Hunt not the Snark!

[pyat]

bruceb linked to an excellent piece by Roger Ebert about Snark, and why it is not such a good thing.

It's important sometimes to be reminded that it's okay to admire. To praise. To enjoy yourself. To admit to having a good time.

Comments

[catarzyna.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It is good to hear a very reasonable voice. I posted it on my FB.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! :)

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of this was presaged by a review he wrote some 20 years previously, for "Slaves of New York":

The first thing I feel is a genuine dislike for the people in this film - the ambitious climbers on the lower rungs of the ladder in the New York art world. I dislike them because they are stupid and they have occupied my time with boring conversation. It is more than that. They are not simply stupid. They value stupidity. They aim their conversations below the level of their actual intelligence because they fear to appear uncool by saying anything interesting. By always being bored, they can never be passe. [Emph. mine]

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

Dude! I just came across this last night through Scalzi's blog. Talk about lots of things being universal confluence.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Okay! I will! :)