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		<title>Hollywood, Writer: The Rumpus Interview with Brian McGreevy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alina Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian McGreevy has had the kind of dizzying career assent you usually only see, well, in the movies. At 28, he’s already been a working screenwriter for years and had two scripts* on Hollywood’s coveted Black List. This month his first novel, Hemlock Grove, was published by FSG and it’s already on it’s way to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="lightbox" title="OB-SI431_hemloc_G_20120323011123" href="http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/OB-SI431_hemloc_G_20120323011123.jpeg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-99614" title="OB-SI431_hemloc_G_20120323011123" src="http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/OB-SI431_hemloc_G_20120323011123-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="85" /></a>Brian McGreevy has had the kind of dizzying career assent you usually only see, well, in the movies. At 28, he’s already been a working screenwriter for years and had two scripts* on Hollywood’s coveted Black List. This month his first novel, <em>Hemlock Grove</em>, was published by FSG and it’s already on it’s way to becoming an original series for Netflix<span id="more-99613"></span> — a show Brian is also executive producing and co-showrunning.</p><p>One suspects that had he written his dreams down on a piece of paper as a teenager growing up on the industrial outskirts of Pittsburgh — a time when, according to a friend’s Facebook post, he walked around town with a “raccoon&#8217;s penis bone around his ear” — it would have said: write a literary horror novel, develop it as a tv series with Eli Roth on board to direct, then bring the whole production back home to Western Pennsylvania to shoot amongst the gothic ruins of my youth. Natch.</p><p>You might think you have to be a Hollywood douchebag to make all these things happen, smiling and hand-pressing and compromising yourself until you reach that soulless place where success is most likely, but one can’t help noticing just how uncompromising Brian’s been. Despite overt pressure to follow the trajectory of successful franchises like Twilight and Hunger Games, where the sex is always sexless and the death equally bloodless, Brian has gone on record as saying, “you can pry my rape scene from my cold dead hands.” In other words, <em>Hemlock Grove</em> is for adults and shares more DNA with shows like &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; or &#8220;Twin Peaks.&#8221; Nor is the novel your standard, pulp genre fare. Critics are reaching for names as diverse as Lethem, Salinger and Bram Stoker to describe the novel’s balance of supernatural thrills and true-to-life psychological drama. But this very mixture of literary fiction and classic genre also made the book a tough sell; he burned through eight agents and half a dozen publishers before FSG took on <em>Hemlock Grove</em>.</p><p>I know Brian a little and he is an unusually blunt guy. He’s also a good giver of advice, so I thought it would be fun to ask him some direct questions about his success as a writer and now that he’s a showrunner, the qualities he looks for in other writers. Oh, also about that raccoon penis-bone thing…</p><p style="text-align: center;">***</p><p><strong>The Rumpus:</strong> Your writing career is obviously going really well at this point (mildly speaking) and a fair amount of ink has been spilled about that success. So give us some of the low-lights. (Feel free to elaborate on your role in the Austin plasma trade.)</p><p><strong>Brian McGreevy: </strong>In the summer before graduate school I was “Subject 23” in a medical experiment.  There is an entire subculture of people who derive their income from doing one experiment after another, and each one involves having blood drawn several dozen times so of course the real pros all have veins like junkies.  In the initial physical the nurses were fighting over who got to do my blood draw in this sort of vampiric way: “This one’s <em>clean</em>!”  It’s a compliment I’ve never received before or since so maybe that’s not a lowlight.<a class="lightbox" title="imgres" href="http://www.booksmith.com/book/9780374532918"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-99615" title="imgres" src="http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/imgres.jpeg" alt="" width="183" height="276" /></a></p><p>“Success” as defined by a professional achievement it serves corporate agendas to publicize creates a warped perspective.  It’s like looking at a wedding and thinking these people haven’t had like a million shitty or retarded romantic milestones before this one you happen to be doing the Chicken Dance at.</p><p>But one thing that was pretty awesome was getting my first studio gig one week before the writer’s strike of 2007, which meant not being able to get paid for four months.  I had to get a job as a barista in this chi-chi south Austin market to pay rent with a contract from Fox sitting in a shoebox in my closet.  The market was called Cissi’s.  Think about that phonetically.  This was definitely a highlight for my friends, so it’s all relative.</p><p><strong>Rumpus: </strong>There’s a lot of hand-wringing that goes on regarding the worth of MFA programs for writers. Whenever we’ve chatted, you’ve spoken highly of your program and especially your cohort at the Michener Center, but you’re also probably mindful of the ton of writers who graduate from professional writing programs each year and can’t get any traction. There’s a school of thought that goes: Fuck writing programs and get out of the fishbowl, living life is more important. What’s your advice to aspiring writers?</p><p><strong>McGreevy: </strong>I’ve heard it said that you’ve experienced enough love, joy, terror, etc. by the time you’re five years old to understand the full spectrum of human experience, and I subscribe to this.  