéd one-note artist, a fake Da
Bears/Da Bulls Chicago blue collar slummer and a grade A creep. I think he asked Debbie to "pose" for him. I
would have kicked his fat ass, but I was in Iraq at the time and I also didn't want to hurt Bob Klunk's feelings
that I went loco on his art guru. "

"I know why I hate that dude. Whenever he’s being interviewed or something he gives off that whole fake ass
“man of the people” vibe -- like he’s a super friendly regular Joe, who grabs a lunch pail and a hard hat and
makes “art” for the everyman that represents the old timey ethos of Chicago, and the smokestacks and
barrooms of his father’s city. Except when you meet him he’s a totally uppity prick who’s just managed to pass
himself off as some kind of “folk” art genius to a bunch of rich North Shore people who want to act like they’re
into the working man’s deal. Meanwhile, he tries to use his status to get big breasted women to model for him.
Fuck you, you Uncle Fester looking fraud!"

This drawing of Bushwick Bill isn't really all that good but the person that paid me $9 for it IS SO HAPPY TO HAVE IT.
Dude, nobody bought that drawing. Look at his arm, it's all wonked.

Here's a video of Ruth Borum painting! When I watched this video it makes me want to get to work.