Category Archives: Not Afraid to Ask

Red Mittens Everywhere

Seri­ously, every­where. Now, I get that there are trends. There have been many times through­out my three decades of con­scious­ness con­cern­ing the world around me that there have been items of apparel that have seemed, for a sea­son or so, ubiq­ui­tous. It seems like only yes­ter­day that every­one every­where seemed to be wear­ing heav­ily ven­ti­lated …

29 January 2011 – 2.52pm | By McCutcheon | Posted in Not Afraid to Ask | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

Last, but almost greatest

Here’s one for the film crowd. I have always been very intrigued by the for­mal­i­ties of movie cred­its, but have never found any resource for a com­pre­hen­sive expla­na­tion of these stric­tures or their his­tory. I could give a whole short cat­e­chism of var­i­ous points I am curi­ous about, but one thing in par­tic­u­lar has always puz­zled …

20 January 2011 – 12.53pm | By McCutcheon | Posted in Not Afraid to Ask | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Justin Bieber

Okay, I give up: who is Justin Bieber? More press­ingly, what is Justin Bieber? I have the sense that he may be involved in some sort of pub­lic per­for­ma­tive arts: is this true? And if so, of what sort? What are his influ­ences, his styl­is­tic hall­marks, his unique con­tri­bu­tions to genre his­tory? Or, you, whatever.

13 January 2011 – 1.04pm | By McCutcheon | Posted in Not Afraid to Ask | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Why more cowbell?

Let me be per­fectly clear: I have no prob­lem accept­ing that there are cer­tain sit­u­a­tions which, with­out a doubt, require more cow­bell. I am how­ever absolutely in the dark on cer­tain points prefa­tory to this. To wit: What on earth does this expres­sion mean? Who do we have to thank for this? Which sit­u­a­tions, pre­cisely, call for more …

6 January 2011 – 8.08am | By McCutcheon | Posted in Not Afraid to Ask | Tagged , | Comments (4)