I believe the answer to this question is “live authentically.”  If the idea of going to a graduate school for writing makes you want to stick your head in the oven, then don’t.  You can develop your truest voice anywhere.  I happen to have been at my program at an exceptional time—three of my friends, none of whom had any nepotistic connection to the publishing industry, made major book deals in the last year.  They say it’s “who you know,” but the only people we knew was each other.  (Also, any time someone starts talking about how it’s who you know or the System is rigged or whatever, shove that person in front of the A train before that toxic, defeatist bullshit gets into your head.)</p><p>Just be yourself.  I realize I’m quoting the genie from <em>Aladdin</em>, but it’s good advice.  I also recommend being bad at compromise.  The two great fears about MFA programs are 1) that they have a tendency to homogenize fiction, and 2) it makes teaching as a safety net too appealing (which is to say, teaching in lieu of actually producing, as opposed to subsidizing same).  These are valid criticisms, and I wouldn’t claim to be the final authority on them.  But at the same time there is something wonderful about an environment that privileges the transaction of <em>ideas.</em>  As someone who works in Hollywood I left the fishbowl for the USS <em>Indianapolis, </em>but came into it with a very strong sense of my own identity and values.  Or at least the faculty to hear “No” as “I fuckin’ dare you.”</p><p><strong>Rumpus:</strong> You got your film agent and manager while you were still in grad school. How did that come about? There are a lot of writers pinging queries into bottomless inboxes out there — even writers from good programs — did you do something magical to ensure the Odds Would be Ever in Your Favor?</p><p><strong>McGreevy: </strong>To start, a tangent, because this calls back to my distaste for people talking in conspiratorial ways about “the System.”  Right now we are in the process of casting, which is quite brutal and can only give you huge amounts of empathy for what actors go through (said as the guy sitting stone-faced on the couch with a cup of coffee as you are making your soul naked).  But I’ve learned a dirty and highly controversial secret about casting—it’s a meritocracy.  There is a consensus about the best person for the part almost immediately, and generally a stressful negotiation ensues because this person will be in demand because of their ability.  But this entails the juice to get yourself into the room, under these godawful conditions.</p><p>Writing is no different.  If you are good, and patient, you will eventually have a career.  This is a categorical truth.  Being a novelist and being a Hollywood screenwriter are both, statistically speaking, spectacularly unlikely, and yet half the contacts in my phone are either one or the other.  Patience is really the thing, because how good you are is between you and your god.  In Buddhism they tell you that examining your spiritual practice more than once every ten years is just navel gazing.  I promise you Cinderella’s wedding was annulled after the honeymoon.  Getting paid to do your art is a blessing, one of the great blessings in life, but it demands that much more of you because of it.</p><p>Tangent over.  The magical thing I did was enter a script I wrote with my screenwriting partner Lee Shipman into the Nicholl competition.  We didn’t win, but got our manager’s attention through it.  And then when it went out, it proceeded to not sell, and yet now (five years later) has a major name attached to it and will probably be our next film deal.  Or not.  Patience.  It’s the worst!</p><p><strong>Rumpus: </strong>There’s been this perceived wisdom about Hollywood that you have to conform to its standards because nobody wants to try anything untested and “derivative” is always the word of the day.  Yet, you’ve gotten very far, very fast by staying true to your vision. With the proliferation of niches growing for all manner of TV and movies, do you feel like power is shifting to the side of the creators? Or has it been there all along and writers are just scared?</p><p><strong>McGreevy:</strong> If you always put out on the first date you will have a much easier time getting dates than respect.  Compromising yourself for what you perceive someone else’s expectations are is always a mistake.  Granted, I’m a fairly conspicuous Gnostic: I believe that God’s power is manifest in all of us.  Look into the mirror and say Namaste until you’re ready to kick the world in its fucking balls.</p><p><strong>Rumpus: </strong>As the Netflix series based on your novel, <em>Hemlock Grove</em>, goes into production, you must be under a lot of pressure to produce. What’s your writing routine like?</p><p><strong><a class="lightbox" title="03-28-35_brian-mcgreevy_420" href="http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/03-28-35_brian-mcgreevy_420.jpeg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-99616" title="03-28-35_brian-mcgreevy_420" src="http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/03-28-35_brian-mcgreevy_420-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="134" /></a>McGreevy: </strong>Well, right now I’m alternating between doing this interview and checking out Twitter responses to the graphic novel instead of working, so clearly my focus is the envy of a laser’s.  Typically my routine is to write in the morning, because I know my own slatternly tendencies well enough that this is the best insurance against not putting it off indefinitely.  But these days much of my responsibility is managerial, so it requires parceling out space much more than when I was just writing free-lance.  Recently I was talking to a friend on the phone and told her I had to jump off because I was going into the office and she started laughing hysterically.  