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brunch with jami at cafe habana yesterday; as always, we have plenty of serious and fru-fru conversation spilling out as soon as we see each other. the restaurant, whenever i walk by, has a kind of wallpaper motif going: beautiful, sweaty people eating cuban food (tailored for nolita) in a slummin' cafe that still says "italian pastries" on the tin awning outside. the service is sexy and terrible, and the food is delicious and overpriced. two cute boys are facing us as we walk in, but it's not until i've made eyes at them, tried to smile shyly, and settled into my seat do i turn around and see that they're eating with a friend/colleague of mine. this city is too goddamn small.
jami walked by cafe colonial and saw				eating there. then after we ate and i was in
the bathroom,		walked by and i missed her again. this was clearly unacceptable, so
we very coolly (we're still new yorkers, no matter how famous and neat she is) chased her down prince street until i (jami was slowing and snickering at me by this point) caught up, calmly
walked by, stuttered "excuse me," and passed				. she was wearing an emerald green
leather dress and outlandish shoes that she probably made; people who didn't know who she was were making fun of her outfit, and i briefly debated picking a fight in defense of her honor [not really].
oh my gawd, we saw fuckin'				walking down prince street!
oh my gawd, was i drunk last night. went to two parties and saw some people that were really nice to see -- classmates from college who are doing amazing things, like a dancer and artist-in-residence at a public school in brooklyn. everyone asked me about my job, it's fine, talked about the recent breakup instead, until i had thoroughly bored everyone. then went to next party, red square, penthouse, fancy, nice and cool outside, charming aussies to tell my celebrity-sighting story too. it was one of those nights when i had one, and only one, interesting thing to say, and i said it to everyone i ran into. we compared celebrity sightings and smiled at their eclecticism; for example, mine:
gilbert gotfried (for non- americans, the host of usa's up all night)		tony bennett (chinese new year in chinatown)		milla jovovich (toweling off her hair outside a west village boutique)

when i get back from the grocery store, i have to sneak a taste of half the stuff i bought. weird. even vitamins, i have to take them immediately. what do you do when a friend starts a weblog, and it not only sucks, but is kind of scary? smile politely? change the subject? stop returning emails? is this a taboo subject?

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Subject: Re: contact
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From: dante woo <[email protected]>
To: "Not Screwball (I'm so clever)" <[email protected]>
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screwy,

thanks for the message and very kind words. i can :) :( ;-) and my favorite, :D with the best of them, and am most of all glad to be building an accessible site. pikachu is irony and i had to remove it today when i went to a client meeting on wall street, but rest assured i'll find something else equally inappropriate to replace it.

many of you brits have analyzed my site along freudian lines, which makes me think that i should read some of his work. not a single psychology course in this noodle so far. when art is done well, it often looks a lot like nature. an english teacher once said that and i remembered. take care and come back soon.

./dw

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"Not Screwball (I'm so clever)" wrote:

> Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
> Not Screwball (I'm so clever) ([email protected]) on Friday, June 9, 2000 at 10:19:17
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> occupation: Student
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> citystate: Southampton
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> country: England
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> website: msdn.microsoft.com actually (sexy huh?)
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> comment: ......well actually I wanted to order a Daewoo but my fingers slipped. OK, enough banality, this whole site's a nice idea but is it original? Every time I see a nice original ideaI cuss because it's one less thing for me to pioneer. This however I don't feel any need to do. You (i.e. the site) don't look like you need help. It's a testament to your work that people of all orientations can read it and it's far and away the best diary I've seen (but then with some people you can see their formatting tags. There should be a smiley emoticon here but I can see you're not an emoticon person.)I came here to pray that your Pikachu desktop wallpaper is clever irony (maybe you'll flame me for thinking it could possibly be/be otherwise.) I'd better leave now before I run round in circles of ever-increasing introspection, which seems to plague me.
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> P.S. You might not think that your site illustrates the symbiosis between id and superego, and the extreme polarisation between the activities of the two, or that art itself is an absraction, almost a mistake of nature, wholly seperate (in origin at least) from the more primitive drives that form the bulk of this site's material. I do though.(Yes, pretentious bastard, but I wanted your feedback.)There should be a smiley emoticon here but I can see you're not an emoticon person.
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