I guess it makes sense that a dude who got famous rapping about his love of buying blankets to jerk off into in thrift stores would have a bigger Etsy habit than your average hipster yuppie who shits into a $40,000 glass blown toilet in the corner of their loft, but damn.
A recent Rolling Stone profile on Macklemore ( aka Ben Hagerty) went in deep on his kitschy post-ironic-core nightmare of a Seattle flat with interior design as done by Etsy.
On the ground floor is a recording room with a ton of audio gear, a wall of guitars and racks of outlandish garments spouting sequins, fringe and feathers. “Those are Ben [Haggerty, Macklemore’s real name]’s,” Lewis notes. There is a kitschy velvet painting of a bald eagle, an oil painting of Drake dancing and a transfixing rendition of a naked Justin Bieber with maple syrup pouring down his chest onto a pancake balanced on his boner.” Ben spent a lot of time buying weird stuff on Etsy,” Lewis says.
Here’s the painting, by artist Dan Lacey.
Somebody needs to mackle a little less.
[Image: Dan Lacey]