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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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’68 Comeback Special. Nickname for television special that originally carried the simple title Elvis. Upheld by Snobs as Elvis Presley’s last great flourish of brilliance before getting fat and inordinately chummy with Richard Nixon, the special, which aired on NBC in December 1968, saw Presley temporarily liberating himself from the odious grind of B-movies and reclaiming his relevance and sensuality in the Beatle era—growing out his sideburns again, wearing tight leathers, and, of the most musicological importance, reuniting with his 1950s bandmates Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana for a proto-Unplugged, rootsy revisitation of old rockabilly numbers. Though Elvis had no shortage of the sort of overwrought, unintentionally funny production numbers endemic to TV at that time, the stripped-down segment, only a fragment of which was seen in the original special, has since become a phenomenon of its own as full-length video entitled Elvis—One Night With You. Read more from the Rock Snob's Dictionary » 
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