Thursday, March 19, 2009

Gaiman on Colbert

I gave Paul Gowder a hard time for his little rant about the Geek Culture takeover of the world.

But it is a little weird to live in a world in which I can just happen to turn on the TV and see one of the most popular comedians around interviewing one of the all-time great comic book writers, and singing one of Tom Bombadil's songs. I'm not sure precisely when we came to live in that world...
Posted by Jacob T. Levy at 8:50 PM
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Paul Gowder said...

See! The geeks have taken over the media!

(Random musing: I have such a weird relationship to geek culture -- I like some of it, mostly the British comedy bits of it, but things like anime and comic books just make me cringe -- I like to think it's because I select my geek culture on the basis of actual aesthetic standards, but it's probably just path dependence and having an English mother.)

12:10 AM
Sabina's hat said...

Neil Gaiman used to be just a great comic book writer. Now that he's gone on to win the Hugo and Newberry he is much more. You could just as easily have said that Colbert was meeting with noted children's author, Neil Gaiman.

2:49 PM
Jacob T. Levy said...

Paul, so, in other words, we need to add a Monty Python path to this very important flowchart. ("Fans of Brazil consider themselves less geeky than fans of Blackadder consider themselves less geeky than people who go around quoting the Hitchhiker's Guide consider themselves less geeky than people who quote Monty Python consider themselves less geeky than people who quote Holy Grail during their D&D games consider themselves...")

6:24 PM
Paul Gowder said...

Hah, yes! But only if the whole path (uh, except for the D&D bit) considers itself less geeky than everyone else. In England, the BBC is mainstream... and fans of Waiting for God are the least geeky of all. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sticking to that story.

2:29 AM

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