E42 - Notes on Tacky

<div class="stackable"> </div> <div class="sc-1sp3zau-0 iIedDv sc-1di2uql-0 cioKer" data-tag= "post-content"> <p>Team LCB takes the introduction of Rax's newly-published book <em>Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer</em>, and hashes out the finer points of the word itself: "tacky"! From a 19th century pejorative about Yankee carpetbaggers to a 21st century pejorative about bad taste, "tacky" is nestled somewhere between sincere, gauche, accessible, and rejected, a state beyond the gatekeepers, beyond societal approval, beyond irony: "Tacky is about becoming," says Rax.</p> <p><a href= "https://bookshop.org/books/tacky-love-letters-to-the-worst-culture-we-have-to-offer/9780593312728" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Buy the book today!</a> </p> <p>Become a trash patron!<br /> <a href= "http://www.patreon.com/lowcultureboil">www.patreon.com/lowcultureboil</a></p> </div>