Billy McFarland & how to go from eating a sad cheese sandwich to post-party lobster roll
New York Times reports "Billy McFarland Is Out of Jail and Ready for His Next Move" in an exclusive interview with McFarland, who was convicted of selling fraudulent festival tickets at $12,000 a pop.
In case you're out of your free 10 New York Times articles for the month, here are the highlights.
“Is this technically Dumbo?”
Brooklyn detention center
Kind of nice
Organizing the Fyre Festival
Coachella-for-the-Bahamas affair
Elizabeth Holmes of party promoters
Four years in prison
Posing for a New York Times photographer
Help of a publicist
Post-prison lean
Little money in the bank
Entire wardrobe is from 2016
“There’s a reason there’s only one photograph of that”
Uber to his small second-floor apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood
“Was this street terrible years ago?”
Paid by “family and friends”
Membership at Blink Fitness
Debit card
Airbnb-neutral
Appealed for compassionate release
“Dumpster Fyre”
Gray couch from Wayfair
Mac desktop computer with a Westinghouse screen
Earnings will be garnished
As part of his plea, Mr. McFarland is barred for life from serving as a director of a public company. His earnings will be garnished until he pays back the full amount he owes his victims, more than $25 million.
A lot of work ahead of him
Egg sandwich and a coffee
“Not particularly interested in crypto”
“Immaturity” and hubris
“I didn’t know what I didn’t know,” he said.
Blamed the tech world
Post-house-arrest party
Post-party lobster roll
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McFarland genuinely does sound remorseful and I don't think anyone deserves to live in solitary confinement for any amount of time. Hope he's able to find some peace and gratitude. Lately I've been finding peace in food videos dubbed with electronica music. Specifically, Dance Cheese found on Instagram Reels like this bowl of cheese that goes All Around the World, this Justin Bieber cheesecake, this lit quesadilla, or this shoegaze cheese for more introspective moods. There are also lots of dance-y lobster roll videos too - and even a Missy Elliott lobster mac n cheese.
If Bill McFarland ends up creating a new tech startup, let's ask for post-party lobster rolls. We don't need a sad cheese sandwich anymore.
