great piece! as always! this particularly resonates with me:
"It’s so wonderful to experience culture that gets to become the thing it’s best suited to be, or to start by meeting a piece of work on its terms! Like, have you ever tried to unscrew a screw with pliers because you don’t have a screwdriver, and it kind of works, but it’s kind of shitty? And then you find a screwdriver and you’re like ahh…that’s right! So often we get mad because things are a bad version of something they aren’t, rather than giving them credit for being pretty good at what they are."
you, my friend, are an excellent screwdriver. did i get the message?
I'm not alone! I was wondering recently if my increasing distate for highbrow art meant my brain was Benjamin Buttoning, so to hear I have company is wonderful. I'm a judge for a classy writing competition (I assume I was asked to join by mistake) and when I joined the panel they asked for a statement from me, to which I wrote "I'm here as the champion of comedy, genre and lowbrow trash, you know, the stuff people actually like" Well, I'm paraphrasing, but I definitely said I was the champion of trash 💪 And I'm pleased to say I've been destabilising that panel ever since...
dear josh,
great piece! as always! this particularly resonates with me:
"It’s so wonderful to experience culture that gets to become the thing it’s best suited to be, or to start by meeting a piece of work on its terms! Like, have you ever tried to unscrew a screw with pliers because you don’t have a screwdriver, and it kind of works, but it’s kind of shitty? And then you find a screwdriver and you’re like ahh…that’s right! So often we get mad because things are a bad version of something they aren’t, rather than giving them credit for being pretty good at what they are."
you, my friend, are an excellent screwdriver. did i get the message?
love,
myq
“Dune II: Dune it Again” 😆
I'm not alone! I was wondering recently if my increasing distate for highbrow art meant my brain was Benjamin Buttoning, so to hear I have company is wonderful. I'm a judge for a classy writing competition (I assume I was asked to join by mistake) and when I joined the panel they asked for a statement from me, to which I wrote "I'm here as the champion of comedy, genre and lowbrow trash, you know, the stuff people actually like" Well, I'm paraphrasing, but I definitely said I was the champion of trash 💪 And I'm pleased to say I've been destabilising that panel ever since...