diff --git a/src/subscriber/coop_eventlet.py b/src/subscriber/coop_eventlet.py
index 87e599f..83d862c 100644
--- a/src/subscriber/coop_eventlet.py
+++ b/src/subscriber/coop_eventlet.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from argparse import ArgumentParser
 import eventlet
 import logging
 import os
-from eventlet.green import socket
+import socket
 import sys
 import cPickle as pickle
 
@@ -34,21 +34,28 @@ def main(argv=None):
     print args
     # application 
     address = ('localhost', 8010)
+    eventlet.spawn_n(subscriber, address)
     while True:
-        subscriber(address)
         eventlet.sleep(1)
 
 def subscriber(address):
-    try:
-        LOG.info("connecting to %s", address)
-        cx = eventlet.connect(address)
-    except socket.error, e:
-        LOG.error("%i %s", e.errno, e)
-        return
     while True:
-        s = cx.recv(4096)
-        item = pickle.loads(s)
-        LOG.info("%s", item)
+        while True:
+            try:
+                LOG.info("connecting to %s", address)
+                cx = eventlet.connect(address)
+                break
+            except socket.error, e:
+                LOG.error("%i %s", e.errno, e)
+                eventlet.sleep(1)
+        while True:
+            s = cx.recv(4096)
+            if len(s) == 0:
+                LOG.error("connection broken")
+                break
+            item = pickle.loads(s)
+            LOG.info("%s", item)
+        cx.close()
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':