I have once again resorted to vlogging in an effort to get attention. Here’s my Vanity Fair piece to which I refer.
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I'm the author of Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny; my second book, Hot, Fat & Clouded: The Amazing and Amusing Failures of America’s Chattering Class (Being a Partial Record of the Incompetence of Our Republic's Mainstream Pundits, Most of Whom Deserve to be Exiled or at Least Have Their Cars Vandalized), will be released in 2010. I'm a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, Skeptic, and The Onion, and my work has appeared in dozens of other publications and outlets. I also serve as director of communications for Enlighten the Vote, a political action committee dedicated to the advancement of the Establishment Clause.
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Hot, Fat, and Clouded: The Amazing and Amusing Failures of America’s Chattering Class
Ah, Rolling Stone–the premiere source for racist rock-history mythology. A mag whose musicologists couldn’t play a C-Major triad in root position on a piano with the keys clearly labeled. A publication which has almost single-handedly crippled the cause of pop music historianship for decades to come via their white-bread rock elitism, contempt for serious musicology, and generally anti-intellectual attitude toward the arts. (“Toward the WHAT?” asks RS.) Yes, I love their politics but their crimes against the study of pop culture has me wishing them to Hell. An irrational, emotion-based attitude, yes. But, unlike RS, I love and revere music scholarship, which they’ve never hesitated to sell down the gutter for the sake of their arts-dead readership. Maybe it would help if our culture were capable of distinguishing pop journalism from genuine scholarship.
RS should atone for its crimes to popular music, stop committing them, and devote themselves entirely to social and political issues. Until that time….
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