Lifetime subscription? Only kidding

Dave Eggers, the author and publisher of McSweeney's, is trying to back out of a lifetime subscription deal he used to get the magazine off the ground. According to a typically bitchy item on the New York media blog Gawker, Eggers and Co. acknowledge they got people to pay $100 for a lifetime sub, but has written a note to those lifetimers saying:"We can't tell you how much we appreciated that.