Danielle Berg, co-founder of Slow Century Magazine, grew up in Long Island, and is now growing up in Brooklyn. She is interested in: day jobs, traveling, writing, teaching, psychology, curry, and other people’s lives. She has never tried: most condiments (ketchup, mustard, saurkraut, pickles). You might not believe that she: was captain of the cheerleading team in high school, and once tried out for American Idol. She doesn’t want her bio to end with the words “American Idol,” so will add that she’s generally quite shy, and has become pretty good at photo retouching (someone’s got to cover up all those arms and legs at the Orthodox magazine she works for!).
A Week With Daniel Erenberg, co-founder of Slow Century Magazine:
Monday- He wakes up to “Fade Into You,” by Mazzy Star—the current ring tone on his cell phone. He takes the Long Island Rail Road into the city from Lynbrook and spends the rest of his day at Hunter College, watching TV DVDs on his office computer in between classes. He ventures back to Long Island at 7 for his favorite TV night of the week (including Chuck, Gossip Girl, How I Met Your Mother, etc.) He gets to sleep by 2.
Tuesday- Day off. He sets his Mazzy Star alarm for 10 and watches TV DVDs ‘til around 4:30, when he takes a nap until dinner and his least favorite TV night of the week (including 90210, Privileged, Fringe, etc.) Sleep by 1:30.
Wednesday- Back to school, with a big long break between classes, which he uses to catch up on new music, new TV, new DVDs, or a film, if he can make it to Union Square and back in time. Home for more TV by primetime.
Thursday- More school, as it starts to become more than a little tiresome. Usually ends up staying with his girlfriend in her Gramercy Park Dorm Room, after stopping off at Forbidden Planet to pick up a week’s worth of comics. The girlfriend lets him watch The Office and 30 Rock, but not Life on Mars, because her roommate watches LA Ink at 10.
Friday- He works in the CD/DVD department at the Barnes and Noble in Union Square. He deals mostly with homeless customers, insane customers and foreign customers. Because those are the only customers. He tolerates it because he needs money and he has a lot of friends who work there with him. He then goes home and plays NHL 2001 (Playstation 2 version) with his best friend, Nathaniel Safren, while listening to music. Current favorite players include Stephane Quintal, Jan Hlavac, Jeremy Roenick and created player Jackie Bonds.
Saturday- He gets trashed. Things happen. He passes out.
Sunday- He wakes up from a haze to go back to Barnes and Noble. Even though he wants to go home afterwards to watch Mad Men, he instead must trek into Brooklyn for a meeting about Slow Century Magazine.
Adam Hunter is a freelance writer living in New York City. For the past four years he’s ghostwritten inspirational stories for a Christian audience, despite being a Jew. He’s also written dozens of technology trend articles for a major news web site, despite a fear of robots. In his free time, he enjoys playing dodgeball and beer-league softball, managing Madden football franchises, and summer-ing it up in his beachside hometown. He’s excited to be part of the Slow Century Magazine team and hopes to one day get paid obscenely for his contributions.
Joseph Ireland is co-founder and Senior Fiction Editor of Slow Century Magazine. He recently graduated from Hunter College, and now plans to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. When he is not tutoring at the Hunter College Reading and Writing Center, he enjoys reading, writing, sleeping, television and obsessing over his graduate school applications. He lives in Brooklyn.
Janna Washington is the web designer and the editor of the Visual Arts section. She lives in Brooklyn. She has a degree in photography that she does not yet know what to do with, and at the moment works for her alma matter, sitting in a dark cubicle and doing mysterious things. She loves books and movies and art and food.
