Time to waste

From “Joe Gould’s Secret” – Up In The Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

I was young then, and much more courteous to older people–and to everyone else, for that matter, as I look back on it–than I should have been. Also I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time–time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

Meat is monetizing

This is a profile I wrote for a storytelling class. It was kind of written as a joke, about a joke. In Real Life, my friend Thomas is one chill dude, and makes good music.

Thomas White woke up Saturday morning in the bathroom sink of his East Village apartment. He vaguely remembered playing a show the night before with Meat Children, one of eight bands in which he is a member. Among the rest, The Money Shot Band, which pays melodic homage to Internet shock porn memes; Previously On Lost, which lyrically recaps episodes of ABC’s Lost; and Berzerkulosis, a sock-puppet hip-hop duo. He is a compulsive dabbler, and thinks that this means he has a greater chance of making money out of making music.

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