PROKATALAMBANO'S INS AND OUTS.
Presented to you by popular demand.
IN:
1. Correct Capitalization.
2. Quaint Overcapitalization of all Nouns as though you are writing in B. Franklin's Age or simply in German.
3. Essays with a Beginning, a Middle, an End, and a Point, rather than a Series of Word-Clusters separated by Ellipses. Celine could pull off the Telegraphic Style. You can't.
4. Reading Books written before 200 Years ago, preferably over 2000 years ago. If you need recommendations, ask me.
5. Acme Comics by Chris Ware. While we're at it, also Optic Nerve, Love and Rockets, and old issues of Eightball and Hate. However, it is UTTERLY unacceptable to possess only a Taste for Pop Culture and not care about High Culture. (See Outs #6 if you are still under the idiotic and soon to be outdated Assumption that "it's all Culture" and there is no substantive Difference between the two. We all admit there are gray Areas; but there are also completely non-gray Areas. Such as Episodes of "Friends.")
OUT:
1. The Term "blog," which is ugly enough to begin with.
2. Writing possessing a gratuitously informal Character and Style.
3. The idiotic Undercapitalization and Failure to capitalize any Words at all, as though this be a Virtue.
4. Approaches to Literature that are entirely rhetorical and artistic and ignore the Era and Situation of the Author; to wit, new Criticism of the 1950s.
5. Anyone who thinks that Roe vs Wade is, or should be, or can be, the Rallying Point behind the Democratic Party. Even the New Yorker recently pointed out, in a beautifully written and highly intelligent Article, how Abortion has gradually crept higher in the Consciousnesses of the Left until it has blotted out Concerns such as social Justice and Poverty. This State of Affairs is unacceptable and unfortunate.
6. Trying to pretend that there is no Difference between Pop Culture and High Culture. This Tack is only getting boring now. We are sick of it.
7. A Hatred of Pornography. This is old now, and part of the strident boredom of our next Out:
8. Second-Wave Feminism. Booooring. Sexless, angry, reactionary, narrow-minded, and, yes, we shall say it -- HYSTERICAL. They hate not only porn but sex in general, especially hetero, yet their vision of women's Oppression in America reads like a sadomasochistic novel: the woman is degraded, dismissed, dishonored, destroyed, etc. Boring. We appreciate the nuances of Third-Wave Feminism much more. Also, they enjoy porn.
IN:
1. Correct Capitalization.
2. Quaint Overcapitalization of all Nouns as though you are writing in B. Franklin's Age or simply in German.
3. Essays with a Beginning, a Middle, an End, and a Point, rather than a Series of Word-Clusters separated by Ellipses. Celine could pull off the Telegraphic Style. You can't.
4. Reading Books written before 200 Years ago, preferably over 2000 years ago. If you need recommendations, ask me.
5. Acme Comics by Chris Ware. While we're at it, also Optic Nerve, Love and Rockets, and old issues of Eightball and Hate. However, it is UTTERLY unacceptable to possess only a Taste for Pop Culture and not care about High Culture. (See Outs #6 if you are still under the idiotic and soon to be outdated Assumption that "it's all Culture" and there is no substantive Difference between the two. We all admit there are gray Areas; but there are also completely non-gray Areas. Such as Episodes of "Friends.")
OUT:
1. The Term "blog," which is ugly enough to begin with.
2. Writing possessing a gratuitously informal Character and Style.
3. The idiotic Undercapitalization and Failure to capitalize any Words at all, as though this be a Virtue.
4. Approaches to Literature that are entirely rhetorical and artistic and ignore the Era and Situation of the Author; to wit, new Criticism of the 1950s.
5. Anyone who thinks that Roe vs Wade is, or should be, or can be, the Rallying Point behind the Democratic Party. Even the New Yorker recently pointed out, in a beautifully written and highly intelligent Article, how Abortion has gradually crept higher in the Consciousnesses of the Left until it has blotted out Concerns such as social Justice and Poverty. This State of Affairs is unacceptable and unfortunate.
6. Trying to pretend that there is no Difference between Pop Culture and High Culture. This Tack is only getting boring now. We are sick of it.
7. A Hatred of Pornography. This is old now, and part of the strident boredom of our next Out:
8. Second-Wave Feminism. Booooring. Sexless, angry, reactionary, narrow-minded, and, yes, we shall say it -- HYSTERICAL. They hate not only porn but sex in general, especially hetero, yet their vision of women's Oppression in America reads like a sadomasochistic novel: the woman is degraded, dismissed, dishonored, destroyed, etc. Boring. We appreciate the nuances of Third-Wave Feminism much more. Also, they enjoy porn.
posted by Timo-t at 1:01 PM
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