Ben, you were MADE for acroyoga burlesque. Seriously. I think you should alternate working as a professional pianist/professor/music-person but have intermittent mysterious-yet-scheduled disappearances. During which you should be joining circuses and touring the world with other burlesque/curio acts! Preferably in a harlequin mask, bondage tape, and an obvious pseudonym.
And even if you don't do this, I think I should interview you about it as though you did and then write it up as a fake investigative journalism piece.
You know, after I typed that, I thought that it would actually be really cool to do a series of interviews with my friends about their incredibly unusual prior or hidden careers -- some real, some fake -- and write it up as a series of non-fiction-but-possibly-fictitious essays in a book called something like Secret Identities. So in with my friend James's time as a HALO jumper in Afghanistan and my friend Jen's time as a 911 dispatcher and Gowan's Etruscan metal-working, I'd have your acroyoga burlesque career and my friend Tony's supervillian lifestyle and interview other friends about the supercool things they've never done but always deeply wanted to do -- as though they were doing them.
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And even if you don't do this, I think I should interview you about it as though you did and then write it up as a fake investigative journalism piece.
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I think it could be cool, you know?
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