My group the Cat’s Cradle Ensemble is performing a fully improvised off Broadway show at the Player’s Theater, Friday October 27th at 9:30pm. Tickets are selling fast!
When talking about the joys and pains of making art down here in reality, a friend introduced me to Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student. It covers the music industry, but I found it broadly applicable.
We do not live in a meritocracy, hard work doesn’t automatically equal success when we are competing against those who have paid their way to the front of the line. But not to worry Billy, you have time to make your mark in your beautiful hometown of New York, let me tell you why.
A Fishy Suprise
I’ve decided to publish my old fiction on my blog. Here is one of them. I saw a man walking towards a pond the other day, swinging a headscarf, balancing on a tent pole. He was broad, lean, and … Read more
Started reading: Where it Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon 📚
Good cop: Tell us what you know, and we’ll get ice cream.
Bad cop: If you don’t talk, you’ll never eat ice cream again!
Weird cop: in clown suit I prefer sorbet.
First rule of over sharers anonymous—tell everyone.
Found my plant at the Brooklyn botanical garden.
Finished reading: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu 📚
Brilliant razor blade dissections of what it feels like to live in the world right now.
Them: “Oh, you play in an Orchestra! That’s so cool”
Me: “Yeah, well, I play kazoo”
Them: “That’s still pretty cool”
Me: “THIRD CHAIR”
Just got my COVID booster and flu shot 💉 💪
Sunset Park goes hard for Halloween 🎃
Started reading: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu 📚
New product idea: Glass Paper. It’s sand paper…from the future.
New website idea: Mustard seed Wikipedia, a Christian condiment reference, by the community.
New horror novel: Krampus Clamps a Close-pin, wherein the titular Christmas terror smells something bad. 800 pages, minimum.
Children’s book idea: Pimento Clementi Learns to Loofah, wherein the titular Pimento, a young, well-heeled boogie-boy, discovers exfoliation.
Bladder report: if I pee right before I leave, I’ll have to pee again before I arrive.
Finished reading: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚
TIL if the data that a GraphQL query is looking for has multiple types, the entire object will be removed. This is communicated via a non-halting warning, letting the “Can’t find the object” error blow up. Spent too much time debugging the error before noticing the warning 🙄
From Luke Planet’s No One Actually Wants Simplicity
I think a good test of whether you truly love simplicity is whether you are able to remove things you have added, especially code you’ve written, even when it is still providing value, because you realise it is not providing enough value.
Just played Cage Match at Caveat with Loose Corn. Thanks to Max, the two out of towners, and the Kaplan Brothers. For anyone outside the NYC improv scene this has been an impenetrable word salad.
On the way to Utica to perform in the Uptown improv festival. There have been the expected number of bits in the car.
Apple Maps is having a day.
Had a wonderful time visiting my friend Zach and his family in Chicago. I’m the one who looks like he smells a fart.
Did a little dress up with my friend’s five year old son’s hat and tie. It’s the first time my head has ever looked big, and the last time I’ll have my dignity.
