greenideas

You're alive! Also, happy birthday. 25. Intense. P.S. why is the picture from your post dripping down the page into the Eagles text? That is some interesting interweb magic. Only one book we've ever featured is McSwy's related, btw.

I am, indeed, alive. As far as the interweb magic, TypePad goofed around with the defaults for images *and I forgot all about it*.

As for the McSwy's thing, I knew that. I was just kind of making a hu-mor joke.

Hu-mor jokes? On the computer machine? Impossible. P.S. on the Espers thing- the lead guy from Mazarin, Quentin Stoltzfus, played 'tone generator' on that record. Nice work, if you can get it.

Hi-lo.

I'm a big-time pretentious artsy hep cat. In fact, I'm so hip I don't even use the word. I use euphemisms like hep and happ'nin to describe my hip-ositude regularly. That’s right. I’m so huffin’ halliburton that I wouldn’t bother owning ol’Timbo McSweeney’s rag, because D-rad Eggers isn’t hip, he’s HYPE.

I subscribe to magazines that are out of print after 2 issues. I have for years. And I listen exclusively to music by bands you'll never hear of before they’ve mastered their first albums. I fought a trucker for his hat once when I was 11 years old, wore it for the one week in the late 80's when that hipster fad was cool and then sold it to Pharell Williams for $15K and a ham sandwich on rye toast sliced diagonally. No crust.

Nevertheless, I thoroughly appreciate “The Mystery of Capital,” and would further recommend “The Other Path,” De Soto’s application of ethical capitalism to the problem of terrorism in his native Peru.

K

Wow, that was super-fucking-weird. But almost eerily accurate in its sarcastic depiction of hipsterism- Karrer, what, do you write for Vice magazine? Thanks for that extremely pointless comment.

whoa, kev. where'd that come from? you know i think you're pretty when you're vitriolic, but i've still got to wonder where those fangs came from.

The point dear Kevin, is that although I blundered into the immanently "serious" business of this blogging at 2am, I thought you and the rest of the greenideas tribe might seriously be interested in DeSoto's other published work or perhaps in the work or George Soros, Jagdish Baghwati, Joseph Stiglitz, and Paul Krugman, some of my favorite pop-econ writers.

Although I am a lit guy at heart, and despite my objections to the volume of praise Egger's has received for his "Heartbreaking Work" (based on "You Shall Know Our Velocity" he has an even longer way to go as a novelist), I have somehow managed to appreciate the McSweeny's project as well as the work going on at De Soto's Institute for Liberty and Democracy, all while despising the uberhip.

Anyway, I was suprised to find other people actually read books like "The Mystery of Capital," and even if you struggle with sarcasm and think that all blogging is not a completely frivolous activity, your literacy surprises. I commend you.

K

as the author of this post, but not the meanie behind the meanness, i accept all that is complimentary about the preceding comment, and remain delightfully unfazed by anything that's, you know, not. i fucking rule.

(xpost) No, Kerrar, you're right. That was my bad. Didn't meant to snap. It was one of those 14 hour work days. Becoming more and more common lately. Apologies.

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