This morning, while possibly drunk at 11AM, my friend "James" let loose and spoke freely on his feelings on the economic recession and the media, in an IM exchange which had me in tears laughing. I thought I would share that IM conversation with you guys, verbatim. And to give you an idea of how maniacal he was, I'm going to give you the actual time codes of his IMs in addition to the conversation. Each time marker is a single IM sent. ENJOY!:

Me: 11:25:34 AM Katie Couric knows what's up.

James: 11:25:37 who the fuck is she?

Me: 11:25:48 She was the one who reported the crocs shoes layoffs

James: 11:25:49 She's a female?

Me: 11:25:51 No shit. You don't know who katie couric is HAHAHA

James: 11:25:53 what does she know?

Me: 11:25:57 a lot.

James: 11:26:06 i know the name. I dont watch television moron. That's for you and other stupid people

Me: 11:26:11 She is host of the cbs evening news- she OWNED Sarah Palin last year, remember?

James: 11:26:13 i dont know or care

Me: 11:26:20 Not everyone who works in the media is an idiot, just letting you know

James: 11:26:23 yes they are

11:26:25 99.99999% are

11:26:27 fuck the media they're worthless

Me: 11:26:30 if you say so

James: 11:26:35 you only like the media because u don't know or understand anything else and any incompetent stupid person can.

Me: 11:26:40 That's not entirely true.

James: 11:26:48 then why do you know so much about it and "famous people"

11:26:53 they distort facts and bias their reports based on corporate interests

Me: 11:26:57 right....

James: 11:27:02 i don't fucking care about any media outlet

11:27:04 they all lie

11:27:06 and give AWFUL economic news

11:27:09 they can't report for SHIT

11:27:10 i want more failure

11:27:11 NOW

11:27:12 NOW

11:27:13 NOW

11:27:18 I want every person who cried wolf "the recession is ending" to be hanged in public or executed.

Can't help ya there, buddy