The cool kids that were living there were not Dov Charney hipsters; they were proto-hipsters who would have been surprised to find “hipster” used pejoratively, like Chris Eigeman in Last Days of Discos saying he wished he was a yuppie: “Young; upwardly mobile; professional. Those are good things, not bad things.
Patrick Mortensen looks back at A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and inadvertently explains why I do and don’t ever want to re-read a book that I loved pretty much without reservation when I read it twelve years ago and was in its target demographic. Opposites Attack | MOBFD. True to form, there’s a “Notes & Omissions” section posted elsewhere. [recursivebee] (via sciencevsromance)
A Whit Stillman reference in an article about Dave Eggers…it’s too much for me. I read it anyway.
(Also, I don’t want to go back & read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius either Josh, for the same reasons.)
(Also, also: it’s The Last Days of Disco. Singular. I’m a asshole.)
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