Yesterday, @ryannorth​, I vowed to dig up EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER WRITTEN and SHOVE IT into the cold light of day.

Today, crammed into a shoebox deep in a file drawer with a bunch of other stuff from 2006, I found this – the script for Friends Forever Till the Universe Explodes. Ryan, I don't know if you had forgotten completely about this, but I had.

Seeing it all wrinkled and worn brought a flood of memories back. Laughing in restaurants – my first visit to Toronto when we walked around downtown and tried to get onto the roof of that hospital or whatever it was – your first visit to Los Angeles when we got stuck trying to navigate the same intersection in Silverlake for like fifteen minutes – laughing, joking, getting to know one another...and then the realization, in the middle of a Whispered Apologies-related conversation as I recall, that we had the makings of a show.

Writing. Revising. Rehearsing. Being unable to decide whether to hold the show in Los Angeles or Toronto, then coming up with the brilliant idea (for a couple of 25-year-olds) that we should split the difference and hold it in Sutherland, Nebraska, exactly halfway between the two!

It was such a fiasco that we vowed never to speak of it again. Well, I'm sorry, Ryan. I'm sorry that I'm breaking that promise now. I'm sorry that I won't forget about the thing that brought us together. I'm sorry that I forgot before.

I'm sorry.

i drew the cover for the Klaus Legal / Читай Букварь split LP

I found this old book by @ryannorth in a 25¢ bargain bin. It looked untouched, like it had never even been unboxed. 

More curiously still, the bargain bin was at a lamp store.

I opened the cover and the hinge crackled with stiffness. The pages were glossy and thick – surely many trees were sacrificed for their decadence. 

According to the back cover, books #1-3 in the “Messin’ Things Up™” series are:

Messin’ Things Up (this appears to be the original, with individual chapters on breaking rocks with hammers, setting up tripwires in the forest, and blasting beekeeper’s smoke at more than just bees)    

Messin’ Things Up 2: Preserving Spiderwebs Between Plexiglas®

Messin’ Things Up 3: Throwing Old Computers Into Icy Rivers For The Locals to Find Come Spring

The book comes with a CD packaged inside the back cover, but it’s cracked in half, so I threw it into a vacant lot and spray-painted a big X over it, like Ryan would have wanted.

I was going through my email archives to try to figure out how I ended up here when I came across this old ebook file I'd forgotten about!  I'd never noticed it before, but it turns out David Malki emailed it to me years ago with the following message:

"From one 'follower' to another.... this one's on the house, Ryan!!!  PS: you owe me now.  DM me sometime!!!!"

- "DM" (like "direct message" but instead it's "David Malki"!!!!!) 

David, even though it is years late, I have several comments about this book and your follow-up messages about it (and again, sorry for not reading them until now):

you don't need to capitalize ".com".  

putting # and @ in front of words does not make them 'high-technology words'

no you do not need to repaint that plane every time you get a new follower

no I do not know a good place to get a deal on bulk plane paint

no I do not know whether or not the "plane police" have authority to chase you away from the airport parking lot since it's not in the sky but I'm guessing yes, yes they do

and finally, your other ebook, "Are You There God?  Please RT" is actually a wonderful coming-of-age story about a young girl struggling with boys, bras, periods, AND religion while simultaneously trying to grow her social media reach with high-clickability viral content, and I would be more than happy to provide a quote for that one