Okay, so I broke down and wrote.

I shouldn't have, I didn't (don't) have the time, I should have been working on my bibliography, but I couldn't help it.

( cut for shameless self-congratulation )

While catching up with bimo's LJ:

This started as an innocent reply to this post in a discussion starting with this post, but it sort of grew into proper meta and got a bit long, so I'm posting it here:



( meta discussion about the legitimacy of paying serious attention to products of 'low' cultural value, which then turns into a discussion of reasons why I connect so strongly with said products )