September 22, 2003
"Synergy," circa 2003
File under: If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. The Believer busts McSweeney's for snark. It is with trepidation that I even enter the McSweeneys/Believer/"Snark Watch" fray--long is the list of (better) writers who've approached that three-headed dog only to be maimed and bloodied. For all I know, Ken Krimstein and Forest Aguirre are both Dave Eggers (Heck, Alice Munro might be, too), and this whole thing is just another hall-of-mirrors mindfuck that flies right over my head. Or it's a sad case of Dave Eggers' posse being trapped in the Andes, eating each other one by one...
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