You probably think you know Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner and NYT columnist extraordinaire. But after reading the New Yorker‘s profile on the bearded columnist, you’ll realize you had no idea. He’s so much more than that. He’s just a simple guy, who relaxes by getting costumed, throwing voodoo parties and relaxing in St. Croix with his wife, mostly on the west end, “where the whites who’ve gone native live.” There, Paul can wear the same shirt for days, (a short-sleeved plaid cotton shirt) and bathing trunks. In the late afternoon he sips piña coladas on the beach and bitches about Jamie and LB, wondering how they can be “so comprehensively boneheaded.”
“Dimon was really stupid this morning,” Krugman said. He was thinking about writing his column the next day about the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. He had read an account of the congressional hearings in the newspaper which quoted Jamie Dimon, the C.E.O. of JPMorgan Chase, and Lloyd Blankfein, the C.E.O. of Goldman Sachs, saying things so clueless, so insensitive, and so comprehensively boneheaded that even he, not inclined to think well of them, could hardly believe it, and so he had spent that morning vainly hunting for the transcript to see if there was something mitigating about the context that the article had missed.
Paul is also a science fiction aficionado and loves to attend conventions, where there are a lot of extremely long hair, a lot of blue hair and a lot of capes.
There was a woman dressed as a cat, there was a woman with a green brain attached to her head with wire, there was a person in a green face mask, there was a young woman spinning wool. There was a Jedi and a Storm Trooper.
When he’s not on the beach or surrounded by green brain caped-people, Paul likes to play dress-up, we learn, as he really likes costumes. Once, he gave a Halloween party where the theme -crazy guy that he is- was economics topics! So guests came as Asian tigers, several came as hedge funds, (how does that work?) one woman even came as capital, dressed as a column.
He also had a voodoo-themed election party at his place. “We had two or three TVs set up and we had a little portable outside fire pit and we let people throw in an effigy or whatever they wanted to get rid of for the past eight years.” But, although this tidbit titillates our imagination, Paul doesn’t mention what he threw in.
pointless article
@1 it was entertaining.
Boring, Yaelie. Refer to recent TG posts by Bess on how do a REAL takedown.
@3 or any of BL stories…
The theme of one of the Krugmans’ recent masques was our emotional reality. Guests were instructed to dress as the personification of an emotion. I showed up naked with a Bosc duct-taped to my hog. I could tell Robin was impressed. She asked me: “What … ? What … on earth …?”
And I told her, “I’m fuckin’ dis pear.”
- not Jeff Macke but a fan of his work
Didn’t he also star in the hit 70′s sitcom, The Odd Couple?
Pussy.
I just can’t imagine how many times this guy got the ever-loving sh*t beat outa him growing up to make him such a whiney, emasculated, super-liberal pole-smoker. Sheesh, beard.
Did she mean a voodoo-themed erection?
I take it there are no extradition right with St Croix
When you all get your Nobels your criticisms will be of a little more value I suppose.
I wonder how much pussy he is getting at St Croix. I bet he gets it three times a week. Maybe someone can draw a supply and demand curve.
I wonder how much pussy he is getting at St Croix. I bet he gets it three times a week. Maybe someone can draw a supply and demand curve.
Man, if I was him I’d be taking a break on tapping all that financial groupie ass in St. Croix or anywhere else. It can get away from you. Man, can it get away from you.
~T. Woods
Twentynine Palms, CA
I take it there are no extradition right with St Croix
I take it there are no extradition right with St Croix
Glad to see all the Enron consulting fees put to good use.
Lacking originality, Paul.
http://www.leveragedsellout.com/2007/10/banker-halloween-party/
@18/LA please see my comment above.
-5
“voodoo-themed election party”=racist.
@ 11
Or if recent laureates (Barry O & Krugman in particular) are any indication, you instantly morph into and even more insufferable twat than you were before. Typically this change is accompanied by the wholesale abdication of reason & logic in favor of chronic whining underpinned by the presumption that your ill-concieved mental abortions should be emphatically embraced on spec.
@3&4
I was going to link to the Observer slideshow so that the two of you could print out her picture and use it as masturbatory fodder, but I’m sorry to inform you that the picture no longer appears to be available. Instead, you guys might want to consider wrestling one another over who likes her more (or perhaps Bess Levin trivia..I’m just tossing out the ideas) with the provision that the loser wears a brunette wig while enthusiastically giving the winner head (maybe in exchange for a gratuitous hand job). Regardless of the outcome, you’ll each leave the experience having been introduced to sexual gratification by means of something less familiar and quite possibly more satisfying than your own hand. Think of it as an adventure in self-growth, and good luck!
19,
Ha! Nice. I shot from the hip on that one.
I think Stanley O’Neil axing the turd is forever embedded in my conscious. Good times.
@11- You are not welcome here.
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