To be frightfully honest, I’m still figuring out the balance of my writing with a grown-up job.  Albeit a grown-up job that consists of playing with robotic dog puppets at a monster factory.</p><p><strong>Rumpus: </strong>Although you are still a writer, you’ve also become a gatekeeper of sorts, at least in terms of staffing your own show. What do you look for in a script and how important is a writer’s own back story when you’re deciding who to hire?</p><p><strong>McGreevy:</strong> I look for a voice and story sense.  It’s not any more mysterious than that, and you’d be surprised how infrequently you encounter both in adequate supply.  (Wit is also highly valuable, especially in drama.)  As far as biography, its only relevance is in relation to function.  For example, the first writer we hired was a woman out of the New York theatre scene, and she was headhunted to bring very specific qualities to the project (we saw her role as our Teenage Girl Psychodrama Czar).  We also discovered, generally, an inverse curve between a writer’s network experience and how well they’d adapt to this environment.  We’re going for an entirely different mode of storytelling – amongst ourselves we keep calling it our 13 hour independent movie – than the traditional four-act structure of a network one hour where you need some kind of major sting every ten minutes to make sure people don’t change the channel between commercials.  In form what we’re doing is much closer to a cinematic novel than traditional series, and the beauty of Netflix is that the expectation is that people will be consuming major chunks at a time, allowing a greater degree of trust in the audience.  But ultimately what almost superseded samples and was certainly of greater importance than CV was chemistry.  I’ve been working with Lee (who is co-showrunner) for a number of years at this point, so we have a specific but at the same time largely intangible set of criteria of what we look for in collaborators.  It’s such a fortuitous thing that Eli responded to the material, because we’re all so much on the same wavelength about what this project is; it’s the same thing as forming a band, so much of it is just the fickle finger of fate.</p><p><strong>Rumpus:</strong> There has been much chatter lately about the emergence of the “literary genre novel.” But weirdly, this moniker only seems to apply to writers like Chabon and Whiteshead who only swung toward genre once their literary cred was established. A writer like Stephen King, who has always been genre (and has only in recent years been celebrated as a ‘serious’ writer) seems exempt from this conversation. Do you think there some kind of snobbery at work here? Is the “literary fiction” section of the bookstore bullshit?</p><p><strong>McGreevy:</strong> I guess I don’t care.  I live in Los Angeles, not Brooklyn; this is a town where TWILIGHT fan fiction erotica just sold for 3,000,000 dollars.  Why not?  America is the greatest country in history.  I’m an artist, I’m just blessed to have people have some kind of emotional reaction to my work.</p><p><strong>Rumpus: </strong>Bonus question: Care to explain why you walked around with a raccoon&#8217;s penis bone around your ear as a fourteen year-old?</p><p><strong>McGreevy:</strong> Obviously this was the secret of my popularity in high school.</p><p>_________________</p><p>*  Brian&#8217;s two movie scripts were co-authored with his writing partner, Lee Shipman.<br /><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:</h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href='http://therumpus.net/2012/01/late-bloomers/' title='For the Late Bloomers'>For the Late Bloomers</a></li><li><a href='http://therumpus.net/2011/10/still-bored-to-death-2/' title='Still Bored To Death'>Still Bored To Death</a></li><li><a href='http://therumpus.net/2011/09/netflix-roundup-2/' title='Netflix Roundup #2'>Netflix Roundup #2</a></li><li><a href='http://therumpus.net/2011/09/tvs-backwards-progress/' title='TV&#8217;s Backwards Progress'>TV&#8217;s Backwards Progress</a></li><li><a href='http://therumpus.net/2011/07/aggregators-always-win/' title='Aggregators Always Win'>Aggregators Always Win</a></li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chats with Random Men #15: Fakhir</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alina Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alina Simone becomes the target of a globe-encompassing beam of love in this edition of Chats with Random Men.9:23am FakhirHi10:52am FakhirHi my prettty darling11:28am Fakhirهاوڕێیان سەلامی خواتان لێبێت11:31am Alinahuh?11:31am Fakhirmeans hi how r u ?11:32am AlinaWow, and here I was thinking it was a procession of schizophrenic ants!11:35am Fakhirhhhhhhhhhhhwys up?wts going on?11:39am AlinaSorry. I&#8217;m fine. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alina Simone becomes the target of a globe-encompassing beam of love in this edition of Chats with Random Men.<span id="more-84112"></span></p><p><strong>9:23am Fakhir<br /></strong>Hi</p><p><strong>10:52am Fakhir</strong><br />Hi my prettty darling</p><p><strong>11:28am Fakhir</strong><br />هاوڕێیان سەلامی خواتان لێبێت</p><p>11:31am<strong> Alina</strong><br />huh?<br /><strong><br />11:31am Fakhir</strong><br />means hi how r u ?<br /><strong><br />11:32am Alina</strong><br />Wow, and here I was thinking it was a procession of schizophrenic ants!<br /><strong><br />11:35am Fakhir</strong><br />hhhhhhhhhhh<br />wys up?<br />wts going on?<br /><strong><br />11:39am Alina</strong><br />Sorry. I&#8217;m fine. How are you?</p><p><strong>11:40am Fakhir</strong><br />same my dear. i sent my salutations several times but there was no answer. i felt sorry for myself.<br /><strong><br />11:42am Alina</strong><br />Wow. I&#8217;m sorry to hear that, Fakhir.<br /><strong><br />11:42am Fakhir</strong><br />I was crying till now.