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[lostcosmonaut]

there's a little kid named 4 PoundZ who does rap who appears to operate out of his kid sister's bedroom somewhere in Chicago, whom th Youtube commentators love to crucify. "Those aren't my Barbies. They're my sister's," he rebuts, and even in 2009 -- 18 years after I signed up for my first e-mail address, innocently -- it is a moment of profound

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no more words

[grumpalita]

felt kindof dumb b/c all i wanted to do was push the " like " icon. I LIKE THIS. gah.

technology has to catch up w my feelings

[lostcosmonaut]

you can still do that ... on th doppelganger FB version !! Thank U4 reading, Big O. You know how sometimes you juswanna push LIKE on a person's whole life and way of being? That's how I feel about you and yr family

!--mza.

only 33 more entries! Gadzook. You'll be done by Christmas, man.

[chocolatebark]

Jesus is Frank White? Maybe..

actually thirty two entries now that this one is done

[lostcosmonaut]

jesus
Big Baby Jesus
Biggie Smalls
CHRISTopher George Latore Wallace
Frank White
Frank Black
Frank Sobotka
Barack Obama

Coincidence? Never

--mza.

let's get the first, lazy comment out of the way

[bismarcky]

frank black liked dylan's afternoon delight

did kim deal used to babysit dylan

[lostcosmonaut]

is Frank Black Dylan's godfather or something. Dylan, if you are reading this, I KNOW about yr ancestry

--mza.

and baltimore schools still don't get fixed, they get the opposite, and hardly anyone even knows it

[lesion]

do you find that as you approach your self-imposed finish line, you're wanting to cram more into your entries? or cram your best into your entries?

th wire is really good at showing how scarce funding gets shifted around

[lostcosmonaut]

yes, exactly, I think that's why my entries are so long now

/:

I want to get together w/ you to discuss a project I'm working on -- well also to hang out, but also BUSINESS

--mza.

sometimes i wonder if david simon took all the real stuff he learned at the sun and turned it into

[lesion]

fiction to keep himself from going crazy over why nobody gave a shit.

then when it was art, fiction, a cool story, people gave a lot of shits.

i still love it anyway.

how about next week?

i would like to collect the set of 33

[hellnation]

and like the wire, i will be very sad when this is all over.

just don't go rushing your season five.

will send you th file from my other compuzer what has all th musick

[lostcosmonaut]

i DO feel like rushing, but th Wire also makes me want to do it RIGHT, you are right

Look @ what a JUGGERNAUT Ed Burns is:

http://www.hbo.com/thewire/interviews/ed_burns_intro.shtml

!--mza.

prez has a burns moment

[hellnation]

i seriously admire the art of reinvention and wish i could master it myself.

thanking you for future music :)

perspective on effort and achievement

[lostcosmonaut]

on th one hand, people like Ed Burns make me want to do better @ th things I do; but on th other hand, they make th things I do look V. TRIVIAL INDEED

You're welcome in th future -- aren't these songs rockin'?--mza.

may yr novel never end.

[myglock_yrface]

Are you going to SPX this year? M. and I might (might if $$ is good).

cross fingers

[lostcosmonaut]

not even Chris + Snoop w/ a nailgun could keep me from going to SPX this year. If things go according to plan, I'll have 44 Presidents book to sell ...! Be stoked to meet you guys FINALLY

--mza.