13th// Message to NYT on 10/11/11

October 16, 2011

I don’t remember which blog it was that I was writing earlier in the day on October 11, 2011, before I left this message and the next one for the New York Times. I do remember that there was a moment when one of the times at which I published something was something like “12:58,” and I didn’t worry about that being interpreted as code.

Then, I had gotten to the end of something else, on another page, hadn’t edited it that much, and the time was something like 1:13 p.m. or 2:13 p.m.. I confess to feeling afraid to publish that time, and to doing other things on the page until it didn’t say whatever that time was anymore, because Zac Efron was (and still is) endorsing child molestation and I didn’t want another crisis like one huge crisis that happened several weeks ago when I published something with the time that it exactly was when I published it.

I can’t spend my day worrying about the times at which I publish things. That was some, but not all, of what drove my anger on the night that I left these messages.

I can't help the number that the recorder gave to this message.

The title of this and the next post reflect the number podcast this is, not the number of messages that I've left for the NYT.

Copyright L. Kochman, October 16, 2011 @ 4:50 p.m./addition on October 17, 2011 @ 10:14 a.m.