Jim D wrote,
including (yuk!) Pokemon
You got to get into Rugrats. We don't have cable
so we only see it via rented videos every few
weeks (you also avoid the commercials that way!).
One could argue that Rugrats is a bit
subversive--as much or more so than the Simpsons.
It certainly is very
I wrote:
But Hollywood
produces dreck (1) because people want
it,
Eric writes:
In other contexts I'm sure Jim could be more
careful not to make such an extreme claim. How
kids, and parents, come to want low culture is a
complex process mostly involved, I think, with the
nature of
Jim wrote,
yeah, tastes are a dependent
variable, but that doesn't say that people
don't have bad taste a lot of the time
(and I don't exclude myself from this).
The key is not whether you have bad tastes, but
whether you feel _guilty_ for having bad taste:
that is, whether you have
At 12:53 PM 4/27/01 -0700, you wrote:
The key is not whether you have bad tastes, but
whether you feel _guilty_ for having bad taste:
of course! guilt makes the world go 'round.
Ah, the good old days. Jim, were you at Berkeley
when the DKs were starting out (circa 1977, I
think)?
Yes, but I
