I have often cultivated tastes that are a bit out of the mainstream. I’m not saying my tastes are refined or cultured or anything, because my reading list will quickly prove otherwise, but I still manage to avoid by design or accident most of pop culture. To wit:
- I have never read a Dan Brown novel
- I have not seen either Transformers movies
- I have no cable, so no TV — I’ve not seen an episode of House, Dexter or a billion other hip shows
- I don’t know most of the top ten musical acts. I’ve heard of Lady Gaga because some things are unavoidable.
This isn’t really good or bad, just a thing.
To complete this random post, the Robert Zemeckis-directed version of A Christmas Carol featuring Jim Carrey that’s out this holiday season looks really really bad. I mean, astonishingly bad.