<br />weeping<br />I thought may be you are angry with again<br /><strong><br />11:44am Alina</strong><br />Fakhir, Jesus dear man, pull yourself together!<br />After all, I&#8217;m just a bunch of pixels that you&#8217;ve never even met&#8230;<br /><strong><br />11:51am Fakhir</strong><br />I love you sooooooo much my pretty darling. forget about it you are alone everything for me.<br />Don&#8217;t say that please you are very honoruoble.<br /><strong><br />12:03pm Alina</strong><br />Fakhir&#8230; we have to talk.<br />Not only do I live in the United States, but I&#8217;m also married. Plus? I don&#8217;t know you.<br /><strong><br />12:04pm Fakhir</strong><br />what do you mean?<br /><strong><br />12:04pm Alina</strong><br />Which of these statements confused you?<br /><strong><br />12:05pm Fakhir</strong><br />I dont know<br />none of them, JUST because I said I love ?<br />please dont get me wrong, i love everybody in this world.<br /><strong><br />12:11pm Alina</strong><br />Oh, well in that case, we&#8217;re fine! I didn&#8217;t realize I was the target of a globe-encompassing beam of love.<br /><strong><br />12:14pm Fakhir</strong><br />I have a very srong and passionate heart, that is a cradle for everybody in this world, especialy those i know, and you can know me better.<br /><strong><br />12:17pm Alina</strong><br />ok!<br /><strong><br />12:18pm Fakhir</strong><br />ok?<br />so go ahead<br /><strong><br />3:12pm Fakhir</strong><br />so&#8230;<br /><strong><br />6:14pm Fakhir</strong><br />Hi my darling<br /><h3 class='related_post_title_no'>Related Posts:</h3><ul class='related_post_no'><li>No related posts&#8230;</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chats with Random Men #14: Osama Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alina Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When she&#8217;s not writing music or books, Alina Simone talks with random men on Facebook.  This time, about Osama bin Laden.12:41pmhelllo aline simone , some one are waiting for you but you are not give me response why?2:18pmHi Imran Akhtar. So sorry to have, er, kept you waiting! How are you? Who are you? Where [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When she&#8217;s not writing music or books, <a href="http://www.alinasimone.com/">Alina Simone</a> talks with random men on Facebook.  This time, about Osama bin Laden.<span id="more-82307"></span></p><p><strong>12:41pm</strong><br />helllo aline simone , some one are waiting for you but you are not give me response why?</p><p><strong>2:18pm</strong><br />Hi Imran Akhtar. So sorry to have, er, kept you waiting! How are you? Who are you? Where are you?</p><p><strong>2:20pm</strong><br />I’m fine dear madam I’m really like you ,<br />my name is imran belong to lahore pakistan<br />I’m software engineer<br />i also know you are dislike pakistanis<br />same as?</p><p><strong>2:23pm</strong><br />Imran! Kind sir! Where did you hear I dislike Pakistanis?!? This is totally not true. How on earth did we go from &#8220;hello&#8221; to &#8220;you dislike Pakistanis&#8221; with such ferretlike speed?</p><p><strong>2:33pm</strong><br />Dear Alina so sorry for late response actually i was taking diner</p><p><strong>2:34pm</strong><br />I have been anxiously waiting!</p><p><strong>2:35pm</strong><br />I heard some people say that pakistanis are bad people<br />last day i was chating a girl which belong to uk<br />she said me I hate pakistanis<br />in fact really i love more those people who hate us?<br />any way &#8230; please tell me what do u do?<br />r u busy now?</p><p><strong>2:46pm</strong><br />Yes, well, there was that whole Osama thing&#8230;a rough bit of PR for Pakistainies, that one. But it&#8217;s not like YOU personally invited Osama over to your home and let him use your XBox and fed him your Pakistani-equivalent to Cheerios and shared a toilet seat with him. It&#8217;s stupid to hate Pakistani&#8217;s for that reason. It would be like Pakistani&#8217;s hating all Americans because we harbor Glenn Beck. Sorry to go on like that&#8230; Anyways, I&#8217;m a singer! And yes, I&#8217;m busy writing to you at this very moment aren&#8217;t I, you crazy trickster!</p><p><strong>2:54pm</strong><br />Imran? Hello??<br /><h3 class='related_post_title_no'>Related Posts:</h3><ul class='related_post_no'><li>No related posts&#8230;</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chats with Random Men #13: Kleber Returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alina Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singer Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page &#8212; here she welcomes back an old &#8220;friend&#8221; in this midnight chat with Kleber:11:39pm Kleberhey quick queztion11:39pm Alinalistening11:39pm Kleberi&#8217;m afraid to talk to people11:39pm AlinaYou still haven&#8217;t fixed your &#8220;s&#8221; key11:40pm Klebersocial phobia11:40pm AlinaOk. Go on.Keep in mind I&#8217;m just a random stranger on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Singer <a onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','www.alinasimone.com']);" href="http://www.alinasimone.com/siteIndex.php">Alina  Simone</a> chats with random men on her Facebook page &#8212; here she welcomes back an old &#8220;friend&#8221; in this midnight chat with <a href="http://therumpus.net/2010/11/chats-with-random-men-10-the-return-of-kleber/">Kleber</a>:<span id="more-71579"></span></p><p><strong>11:39pm Kleber</strong><br />hey quick queztion</p><p><strong>11:39pm Alina</strong><br />listening</p><p><strong>11:39pm Kleber<br /></strong>i&#8217;m afraid to talk to people</p><p><strong>11:39pm Alina<br /></strong>You still haven&#8217;t fixed your &#8220;s&#8221; key</p><p><strong>11:40pm Kleber</strong><br />social phobia</p><p><strong>11:40pm Alina<br /></strong>Ok. Go on.<br />Keep in mind I&#8217;m just a random stranger on Facebook.