Rome, not built in a day · Jan 31, 04:59 AM

I trust Rome. The man never mentioned a word he didn’t mean and wouldn’t stand up for. You know Rome? Well, if you didn’t get a chance to read his interview, click here.
Rome can joke around too. He’d say something and it was funny, never mean or ironic. I had one of the funnest times interviewing him. Read the interview, you’ll get it. He’s in prison for a while now. He was at Clinton Correctional Facility, just 17 miles south of Canada, but he got transferred to Sing Sing, only a 45 minute bus ride from Manhattan. Maybe I’ll see him soon.

Rome just sent me a letter because my brother Joe bought him the latest issue of Young Philosopher (thanks for the support on this one, I only have 20 left), and I sent it to him with a long letter. Rome wrote a bunch and I’ll share this part, regarding the magazine, “I really liked it, especially the article on “TESS.”...I wish you the very best on your projects and getting people to support it. I wish I could donate or help out with that. Don’t give up, some day, it will just take off. Maybe some day you could do an interview with an inmate. There are some real characters up here.” I will check them out. Lately though, I’ve been talking to the inmates of Manhattan.

Rome wrote a letter to my brother a few months ago, and when I was in Los Angeles my brother was telling me that Rome reported that out of all the dudes in the yard, he had the fourth best stomach. I couldn’t stop laughing because this is exactly how my brother and I see the world. We compete with no one and everyone.

The current report is that Rome shot up to 198 but he’s back down to 175; he’s regained that six pack title and he’s doing a ton of isometric exercises to ensure it.

Anybody who wants to write a letter to someone but is afraid to write, come on, if I’m writing back and fourth about exercises I do, or about a girl I have a crush on, you can think of something. Whatever you think of is life; it’s important now. It might not see that way in a month or week or day, but it is now so share it. I think of Wittgenstein who writes, “If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

— Albin

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