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Lying with my face on a hotel pillow reading IMs from Chris Donlan: 'It's time to go full gonzo.' Donlan is paying me a fee to take the free iPhone app #Fortune around the world with me to do a 2015 Dice Man. It's an app that uses Twitter to generate digital fortune cookies. Don't get killed, Donlan says, and I sign off.
The maker of the strange #Fortune app is a man called Zach Gage. He makes games and lives in New York City and he only ever wears sandals everywhere. If I were a Male MFA Writer I'd say he's 'a drinking buddy' of mine. I don't feel particularly inclined to treat his game any better. My feelings are that if I savaged this guy's free app he'd still have had a hand in Ridiculous Fishing, one of the most successful iOS games on the store. Maybe he'd be angry on a barstool next to me next time I saw him. Who cares. Maybe this entire article should be about my ambivalent feelings about Zach and our grown up relationship that entails respecting each other's opinions.
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