Tell me what to write in my next column

[koganbot]

I am in Connecticut for Thanksgiving hence have only library access to a computer hence no listening to or downloading music on it and also all my music is in Denver obviously and I have no idea what to write for the column that's due next week? So you people should tell me what to write about. Please suggest many things. Perhaps I will write about all of them. Or maybe we could do this as Ask Frank Kogan, which was a pretty good thread on ilX once because people kept asking me about things I knew nothing about, and I would answer.

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Write about Britney Ashlee Celine PBS uh...why complicity makes for such a good story, and if there are stories in which complicity has no (primary) role. How come everything's gotta be potentially contaminated before you can enjoy it, anyway? The same certainly does not hold true for hamburgers. (In fact, if someone told me "this hamburger is potentially contaminated," I would probably eat something else entirely.)

[koganbot]

Well, don't know that everything's got to be contaminated, but it's a better story if the badass outsider Hero (I'm currently reading one of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels) can find himself potentially compromised and made effete and ass-kissy by the Establishment on the one hand, or made vicious and angry by the murderous scum he has to deal with on the other. Not sure what that exactly has to do with rock critics, of course, but I'm sure it does.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

"Effete and ass-kissy" versus "vicious and angry" is interesting! And it makes sense that something particularly annoying would be "vicious and angry to please the teacher," though I'm not sure why (why is it more annoying than doing anything else to please the teacher? And who's the teacher?). So I guess in HS parlance it's the difference between a teacher's pet and a bully? ("Teacher's pet" is another of your key phrases that I've never totally been clear on -- in part because I think I AM a sort of teacher's pet.)