Frank Kogan

Well, I don't really stand by the original question (implicit/explicit) since I threw it out there wondering if it had legs and it immediately fell on its face (or its ass, not sure which).

I guess the vague "implicitness" I'm referring to refers to VG and rockwrite equally, if what I mean is "lots of questions COULD be asked about the social etc." since this is a truism that could apply to any social interaction.

What I've been struggling with is something more like, "do people who write about rock music THINK and SAY they are doing social analysis more than people in videogames/anime, and, if so, are they, and if so, is it any good?"

I shouldn't really speak to the first part more than, e.g., minimoonstar or AG, who know more than I do about VG/anime I'm sure.

As for "does rockwrite do social analysis and is it any good," I would say the answers are probably "sort of" and "not really" most of the time, including a lot of what *I* have to say about rockwrite (here and maybe recently more generallY). (That is, vague hand-waving to social analysis that isn't really that good.)

I have been avoiding calling out problems as I see them in the rockwrite world (which at this point means my peripheral view of it from Tumblr) in part because I don't really want to interact with most folks there when they talk about music (that is, I'm not sure what role I have in "solving" any problems that might arise there as I see them and tend more often now to shut out the convo altogether) and in part because I'm not really firing on all cylinders with it lately. I should probably write something about actual music and see what happens, but perhaps until I do that I can lay off the broad generalizations from uninterrogated gut feelings...