Comments on: Bloggers sink their teeth into David Brooks in an attempt to bleed him of indie cred: a vampire weekend indeed. http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/05/27/bloggers-sink-their-teeth-int-david-brooks-in-an-attempt-to-bleed-him-of-indie-cred-a-vampire-weekend-indeed/ Sliding down the banisters of the ivory tower. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:42:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: tkb http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/05/27/bloggers-sink-their-teeth-int-david-brooks-in-an-attempt-to-bleed-him-of-indie-cred-a-vampire-weekend-indeed/#comment-573 tkb Thu, 29 May 2008 07:54:03 +0000 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/?p=90#comment-573 Reference humor is also increasingly mainstream. See: Family Guy (also slightly less frequently and more subtly in the Simpsons). There's nothing more satisfying to the modern-day viewer than that ah-hah moment of "I got it!", to the point where it's not even a joke he's getting, just that obscure 80's afterschool special reference, or whatever. Kinda reflective of a new meaning of mass media- people are watching more movies, listening to more music, accumulating more DVDs of old TV shows... my ex-boyfriend, brilliant physicist that he is, is a living compendium of television and film, thanks to 1. the internet, 2. tivo/tv on demand/etc, 3. dvd sets/netflix/etc. This kind of information is easily to accumulate and is just another example of people seeking out black market elitism now that the valid kind is taboo. Reference humor is also increasingly mainstream. See: Family Guy (also slightly less frequently and more subtly in the Simpsons). There’s nothing more satisfying to the modern-day viewer than that ah-hah moment of “I got it!”, to the point where it’s not even a joke he’s getting, just that obscure 80’s afterschool special reference, or whatever. Kinda reflective of a new meaning of mass media- people are watching more movies, listening to more music, accumulating more DVDs of old TV shows… my ex-boyfriend, brilliant physicist that he is, is a living compendium of television and film, thanks to 1. the internet, 2. tivo/tv on demand/etc, 3. dvd sets/netflix/etc.

This kind of information is easily to accumulate and is just another example of people seeking out black market elitism now that the valid kind is taboo.

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