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| TAC's Dear Thought Leader, Kim Jong-Workingboy |
Do those glasses make me look fat? Discuss, but let's be civil to one another here north of the 38th parallel, gang!
Nothing more perfectly exemplifies TAC's hypocritically cynical flea market approach to selling off whatever contemporary culture it can lay its paws on than it's own premiere special snowflake, the one writer there who brings the eyeballs to everything else. Yes, I'm talking about our own favorite Kim Jong-Workingboy, moderator of all civilly appropriate thought.
The richness of this irony reached a frothy boil recently when Our Working Jong threw down a snappy series of posts bemoaning "special snowflakes" on various college campuses. Not that the targets may not easily have deserved the criticism.
No, the irony was who was pointing the finger: the most fragile, delicate snowflake to ever drift from the heavens to moisten the blogosphere with his inescapable woundedness.
Anyone who has wasted more than two or three attempts at posting anything more than the spongiest of softball critiques of KJW's aesthetic sophistries already knows the criterion used to silence criticism of Dear Working Jong is seldom "civility", the excuse de la maison at TAC.
But that's the beauty of the comment you can never see: you'll never know what it really was, so all you do get to read are those comments selected by Dear Working Jong himself to best pair up with the post he has graciously prepared for your carefully curated consumption.
One can best think of this as the subtle, nuanced gourmet cooking of a fine meal - made with people!
And never a dissonant flavor note to spoil the happy meal.
So, before we bitch and moan about some petulant special snowflake from the Hermit Kingdom intimidating us into stopping ourselves from watching even a sophomoric Franco-Rogen comedy, let's not forget the many little Hermit Kingdoms we already build for ourselves to inhabit everyday.
We far too often compete to become the geese we ourselves eagerly stuff with the liver-fattening grain of humble obedience for chefs like Kim Jong-Workingboy to work their magic on.
And he works hard, really really hard. So hard that it requires an apology to his fans for low blog output.
ReplyDeleteOf course the praise for "traditional publishing" is misplaced -- he's needed an editor all along. And it looks like this editor has had a field day trying to find the pony in his current pile. Also interesting is that his manuscript was "sprawling and rough" but he would have published it himself if he'd gone the self-publishing route.
So, a professional writer/journalist has to rewrite a manuscript that was rough, but worthy of being self-published.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a NaNoWriMo project to me. Actually, I suspect most of those projects would be better written and more interesting.