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December 2008 ArchivesThere’s still time to get a copy of The Wine Snob’s Dictionary (nicely written up in USA Today) as a last-minute holiday gift. But at Snob HQ we’re looking to the future. Having exposed the snobby underbellies of Rock, Film, Food, and Wine, we’re contemplating applying the template to sports (e.g. “The Pro Football Snob’s Dictionary,” short versions of which actually appeared in Vanity Fair in 2004 and 2005) and/or race, religion, and ethnicity (e.g., the as-yet-unwritten “Black Snob’s Dictionary,” “Jewish Snob’s Dictionary” and “Irish-American Snob’s Dictionary”). In every area of cultural and social inquiry, there is a deep seam of snobbery that is waiting to be tapped and exploited. Let us know what you’d like to read next, including Snob’s Dictionaries not proposed above. December 19, 2008 More Declamations »
...that is, until we get our act together to sell our own line (which will eventually happen). The design above is available, along with similarly cheeky offerings, from Diesel Sweeties. December 05, 2008 More Rock Snobbery »
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Ramone, Dee Dee. Junkie bassist and principal songwriter of the Ramones, né Douglas Colvin, who, more than nice Jewish boy Joey Ramone or arch-Republican Johnny Ramone, came closest to realizing the romanticized ideal of authentic punkness—much as the similarly depraved DENNIS WILSON was the only Beach Boy who really surfed. Neither his OD death just months after his 2002 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nor his sordid past as a rent boy (as chronicled in his tart but unremittingly grisly memoirs, Lobotomy and Legend of a Rock Star, and in the Ramones song “53rd and 3rd”) has deterred today’s garage-punk youngsters from upholding Ramone, along with his pal Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls, as the coolest people imaginable.