LPTJ jumped off the commenting-on-mainstream-popular-culture train shortly after our “Ignition (Remix)” piece, since “Ignition (Remix)” seemed such a clear & genuine high-water mark, after which all American popular culture would surely decline gradually into ruin. And indeed, there hasn’t been much since to suggest we were wrong. Most counterexamples you can cite are also going to be R. Kelly songs anyway.
Why do so many people think the funniest pop star on the planet is the butt of the joke when he is so obviously in on it?
— Outrageous Farce From R. Kelly: He’s In on the Joke, Right?
anthropophagous
Archive Audio Images RSS FeedThis is just a collection of things I think are neat.
A general overview of 'things I think are neat':abandonment/the post-industrial midwest, anarchism (syndicalism, insurrectionalism, etc), race/ethnicity (esp. defining/constructing the boundaries of whiteness), gender, class (talking/thinking about class generally seems to be an underrated activity), health care (access to, the experience of obtaining, etc), art, science fiction, punk music, conservative talk radio and anthropology (which probably incorporates almost everything else about people).