</p><p><strong>11:40pm Kleber</strong><br />what&#8217;s your advice for me<br />talking to people in facebook is easy<br />but in real life i feel afraid</p><p><strong>11:41pm Alina<br /></strong>You have a pregnant girlfriend. You weren&#8217;t afraid to talk to her! And you didn&#8217;t get her pregnant through Facebook!</p><p><strong>11:42pm Kleber<br /></strong>i lied<br />sorry i&#8217;m really sorry</p><p><strong>11:42pm Alina<br /></strong>WHAT?!?!?!?!</p><p><strong>11:42pm Kleber<br /></strong>that&#8217;z my problem</p><p><strong>11:42pm Alina<br /></strong>But why&#8230;?</p><p><strong>11:43pm Kleber<br /></strong>i just wanted to feel, i don&#8217;t kno</p><p><strong>11:43pm Alina<br /></strong>Aww, Klebes.</p><p><strong>11:43pm Kleber<br /></strong>i&#8217;d love to have a kid one day</p><p><strong>11:43pm Alina<br /></strong>Sure.</p><p><strong>11:44pm Kleber<br /></strong>so what&#8217;s your advice for me<br />how can i become more zocial</p><p><strong>11:45pm Alina</strong><br />That depends on a lot of things. Why don&#8217;t you find some people who love the same things you do? That way you already have something mutual to talk about.<br />Like start a band.</p><p><strong>11:46pm Kleber<br /></strong>i have a lot of friendz that love muzic the zame az me<br />i&#8217;m on a band but ztill i&#8217;m afraid to talk<br />specially to girlz , and find a future mother of my kid</p><p><strong>11:53pm Alina<br /></strong>That&#8217;s pretty complicated&#8230; I know! You could start off chatting with people on FB, then see if they want to hang out in real life. Even girls!</p><p><strong>11:54pm Kleber<br /></strong>another thing</p><p><strong>11:55pm Alina<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yes</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>11:56pm Kleber</strong><br />what zhould i do if i zee every morning a girl that tried to make my girl once but zhe zaid , no, and now i&#8217;m zeeing her everyday in the morning a the train ztation when i&#8217;m going to work, and the only thing i zay to her iz hi and zhe zayz hi too and it&#8217;z done</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>11:59pm Alina<br /></strong>Gee Klebes. I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anything you can do about that. Unless you switch subway stations&#8230; That&#8217;s a sad little story though.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong></strong><strong>12:00am Kleber<br /></strong></span></strong>can&#8217;t the only train that take me to my job, no problem</p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong></strong><strong>12:01pm Alina<br /></strong></span></strong>You could walk to a really far, weird corner of the platform and read a book there facing the wall?<br />Not sure that would really make everything better though&#8230;</p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong>12:01am Kleber<br /></strong></span></strong>thank you, if you want i can put a bag in my face too.<br />did you know that Adolf hitler had a wife 23 yearz old younger than him</p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong>12:05pm Alina<br /></strong></span></strong>Yes. They got married a few hours before they both committed suicide. I don&#8217;t think either of them would be a good role model for you.</p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong>12:07am Kleber<br /></strong></span></strong>Hitler iz my idol, not becauze of hiz ideology but hiz power of conmunication and to hypnotize people with hiz wordz</p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong>12:08pm Alina<br /></strong></span></strong>Um. Yeah. Obama is pretty good at those things too. May I suggest him as a substitute?</p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong>12:09am Kleber<br /></strong></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">not Hitler iz the only one, but yeah Obama got that too</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong>12:09pm Alina<br /></strong></span></strong>Are you messing with my head, Klebes? First the fake pregnant girlfriend, now Hitler and Eva Braun?</p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong>12:10am Kleber<br /></strong></span></strong>itz juzt the way it iz, i&#8217;m good lair<br />ho liez more men or women</p><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong>12:12pm Alina<br /></strong></span></strong>You lost me there with your creative typing&#8230;<br /><h3 class='related_post_title_no'>Related Posts:</h3><ul class='related_post_no'><li>No related posts&#8230;</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chats with Random Men #12: Rajendra</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alina Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chatting with random men via Facebook, singer Alina Simone solicits advice from Nepal on whether or not to feed her unborn child a donut.  10:14pm Rajendrahello mam good morning10:15pm AlinaHi Raj! How&#8217;s Nepal today?10:16pm Rajendradue to winter season its extremely growing cold10:17pm AlinaAh! Yes. That sounds familiar. The same phenomenon is occurring here too!10:18pm Rajendrawhat about your musical [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chatting with random men via Facebook, singer <a href="http://alinasimone.com/siteIndex.php">Alina Simone</a> solicits advice from Nepal on whether or not to feed her unborn child a donut.  <span id="more-68056"></span></p><p><strong>10:14pm Rajendra<br /></strong>hello mam good morning</p><p><strong>10:15pm Alina<br /></strong>Hi Raj! How&#8217;s Nepal today?</p><p><strong>10:16pm Rajendra<br /></strong>due to winter season its extremely growing cold</p><p><strong>10:17pm Alina<br /></strong>Ah! Yes. That sounds familiar. The same phenomenon is occurring here too!</p><p><strong>10:18pm Rajendra<br /></strong>what about your musical journey?</p><p><strong>10:19pm Alina<br /></strong>I have to admit, my musical journey is standing pretty still right now. I did just release a cover of Britney Spears&#8217; &#8220;Oops!&#8230; I did it again&#8221; Otherwise my days pretty much mirror those of my cat. How are you doing?