The other, other closet

By Pixel at April 7, 2008 at 12:48 am. Filed in a pixelated mind

42. When I was 14, I began my own “Newsletter.” I did it because blogs didn’t exist yet, I didn’t have an Internet connection, I was underage, and I wanted to make people laugh. So I created a four-page document that eventually became a 12-page biweekly viewspaper. It was eventually called the Pix Capacitor… just in case you were wondering what the .com meant.

Demetri Martin dropped out of law school to become a stand up comedian:

It’s weird to make a decision where everyone in your life disapproves, pretty vocally and directly. They said, “You’ve got one year left. Just do it.” I had a full scholarship so I didn’t have to pay for it. They asked, “Why don’t you just get the degree so you can have it?” And I said, “You don’t understand. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do and now I know. I have the answer and it’s dumb to waste any more time.

Most people, when they hear this, think he was being stupid. He could have waited a year and become “Demetri Martin, J.D., Comedian,” rather than just “Demetri Martin, Comedian.”

Demetri: I completely understand. And I’ll try to explain it to the lay people in the audience below the fold:

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