This blog has been a long time coming. My friend Byron showed me his blog, Trek Is Not A Dirty Word, a while ago and ever since then I thought we should do something bigger. I have never been a hardcore Trek person, but there are a variety of things my friends and I frequently talk about besides that. Hopefully I will be bringing those people in to post on these topics as well.
Things you will likely see a lot of on this blog include: film, television, music, comics, food, beer, Portland, and just generally whatever entertains us. Pop.
There has been this movement to resist the mainstream simply for being mainstream. This pretentious, too cool for anything, hipster vibe that is especially prevalent in major metropolitan areas has become worn, and in place of that attitude we want to try celebrating the good that does come from popular culture. We are not too cool. (We are mostly pretty geeky in fact, which some would argue precludes being cool).
This does not mean that we will not be occasionally critical of certain aspects of pop culture, but hopefully the focus will remain on what we love and why we love it more than the opposite.
So welcome to Pop is Not a Dirty Word.
well said Dustin, i too agree that hipsters both elite and not-so-much have shucked pop culture aside as being trite and derivative, when i have found that high art and literature seem to be recycling the very ideas that type love to jump on to, and i see a lot of ambition and true creativity in the pop-art scene. i won't argue the place that high art and literature take, for their tackling of more serious cultural, political and economic ideas, but to claim that one cannot tackle these same ideas in either a comedy, sci-fi or genre trope is just ignorant to the concept of creativity itself, and is actually very limited in it's accessibility and it's audience.
ReplyDeleteand if you want to attack accessibility you better have a word with mr. Shakespeare.
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