</p><p><strong>10:22pm Rajendra<br /></strong>I am very much happy to know this. its intresting what you have done. my time is passing with the regular duty&#8230;office to home and home to office</p><p><strong>10:24pm Alina<br /></strong>Office to home and home to office! What do you do at the office? Do you ever stop for a donut on the way to office/home? Do they have donuts in Nepal?!?</p><p><strong>10:25pm Rajendra<br /></strong>ya mam i am working in a private organization as an administrator.<br />donuts???? is this a cake item??</p><p><strong>10:27pm Alina<br /></strong>Exactly! A cake item!!! It is round with a hole in the middle. And surprisingly fattening!</p><p><strong>10:28pm Rajendra<br /></strong>ya mam it is available<br />i also like it very much<br />but why did you remember this cake now?</p><p><strong>10:30pm Alina<br /></strong>I am glad that we can connect on this level, Raj. I remember this cake now, because I am pregnant, and find myself very badly wanting this donut every day. However, I am also very, very vain, and don&#8217;t want too get too fat, as I am already really quite fat enough.</p><p><strong>10:33pm Rajendra<br /></strong>Really mam it is amazing that you are that fond of this thing<br />but try to control your weight and fat</p><p><strong>10:34pm Alina<br /></strong>It&#8217;s a hard life</p><p><strong>10:34pm  Rajendra<br /></strong>try to make it simple<br />i believe you will get it change</p><p><strong>10:35pm Alina<br /></strong>Some people think Americans have it easy, see? But look what I&#8217;m dealing with over here! This donut thing will eventually drive me mad.</p><p><strong>10:40pm Rajendra<br /></strong>i think mam donut is fatty item to take enough. and the other hand some of the reason behind this is the baby inside your womb also the cause of this. In our country in the countryside people have a belief the pregenant woman wish to have the things according to the child in their womb i.e. m/f</p><p><strong>10:41pm Alina<br /></strong>In other words, my daughter wants a donut. The question becomes: When is it too early to start instilling some discipline?</p><div></div><h3 class='related_post_title_no'>Related Posts:</h3><ul class='related_post_no'><li>No related posts&#8230;</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chats With Random Men #11: Amit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alina Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singer Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page &#8212; and occasionally fights with random men &#8230; meet Amit.1:56am Amithi1:56am AlinaHello Amit Singh!1:56am Amithw are u?1:57am AlinaYou really don&#8217;t want to know, Amit. I am more than a little pregnant and the details don&#8217;t look pretty when committed to cold, hard print.1:58am Amitok1:58am AlinaThanks [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Singer <a href="http://www.alinasimone.com/siteIndex.php">Alina Simone</a> chats with random men on her Facebook page &#8212; and occasionally fights with random men &#8230; meet Amit.<span id="more-67319"></span></p><p><strong>1:56am Amit</strong><br />hi</p><p><strong>1:56am Alina</strong><br />Hello Amit Singh!</p><p><strong>1:56am Amit</strong><br />hw are u<br />?</p><p><strong>1:57am Alina</strong><br />You really don&#8217;t want to know, Amit. I am more than a little pregnant and the details don&#8217;t look pretty when committed to cold, hard print.</p><p><strong>1:58am Amit</strong><br />ok</p><p><strong>1:58am Alina</strong><br />Thanks for asking though. How the hell are you?</p><p><strong>1:59am Amit<br /></strong>something wrong with u?</p><p><strong>2:00am Alina</strong><br />No! This is just how I am.</p><p><strong>2:01am Amit</strong><br />i think u are in tension</p><p><strong>2:02am Alina</strong><br />It&#8217;s possible&#8230;</p><p><strong>2:03am Amit</strong><br />may be i dont understand what u want to say and why say to me</p><p><strong>2:04am Alina</strong><br />I actually think you understand quite well! Let me try again: How are you?</p><p><strong>2:05am Amit</strong><br />fine<br />are u student ?</p><p><strong>2:07am Alina</strong><br />Nope. I am a singer and a writer and a person who lies on the couch and tries not to throw up. What do you do?</p><p><strong>2:09am Amit</strong><br />i&#8217;m an engineer</p><p><strong>2:09am Alina</strong><br />Interesting!</p><p><strong>2:09am Amit</strong><br />why?</p><p><strong>2:10am Alina</strong><br />Good question. Hmm. Is it secretly not interesting&#8230;?</p><p><strong>2:13am Amit</strong><br />why it is secretly?</p><p><strong>2:13am Alina</strong><br />Ok, is it simply not interesting being an engineer?<br />You are making this kind of difficult, Amit.</p><p><strong>2:16am Amit</strong><br />u are not intrested to chat with me<br /><strong><br />2:17am Alina</strong><br />That&#8217;s not true Amit! I don&#8217;t understand how things started off so nicely and now we&#8217;re in a fight.</p><p><strong>2:18am Amit</strong><br />actually u say me how the hell are u?</p><p><strong>2:19am Alina</strong><br />yes, that&#8217;s just an enthusiastic way of saying HOW ARE YOU?!?</p><p><strong>2:20am Amit</strong><br />ok<br />so i hv a question for u?</p><p><strong>2:21am Alina</strong><br />Go for it!</p><p><strong>2:21am Amit</strong><br />can we friends ?</p><p><strong>2:22am Alina</strong><br />Sure, Amit! I think we already are friends. Or at least, &#8220;friends.