Giuseppe Zangara

He's also very excited about meeting Kotzenjunge. You better be ready, Patrick.

While riding around with him in his truck, he played lots of metal. True story.

He's revealed before. Who wants to see a picture of me hitting the pipe? Agent's not in it, so I'm not sure if there's much demand.

There's a picture taken shortly after that one smoking picture, but Agent sorta looks like he's hulking up in it, so I'll spare him some embarassment by not posting it.

This happened briefly, though we spent most of our time discussing music, drugs and women. Sorta like we do on the board.

This was the second time we smoked out (my female housemate was there for the first time, but I didn't think to take a picture): Shortly after this picture was taken, he proceeded to destroy me in chess, a game I was much too high for.

Agent, visiting a beach for the first time in a decade:

Photobucket's down right now, so I'm using Picturetrail, instead. Here's hoping for no red x's:

We hung out for about four or five hours, hitting up a couple of places around town, smoked out twice (within two minutes of being in my apartment, he was pulling out a bag and a pipe), etc. Pictures forthcoming.

Frankly, I'm a little scared to meet Agent now. Perhaps this fright will come across in the pictures I'll take tomorrow.

A number of people from this board who've listened to my radio show have expressed surprise at the sound of my voice, stating it wasn't what they expected. One person said it was deeper than he thought. Christ, what is it you people think I'd actually sound like.

Dude's voice sounds older than all of us, so no matter.

Okay, so I now know Agent has the voice of a man roughly a quarter-century his senior.

So, in return, I sounded impossibly cheery in the message I left for him.

Agent of Oblivion's voice mail message is very cold and impersonal.

Instant credibility for Reel Big Fish and the Get-Up Kids! Hey, hey, I wasn't saying Papa Roach was good.

Agent didn't call me last night.

Last night, I was cockblocked by a friend of mine. Goddamnit.

Kinetic once said that Will Oldham was a Leonard Cohen ripoff, which is dumb and ignorant and suggests that he shouldn't have any opinions about music ever, regardless of time period.

Kinetic posted in sports threads, but then he was one of those assholes who think good music ceased to be after 1988, so fuck him.

But I'm gonna meet him on Sunday! What's the first thing I should say to him?

I have his phone number, so maybe I should call him and wish him a birthday greeting over the phone.

Except for Papa Roach—who at least had the good sense to do a Pixies cover—The Coat was right; none of those bands were average, they were all outright fucking awful.

There were some awesome posts in that whole Gang Wars fiasco—including those by myself, spiny norman and others—but it was mostly a waste. Many of the people here are absolutely useless when it comes to flaming.

Hey, I went out and had fun tonight.