To Jef leopard ...
Dude, for a while now I have respected your opinion about things and thought you were incredibly interesting and funny as fuck . Unfortunately your review about nick name is such an obvious attack that it has made me question your motives and in fact it has made me concur that amongst other things you are not much more than an Incredible asshole. .

I have never heard any of Nick Name's music nor have I ever heard of him before today at all but I do know that your review of him ruined an awesome friendship between you and I. And we haven't even met.

Anyway, Don't be so obvious about your real intentions next time . . and try and be a little more positive about the other people in your field and their efforts . . All of that bad press makes us all look pretty bad if you think about it, I'm sure you have, you're too intelligent to have missed that obvious fact. . .

In all , I wish you success at whatever you do . . good luck
MDK

Hey, Hot Bad Boy-
The article on Nick was my attempt at a Swiftian satire. Nick is a buddy of mine. I was trying to make it clear that I was the asshole, not him. Everything in the article is true, but one of the juicy tidbits I left out are the fact that we were looking at my record collection we came across Neil Diamond, and the Carpenters and he voiced his like of them. Read through it again. Through most of it I'm saying exactly the opposite of what I think.

Nick is more punk rock than most I know. To me being a punk is more an attitude, a way of living life. Nick really doesn't feel the need to define himself as punk. He does, says, and lives as he wants. I have a lot of respect for him. The whole point of the article was to make fun of the idiots that actually think like the point of view I writing from, and I guess, to poke a little fun at myself as well.

I hope you don't mind, I'm going to copy Nick in so he sees your letter and my reply. I'm sure he'll appreciate ya sticking up for him.

Thanks for caring,
Jef

Hey Jed:
I just read your article in "y" and you are 100% right. If you fuck boys in SF you need to assume at least 1/2 of the dudes you bed down with are HIV positive.

Secondly if you bed down with a bunch of dudes after a night of debauchery...you can't be pissed if you find out one (1) or more of the dudes your fucked (or got fucked by) was postive. Nobody asks that kind of thing in a orgy situation. and you can't expect somebody who is drunk of their fucking ass to volunteer.

I am HIV- but if I became positive I would only have one person to blame, myself. I hate people like that who act all pissed when they find out a former trick was positive.

Well duh, fool. If you sleep around you are eventually going to fuck a HIV+ person. It's the law of fucking averages.

Ok enough grousing....but I don't think it was cool for your friends to blame you and act all weird later....

peace
Tj

Hey thanks for taking the time to write.
I wasn't sure which way the tide would pull when I wrote the letter, so the support is nice.
I totally feel the same as you: I can't/ don't blame anybody but myself for becoming positive.

Take care,
Jed