&#8221;<br />But it is late and I am very sleepy, so we will have to be &#8220;friends&#8221; later. Goodnight <img src='http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p><p><strong>2:27am Amit</strong><br />ok i hv also some work<br />talk to u later<br /><h3 class='related_post_title_no'>Related Posts:</h3><ul class='related_post_no'><li>No related posts&#8230;</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chats with Random Men #10: The Return of Kleber</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alina Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alina&#8217;s old friend Kleber returns for a random Facebook chat, this time with a little surprise.1:47am Kleberhello turkey1:48am Alina Hi Butt Face!1:48am Kleberlol1:48am Alina omg1:48am Kleberhow are you doing dork ?1:49am Alina I am pregnant. How are you?1:49am Kleberi&#8217;m not pregnant but i did pregnant zomeone1:49am Alina Whoa! That&#8217;s new news, Kleber&#8230;What happened?1:50am Kleberi juzt dont [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alina&#8217;s <a href="http://therumpus.net/2010/09/chats-with-random-men-8-kleber-part-iii/" target="_self">old friend Kleber</a> returns for a random Facebook chat, this time with a little surprise.<span id="more-67317"></span></p><p><strong>1:47am Kleber</strong></p><p>hello turkey</p><p><strong>1:48am </strong><strong>Alina </strong><br />Hi Butt Face!</p><p><strong>1:48am Kleber</strong><br />lol</p><p><strong>1:48am </strong><strong>Alina </strong><br />omg</p><p><strong>1:48am Kleber</strong><br />how are you doing dork ?</p><p><strong>1:49am </strong><strong>Alina </strong><br />I am pregnant. How are you?</p><p><strong>1:49am Kleber</strong><br />i&#8217;m not pregnant but i did pregnant zomeone</p><p><strong>1:49am </strong><strong>Alina </strong><br />Whoa! That&#8217;s new news, Kleber&#8230;<br />What happened?</p><p><strong>1:50am Kleber<br /></strong>i juzt dont remember<br />whoz the lucky one</p><p><strong>1:50am Alina</strong><br />You&#8217;re losing me here&#8230;</p><p><strong>1:50am Kleber</strong><br />why ?</p><p><strong>1:51am Alina</strong><br />What do you mean? You &#8220;pregnant zomeone&#8221;? What happened?!?!?</p><p><strong>1:52am Kleber</strong><br />well zhe&#8217;z there and now zoon i&#8217;ll be daddy Kleber<br />could you believe that</p><p><strong>1:52am Alina</strong><br />Is your &#8220;s&#8221; key broken? You&#8217;re going to be a Dad, Kleber???</p><p><strong>1:53am Kleber</strong><br />yeah !!</p><p><strong>1:53am Alina</strong><br />Whoa. My. Mind. Is. Blown.</p><p><strong>1:54am Kleber</strong><br />why ? how long have you been pregnant</p><p><strong>1:54am Alina</strong><br />Why? Well, because you seem like a very strange man. I&#8217;ve been pregnant almost 6 months.</p><p><strong>1:55am Kleber</strong><br />omg<br /><strong><br />1:55am Alina</strong><br />lol</p><p><strong>1:55am Kleber</strong><br />3 more and you&#8217;re done</p><p><strong>1:55am Alina</strong><br />Good math! How about you?</p><p><strong>1:55am Kleber</strong><br />whatz a girl or itz a boy</p><p><strong>1:56am Alina</strong><br />It&#8217;s a girl. You need to fix that &#8220;s&#8221; key.</p><p><strong>1:56am Kleber</strong><br />mine juzt 2 1/2<br />i&#8217;ve got to buy a new keyboard</p><p><strong>1:57am Alina</strong><br />True.<br />You have a long way to go until babyville, my friend!<br />Are you excited?</p><p><strong>1:58am Kleber<br /></strong>are you kidding</p><p><strong>1:58am Alina</strong><br />No, I am not kidding.</p><p><strong>1:59am Kleber</strong><br />yeah, i&#8217;m excited<br />itz my baby</p><p><strong>1:59am Alina</strong><br />True! Well, I think that&#8217;s great. Congratulations.</p><p><strong>2:00am Kleber</strong><br />thank you zo much<br />Congratulations to you too</p><p><strong>2:01am Alina</strong><br />Hey, your &#8220;s&#8221; key does work!</p><p><strong>2:01am Kleber</strong><br />no<br />i&#8217;m pazting that onez<br />copying</p><p><strong>2:02am Alina</strong><br />Haha! I appreciate the effort, Klebes.</p><p><strong>2:04am Kleber</strong><br />no problem my friend<br /><h3 class='related_post_title_no'>Related Posts:</h3><ul class='related_post_no'><li>No related posts&#8230;</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chats With Random Men #9: Anil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alina Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian singer Alina Simone continues her random Facebook chats with men, this week discussing constipation and pregnancy with a Turkish fan:1:52pm Anilhellohaw are you 1:53pm AlinaHello! Me? Well, I&#8217;m pregnant and can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ve really felt thatwell since week 7. Last night I couldn&#8217;t sleep at all and had to wakeup in the middle [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Russian singer Alina Simone continues her random Facebook chats with men, this week discussing constipation and pregnancy with a Turkish fan:<span id="more-66699"></span></p><p><strong>1:52pm Anil</strong><br />hello<br />haw are you<br /> <img src='http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p><p><strong>1:53pm Alina</strong><br />Hello! Me? Well, I&#8217;m pregnant and can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ve really felt that<br />well since week 7. Last night I couldn&#8217;t sleep at all and had to wake<br />up in the middle of the night to pee like 8 times. How are you?</p><p><strong>1:53pm Anil</strong><br />thanks<br />ı am little speak english<br />ı am turkish<br />your fan<br /> <img src='http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p><p><strong>1:54pm Alina</strong><br />Got it! Well, thanks right back to you Turkish Fan! You look a little like Che Guevara in your photo.</p><p><strong>1:55pm Anil</strong><br /> <img src='http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />yes<br />ı am che guavera fan</p><p><strong>1:55pm Alina</strong><br />I see! Are you planning to take over the Turkish government?</p><p>1:56pm<br />no:D<br />turkey very good government<br />okey?<br /> <img src='http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p><p><strong>1:58pm Alina</strong><br />Okay! I can&#8217;t disagree really, based on my limited experience with the Turkish government.