Sunday, May 25, 2014

Piketty, The Musical

"Piketty, The Musical" in quotation marks already has three hits on Google!
It is impossible to be original anymore and very difficult even to be creative.
Here are the three returns:
    Twitter / csandis: #Piketty the musical: ...

  1. https://twitter.com/csandis/status/463315101760880640
    May 5, 2014 - #Piketty the musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg&feature=kp&app=desktop … Reply; Retweet Retweeted; Delete; Favorite ...

  2. Constantine Sandis (csandis) on Twitter

    https://twitter.com/csandis
    More. Embed Tweet. Constantine Sandis @csandis · May 5 · #Piketty the musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg&feature=kp&app=desktop …

  3. How We Do Intellectual History at the New York Times ...

    crookedtimber.org/2014/04/.../comment-page-9/
    Crooked Timber
    Apr 26, 2014 - But Piketty: The Musical is too wonderful an idea to be slain by so banal and uninteresting a happenstance. 29. William Timberman 04.26.14 at ...
Which get us comments at crooked timber (first recorded appearance):
Henry Farrell 04.26.14 at 1:17 pm
Shhhh ….
It was actually one of the required poems on the Irish Leaving Certificate (what you need to graduate from high school). But Piketty: The Musical is too wonderful an idea to be slain by so banal and uninteresting a happenstance.
That had been preceded by:
Henry 04.26.14 at 12:43 pm
DeLong likes Piketty. Krugman likes Piketty. Solow likes Piketty. In the eyes of the world they may not be Very Serious People, but they’re people I take very seriously. What I really want to know, though, is whether Piketty rhymes with Ligeti. Maybe there’s a dodecaphonic limerick lurking there.
Can’t say anything about limericks, but I did compose the below ‘Piketty as Macavity’ piece of doggerel, in the course of a very frustrating conversation with one of the chief proponents of the position that Piketty should be anathematized for not paying sufficient deference to the Capital Controversy crowd …
Trailing more than a week later was csandis who offered up Leonard Cohen on May 5 (happy Cinco de Mayo Tomás P?):


I am coming to accept it's a race with no winners, hell I even got beaten to "Enron, the Musical" by one Lucy Prebble who took it to the West End.
As the young people say: bitch.

Oh well, here's some background on the Enron zeitgeist from Generic Theater who did the southern-U.S. premier of the show:

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