{"id":346,"date":"2003-07-16T11:21:29","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T18:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2012-05-05T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T17:06:50","slug":"oh-for-the-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/07\/oh-for-the-90s\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, for the 90’s!"},"content":{"rendered":"

SO, I’m reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/em>by David Eggers. I’m not done yet….<\/p>\n

You know, I am always most excited about a book when I’m not done with it yet. Maybe I should always write the review about 3\/4 of the way through. I would be a lot more excited than at the end, when I have already started another book.<\/p>\n

Anyway, one of the parts of the book is how he is making a magazine in the ultra-hip San Francisco of the early 90’s.<\/p>\n

Oh my god…Oh my god…Oh, the San Francisco Bay Area in the 90s…Was there ever a Nirvana or Shangri-La like that one? Oh, how wonderful it was!<\/p>\n

I moved there in 95. It was ELECTRIFYING ! It was INCREDIBLE! everything was possible. the world was about the be flipped like a pancake, taking us from the gooey-sticky, bubbling side to the beautiful, crisp brown smooth side!<\/p>\n

Start-ups, all kinds, money coming from the SKY (aka venture capitalists). I think I would have gone the entireity of my life and not known what a venture capitalist was, if I had not moved to the Bay area.<\/p>\n

Oh it was wonderful! We were riding the wave, and the wave had no end. There was no limit.<\/p>\n

Of course there was no limit! I thought I told you that we won’t stop thought I told you…What…why are you stopping?<\/p>\n

Because it did. All those highly paid consultants that were my friends, the ones who swore they would never “drink the kool-aid” and become an employee are now employees.<\/p>\n

IF they are lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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