</p><p><strong>1:59pm Anil</strong><br /> <img src='http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />you very lovely</p><p><strong>2:00pm Alina</strong><br />My dear Anil Yilmaz Akin, if only you could see me now, in my pajamas, five months pregnant, more than a little constipated&#8230;</p><p><strong>2:00pm Anil</strong><br />ooohh<br />my god<br /> <img src='http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p><p><strong>2:01pm Alina</strong><br />Yes, better I stare at the picture of Che and you stare at the picture of me sitting on my bed and playing electric guitar that was taken 8 years ago.</p><p><strong>2:01pm Anil</strong><br />oooo<br /> <img src='http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /><br />pity<br />see you<br />alina</p><p><strong>2:04pm Alina</strong><br />Have a great weekend! Eat some künefe for me!</p><p><strong>2:04pm Anil</strong><br />KÜNEFE<br />?<br />HAHA</p><p><strong>2:05pm Alina</strong><br />Isn&#8217;t that some kind of Turkish dessert? Sorry, I have no idea, actually. I totally just quickly looked up &#8220;Turkish Food&#8221; on Wikipedia.</p><p><strong>2:05pm Anil</strong><br /> <img src='http://therumpus.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /><br />okeyyyy<br /><h3 class='related_post_title_no'>Related Posts:</h3><ul class='related_post_no'><li>No related posts&#8230;</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chats With Random Men #8: Kleber, Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alina Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For our final installment of Chats with Random Men, Alina has her third random chat with Klebe, who tells her about his random chat with Robin Williams&#8230;7:05pm Kleberguess who came to restaurant today?7:05pm AlinaScarlett Johanssen? Obama? Jesus?7:05pm KleberJesus!! lol you’re crazyanyway Robin willians yeah the actor i admired when i was a kid7:06pm AlinaWow! He’s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For our final installment of Chats with Random Men, Alina has her third random chat with Klebe, who tells her about his random chat with Robin Williams&#8230;</p><p><strong>7:05pm Kleber<br /></strong>guess who came to restaurant today?<br /><strong><br />7:05pm Alina<br /></strong>Scarlett Johanssen? Obama? Jesus?</p><p><span id="more-62332"></span></p><p><strong>7:05pm Kleber<br /></strong>Jesus!! lol you’re crazy<br />anyway Robin willians yeah the actor i admired when i was a kid<br /><strong><br />7:06pm Alina<br /></strong>Wow! He’s famous.<br /><strong><br />7:07pm Kleber<br /></strong>yeah, don’t you know about him<br /><strong><br />7:07pm Alina<br /></strong>Yeah, course I know about him.<br /><strong><br />7:07pm Kleber<br /></strong>he’s really nice as a person but when i said hey let me take pic with you, he said NO, now vanish yourself<br />i was like, speechless<br /><strong><br />7:08pm Alina<br /></strong>that’s kind of intense, Klebes…<br /><strong><br />7:09pm Kleber<br /></strong>yeah it was<br /><h3 class='related_post_title_no'>Related Posts:</h3><ul class='related_post_no'><li>No related posts&#8230;</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chats With Random Men #7: Kleber, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alina Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part two of Alina&#8217;s random chat with Kleber:7:25pm Kleberyou know what!! here in Times Square people are so freaking weird7:25pm Alinalistening7:25pm Kleberand i mean really weirdLast week this guy stepped up to me with a girl.7:25pm Alinaand?7:26pm KleberHe said that his girlfriend liked me, and wanted me to be with her,7:26pm Alinawhoa!7:26pm KleberI’m like what?7:26pm [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Part two of Alina&#8217;s random chat with Kleber:</p><p><strong>7:25pm Kleber<br /></strong>you know what!! here in Times Square people are so freaking weird<br /><strong><br />7:25pm Alina<br /></strong>listening<span id="more-62320"></span><br /><strong><br />7:25pm<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>Kleber<br /></strong>and i mean really weird<br />Last week this guy stepped up to me with a girl.<br /><strong><br />7:25pm Alina<br /></strong>and?<br /><strong><br />7:26pm Kleber<br /></strong>He said that his girlfriend liked me, and wanted me to be with her,<br /><strong><br />7:26pm Alina<br /></strong>whoa!<br /><strong><br />7:26pm Kleber<br /></strong>I’m like what?<br /><strong><br />7:26pm Alina<br /></strong>uh huh<br /><strong><br />7:27pm Kleber<br /></strong>He continued saying, while your being with her, I’ll be touching her.<br /><strong><br />7:27pm Alina<br /></strong>WHAT?!?!?<br /><strong><br />7:27pm Kleber<br /></strong>I’m still like, Whaat?<br /><strong><br />7:27pm Alina<br /></strong>Then what happened?<br /><strong><br />7:27pm Kleber<br /></strong>same as you now!!<br />He just continues, and while I’m touching her, I’ll also be touching you.<br /><strong><br />7:27pm Alina<br /></strong>OMG!<br />So of course, you said OK<br /><strong><br />7:28pm Kleber<br /></strong>Then I started to look around for some cameras because it was just too weird.</p><p><strong>7:28pm Alina<br /></strong>Haha<br /><strong><br />7:28pm Kleber<br /></strong>I mean, I understand when a girl is stepping up to you like that and wants to hook up</p><p><strong>7:29pm Alina<br /></strong>Right. That’s normal.<br /><strong><br />7:29pm Kleber<br /></strong>But a guy coming up like that<br /><strong><br />7:29pm Alina<br /></strong>So what’d you do?<br /><strong><br />7:29pm Kleber<br /></strong>and asking you to hook up with his girlfriend. the guy wasn’t really my type!!<br />so i said NO, way Jose!!!<br /><strong><br />7:31pm Alina<br /></strong>Wow, Klebes. Good story.<br /><strong><br />7:33pm Kleber<br /></strong>hey i don’t know but that happened to me last week<br /><h3 class='related_post_title_no'>Related Posts:</h3><ul class='related_post_no'><li>No related posts&#8230;</li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
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