Evidently a lot of people read the Huffington Post(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/. And it's no wonder. There's news that's news like Lawrence O'Donnell breaking stuff on KKKarl Rove and 'Plame-gate'; funny and pointed stuff from Larry David, Harry Shearer, et al; considered opinion from the likes of Tom Hayden, Craig Crawford, David Sirota, etc. "Mook" culture is also represented.
I read an astonishingly unfunny, very mooky piece there yesterday by the guy that edits Maxim UK. I don't feel like looking the guy up at the moment and I've never read Maxim (UK or otherwise). It's just one of those things I've never felt like doing. Kind of like making prank phone-calls or bungee jumping or moshing or using the words 'towel head' or ...there's a great big list of things I've never felt like doing. Mooky things. Doofus-y things. "Agro" things.
The piece was a parody smearing people keen on seeing Karl Rove brought low; painting them with a broad brush as 'conspiracy' nuts. Everybody knows people just do NOT meet in private to plan how to make things go their way. That's just crazy.
But the topic of the piece didn't interest me as much as the mookiness. Where did contemporary mook culture start? The current current of mook. I say, like a lot of really crappy things( the Reagan revolution, MTV, Rush Limbaugh, Chuck Norris movies, etc, etc) in the '80s with Andrew Dice Clay. It seems to me he's the main guy when it comes to the rise of deliberate ignorance and narrow-mindedness which is the essence of mook. Pride in not knowing stuff. Chris Rock does a bit on this phenomena in his community. People who love to not know things because they're "keepin' it real". What is this all about? It's really mysterious to me. Kind of like watching cars go in circles as a sport is a mystery to me. Or Colin Quinn's career.
Someone recommended the movie SWINGERS to me once and I rented it and watched it. I've got to think that's a mook classic. A thinking mooks movie...
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I read an astonishingly unfunny, very mooky piece there yesterday by the guy that edits Maxim UK. I don't feel like looking the guy up at the moment and I've never read Maxim (UK or otherwise). It's just one of those things I've never felt like doing. Kind of like making prank phone-calls or bungee jumping or moshing or using the words 'towel head' or ...there's a great big list of things I've never felt like doing. Mooky things. Doofus-y things. "Agro" things.
The piece was a parody smearing people keen on seeing Karl Rove brought low; painting them with a broad brush as 'conspiracy' nuts. Everybody knows people just do NOT meet in private to plan how to make things go their way. That's just crazy.
But the topic of the piece didn't interest me as much as the mookiness. Where did contemporary mook culture start? The current current of mook. I say, like a lot of really crappy things( the Reagan revolution, MTV, Rush Limbaugh, Chuck Norris movies, etc, etc) in the '80s with Andrew Dice Clay. It seems to me he's the main guy when it comes to the rise of deliberate ignorance and narrow-mindedness which is the essence of mook. Pride in not knowing stuff. Chris Rock does a bit on this phenomena in his community. People who love to not know things because they're "keepin' it real". What is this all about? It's really mysterious to me. Kind of like watching cars go in circles as a sport is a mystery to me. Or Colin Quinn's career.
Someone recommended the movie SWINGERS to me once and I rented it and watched it. I've got to think that's a mook classic. A thinking mooks movie...
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posted by Dan at 8:45 AM
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