…I sent some really funny ones from the aiport watching writers wait for shuttle, but these were unfortunately pushed out of my outbox before I recorded them…
WEDNESDAY:
To: Rebekah Silverman & Tadd Adcox
Going to walk over to ground zero with MoGa after I get to hotel. Where are y’all? Do you need help?
From: Tadd Adcox
T! J Y! TJ, TJ, Y!
To: Roxane Gay
Can I borrow a copy of Pank for reading? Spent so much time on outfits just realized I forgot my fucking texts.
To: Molly Gaudry
I’m in the hallway and already forgot what room no. …206?
From: Roxane Gay
I’m at a MAC cosmetics. Do you need anything?
To: Roxane Gay
Roxane, Rebekah needs you and is going to die.
From Roxane Gay (re:)
Whhhhy?
To: Roxane Gay (re:)
She wants to see you. We are talking to Matt! [ed note – Siegel]
From: Molly Gaudry
Nail place in Ramada!
To: Molly Gaudry (re:)
Yay!!
To: Meg Pokrass
Roxane, Ryan Bradley, B Pawelek, Matt Siegel, Rebekah and Tadd say hi and happy YAWP!
To: Meg Pokrass
In cab with Kyle Minor, Molly Gaudry, Peter Cole, Dan Wickett and Matt Bell.
From Meg Pokrass (re:)
Using toe spreaders and clipping my nails.
THURSDAY:
To: Roxane Gay
The Lumberyard woman looks like Millie from One Tree Hill. [note — texting Roxane from the audience at her small magazine panel abt person sitting next to her]
To: Tadd Adcox and Rebekah Silverman
Davis [note: Schneiderman] is genius.
From: Tadd Adcox (re:)
Pretty much.
To: Tadd Adcox and Rebekah Silverman
Bull [note: Magazine — men’s fiction] put their flyer on every urinal in the Hyatt mens room. Brilliant.
To: Tadd Adcox and Rebekah Silverman
Davis has somebody binding him with rope while he talks about copyright.
To: Tadd Adcox
Oh shit, crazy lady with big hair. [note: still at copyright panel]
To: Meg Pokrass
Ran into Donna [Vitucci] at TJ Maxx, ha ha. She says hello.
To: Tadd Adcox and Rebekah Silverman
Will it work for you if I swing by booth in a half hourish to take care of shoulder pad handoff?
To: Meg Pokrass
In cab with Beth Thomas, Roxane and Erin Fitzgerald. Everybody says hi.
From: Brandon Will
Where r u at Tim?
To: Brandon Will (re:)
Mercury Cafe
To: Brandon Will (re:)
Tons of people are here, you should come.
From: Brandon Will (re:)
Where are you again? The Celtic?
To: Brandon Will (re:)
Mercury Cafe
FRIDAY:
To: Meg Pokrass
Met Kathy, Kim C [Chinquee] and Claudia S [Smith] simultaneously last night. Overwhelming, almost died.
To: Tadd Adcox and Rebekah Silverman
Lance Olsen just used the expression “language languages” (2nd language is a verb)
From: Tadd Adcox (re:)
That’s a thing. Things often thing.
To: Tadd Adcox
Lydia Yuknavitch just chewed and spit paper. [note: it was the bible, panel on “how words matter,” as in materialize as matter]
From: Tadd Adcox (re:)
On you? That’s rude.
To: Tadd Adcox
Just walked past Sapphire
To: Tadd Adcox
Just spotted Kate Durbin.
From: Tadd Adcox
It was like a band of gypsies. Gypsies with bad eyesight.
To: Tadd Adcox (re:)
Huh?
From: Tadd Adcox (re:)
Go see Buckbee. It is important that you do this.
From: Rebekah Silverman
Tim you MUST either call us to come in or wear something covered up. Seriously. Not Not Not a good scene to come in w/ sequins and hair. Please.
From: Joe [stepdad]
Listen to Rebecca — she is a very smart woman. This place is a zoo — with lots of drunken animals.
To: Rebekah Silverman (re:)
Will do
From: Rebekah Silverman
Good. Your mother and I are pleased.
To: Jac Jemc
Eggs! Text me! [note: means text me tomorrow morning]
SATURDAY:
To: Jac Jemc
Eggs?
From: Jac Jemc (re:)
Yes but I bet we won’t be ready for another hour.
To: Jac Jemc
Facob Knabb working FC2 table. [note: in reference to man closely resembling Another Chicago Magazine editor Jacob Knabb — fake Jacob Knabb = Facob Knabb]
From: Roxane Gay
Dinner Sullivans 8 pm
SUNDAY:
To: Tadd Adcox, Rebekah Silverman, Roxane Gay and Jac Jemc
Sleepy!
From: Rebekah Silverman (re:)
Your mom is sleepy.
From: Tadd Adcox (re:)
Your face is sleepy!
From: Tadd Adcox (re:)
Burned.
MONDAY:
To: Jacob Knabb
Na na na Featherproof
From: Jacob Knabb (re:)
/milk chug
this is pretty brilliant. i should’ve gotten your number. i’d probably have sent you ones about old ladies rolling their eyes at me.
my favorite text message from AWP said “I miss your scent” and came from Jereme Dean…
YAYAYAY! Tadd can sing you the “T! JY! TJ TJ Y!” song. He sang it on the streets of Denver. Now I am singing it too, in my house.
T! JY! TJ, TJ, Y!
Hhaha, love this. Sad: the sudden drop-off of texts involving me post-Thursday. :(
(Not to be a downer.)
Yes, sad!
Holy shit, Tim– We were in a cab together? I don’t remember that at all. Was it the shuttle from the hotel? I don’t remember that either. That’s not good.
Oh wait, it was after the FMC party, right? Whew. I was pretty sure I’d avoided blackouts this year, and was worried for a moment.
Haha, yes.
The cab ride where Kyle Minor interviewed the cab driver about his mystery-writing hobby and career as a freelancer for in-flight magazines, then Molly launched into a series of unprompted declarations about her cab-riding habits, including: “I like to get into the cabs without lights on. Is that dangerous?” and: “When there’s a long line of cabs at an airport or train station, I like to walk to the end of the line and get in the very last cab.”
This was shortly before Molly expressed consternation over a wall-hanging at the Ramada that illustrated “man’s dominion over the Earth” with an image of an American Indian hunting a buffalo, and in response, you offered to explain manifest destiny. Then we ate Papa John’s and talked about James Franco.
Tim’s the man with the memory! I forgot about all these things. James Franco! Papa John’s! “Man’s dominion over the Earth.” Ugh, that painting. What is manifest destiny again?
I actually remember all of that stuff just fine– I think I had just forgotten the cast of characters. Good recap!