all right while we're on a roll, real-talk-wise, let's discuss BFF rankings. If you're my BFF, which you are, yr status is immune to th ebbs & flows of everyday life. Other types of friends drift away, become FBFs (Facebook friends), or otherwise turn into a handful of fond memories. It's v. hard to lose BFF status; you basically have to do something really bad to th human race. What you can easily do is climb up & down th rankings of th BFFs, assuming there's more than one (which there ought to be, as you know), like teams in Bill Simmons' power rankings. As of this moment, thks to yr komment, you're my most-recently-talked-to BFF. That's something, though not th most important something. Somebody I haven't talked to in a year could still be BFF #1, depending on a weird formula of feelings nobody can explain. Just like Simmons' rankings, it's based on RL input but den there's that level of gut subjectivity. Basically you & Diego have been flipping th 1 and 2 spots this whole year. I hope you are happy to know that today's kommentude noses you into th top spot again. Rome, who never calls (because I never call), has spent 2012 cellar-dwelling @ #5. But if Dwight Howard decides to exercise his free agency after his one-year contract w/ th Lakers is up, and signs w/ Rome? He could easily be looking @ a worst-to-first scenario. Th message: keep yr eye on th pack. Love you Shazz'n

--mza.

P.S. stuff has been friend-lonely down here. Writing's th one thing keeping me busy, but soon S. & I will have plot in th community garden