Rules Of The Game #6: The Boney Joan Rule

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Latest column, in which I explain why everything is everything else.

The Boney Joan Rule

Your own examples or refutations are welcome.

(I'm not back from vacation, but I did find my way to a computer, and maybe I'll succeed in doing so again soon; sorry to Dave, Nia, Kat, and Jessica for not getting a chance to respond to your most recent comments.)

EDIT: Links to my other Rules Of The Game columns

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Susan from Fairytale in Supermarket called this "tacking on" after the fact in an interesting convo we had that ended up being about some of this stuff (seemed in a similar orbit to Frank's "What's Wrong with Pretty Girls" column). I agree with her that this is a common tendency, but I definitely wouldn't ascribe it specifically to what she's calling "poptimism," certainly not as a rule. (Bigger problem being that I don't think poptimism has any set-in-stone "rules.")