Marc Weingarten is a Los Angeles-based journalist. He is the author ofI recently had the rare privilege of watching a basketball game courtside at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, near my home . This is the “gold coast” at Staples, the prime real estate where the richest and most famous congregate to watch the game and schmooze, but in the absence of Jack Nicholson, no one famous registered on my radar.
I was covering pop culture in the nineties into the early aughts, a time when it all seemed so much more meaningful and manageable, before the internet revved it all up into hyperdrive. I’m not even sure how I would approach the job of keeping tabs on pop culture now, but I suspect I would be losing a lot of sleep. It takes far more effort now to stay on top of a culture that rips through trends with head-spinning velocity. Believe me, I have tried.
If this all sounds like a pathetic case of OK Boomer-ism, I plead guilty. As someone who has used the best of pop culture to piece together a personal aesthetic and discover new ways of seeing the world, following it in the past never felt like work.
GlobeDebate Bravo! Did same thing in ‘08, when Brittney & P. Hilton were ‘hot’. Thought “I shouldn’t even know their names, much less know everything about these poor girls”. I don’t even read that crap in waiting rooms. So many more interesting things to learn about, that truly matter.👍🏼
GlobeDebate Great read, thank you
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