Dave Eggers (author and editor of McSweeney’s) dictated this brilliant essay in response to the question: “Are you concerned that you’re not publishing as many unknowns as you had been? And killed pieces? Are you taking any steps-are there any steps to be taken-to keep shit real?”
You actually asked me the question: “Are you taking any steps to keep shit real?” I want you always to look back on this time as being a time when those words came out of your mouth…
Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.
Out popped a dozen people in dark windbreakers identifying them as feds -- agents from Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some raced to the loading docks. Others hurried through the front door. All were armed.
"I just sell honey -- what the hell is this all about?" he remembered asking, as he was hustled into a tiny room with his office manager and truck driver. Three days before the April 25 raid, customs had persuaded a federal judge in Seattle to issue the search warrant shoved in Ingalls' hands. But it wasn't until Ingalls read "Attachment D" that he understood why investigators were seizing his business records, passport, phone logs, photographs, Rolodexes, mail and computer files -- almost anything that could be copied or hauled away.Honey Laundering: A sticky trail of intrigue and crime - Andrew Schneider - #
Man, that Eggers.
I really love how vitriolic his response is, but also how absolutely perfect it is. It’s kinda mind-warping to answer a low-content question with a low-content response: guess it takes some real substance.
Actually the quote is part of the much longer response from the link…
http://students.ou.edu/M/Eric.C.Mai-1/DE.htm
…although, it’d be cool if he only said those two sentences.