responses to your responses

1. I am totally down with 50% hateration-shots on my court if it's a barometer of honesty (mine own, others'). Sheed, ever-passionate, doesn't try to be anyone he's not; my father, Pistons coach Larry Brown, calls him "one of the most misunderstood people in the NBA."

2. Andrew WK, one of the most misunderstood people in performance art, reads like a Chick tract—a fleshy diversionary tactic writ large (in block script I don't wanna analyze). Quote: "There's no such thing as being fake. How can music that moves somebody, anybody, not be for real?" You can't tell me he doesn't get it; for one sweet moment, right after the release I Get Wet (March '02), he was the most self-aware, focused musician/symbol, signaling grit teeth in the "end of irony."

3. My new fave photo dude, Andrew Tonry, who rocks a white LaCoste with an upturned collar and writes like a mechanical bull with no brakes, has a website.

4. I totally, literally got a phone call from Debbie Mathers today. Tonight, she and Seaminem and I are dining and "partying hard."