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"Seeker" to me means a fan, devotee or follower of the late great Ken Campbell. I discovered, with some difficulty, that this was about some US (?) radio (?) s
by lproven 2y ago
"Seeker" to me means a fan, devotee or follower of the late great Ken Campbell.
I discovered, with some difficulty, that this was about some US (?) radio (?) show I've never heard and barely heard of and a couple of paragraphs later, I realised I did not care and stopped reading.
I do not like bits of writing that assume context and don't explain their referents. People who share that context are typically very annoyed by this and feel attacked when I point it out.
Ah well.
- turdlygurdly 2y agoLiterally right at the top of the article: 'Colin Marshall reviews Jeremy Braddock’s “Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums.”' If that's not enough context I'm not sure what would be
- lproven 2y agoWell, for starters, you need to know that "Firesign" means "Firesign Theatre". To know that, you probably need to live in the country where Firesign Theatre performed or was heard. TBH I do not really know what the Firesign Theatre is or was. It started the year before I was born, and I'm pretty old, but I'm not American.
- metalman 2y agothis a phenominon of a niche group, tries to float something as a known thing, kind of cultic in the nasty response to any input from anyone blithly evaluating the "cannon" as distributed by the iluminati. VS, just invite people to take a look VS, groups that know they are fringe, and get on with there fun, like seeing a lifted truck, covered in stickers, and wierd accessories, plasterd with mud and debrits, and one sticker that says "if you have to ask, you wont understand" good enough!, live and let live but the line is, to posture as a universaly known and valued thing, and be no such thing at all
- lproven 2y agoI found that a bit hard to follow first time around, but on re-reading it a few times, you're absolutely right.