By the way, was I the only one that laughed out loud when in a Simpsons episode, the Mad Magazine offices blew up and Nelson lamented, "Tina Brown was just starting to turn it around"?
I've been thinking more and more about this piece. I've been reading Tony Hendra's Going Too Far recently and he talks a lot about how Boomer humor had a lot of really square stuff to rebel against and presented a lot of opportunities for radical acts. Since so much humor, satire, parody, rebellion, etc. has been absorbed into the mainstream - commercials are more and more ironic, self-referential, and embedded - maybe the most radical thing that someone could do today is publish something in print - ephemeral but physical, not web-based, meant to be passed around rather than shared quickly online. I'll bet subsequent generations will be so tired of all this forever online/shared in a microsecond electronic content, that print publishing of a physical item might be the most radical act of this era of all.
Understated Elegance [braapp!]
If we ever meet, YOU'RE getting a hug!
By the way, was I the only one that laughed out loud when in a Simpsons episode, the Mad Magazine offices blew up and Nelson lamented, "Tina Brown was just starting to turn it around"?
The Izod is killer.
We should all send MG a portable AC. Hate to think of all that sweaty smudging.
For a look at a midwestern response to the New Yorker, I suggest researching The Chicagoan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicagoan
I've been thinking more and more about this piece. I've been reading Tony Hendra's Going Too Far recently and he talks a lot about how Boomer humor had a lot of really square stuff to rebel against and presented a lot of opportunities for radical acts. Since so much humor, satire, parody, rebellion, etc. has been absorbed into the mainstream - commercials are more and more ironic, self-referential, and embedded - maybe the most radical thing that someone could do today is publish something in print - ephemeral but physical, not web-based, meant to be passed around rather than shared quickly online. I'll bet subsequent generations will be so tired of all this forever online/shared in a microsecond electronic content, that print publishing of a physical item might be the most radical act of this era of all.