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koganbotLatest column. Britney, Bowie, and the unavailability of cool.
The Rules Of The Game #14: The Death Of The Cool
Key sentence: "But where coolness - or any knowledge - stumbles is when it becomes the attribute of a particular class."
So what's been your experience with "cool"? Is there such a thing? What would it be now?
Links to previous columns. (And they've finally added the paragraph breaks to last week's column. Comments didn't make it through, however. LVW got the italics too, but missed them this week, and I'm not going to press the matter.) UPDATE: That link "to previous columns" no longer works, but I've got the whole set here now:
http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html
(Also, here's a link to that Michael Ventura article I refer to, "Hear That Long Snake Moan," about the African sources of cool, and the New Orleans source of everything. Ventura cannot be accused of understating his case.)
The Rules Of The Game #14: The Death Of The Cool
Key sentence: "But where coolness - or any knowledge - stumbles is when it becomes the attribute of a particular class."
So what's been your experience with "cool"? Is there such a thing? What would it be now?
Links to previous columns. (And they've finally added the paragraph breaks to last week's column. Comments didn't make it through, however. LVW got the italics too, but missed them this week, and I'm not going to press the matter.) UPDATE: That link "to previous columns" no longer works, but I've got the whole set here now:
http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html
(Also, here's a link to that Michael Ventura article I refer to, "Hear That Long Snake Moan," about the African sources of cool, and the New Orleans source of everything. Ventura cannot be accused of understating his case.)
