@NathanielGivens Yep, and it's definitely a space that needs a name.
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D.J. Butler -- Sci-Fi / Fantasy Author and Editor
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D.J. Butler -- Sci-Fi / Fantasy Author and Editor
@DavidJohnButler
Novelist: Witchy War, Clockwork Charlie, Indrajit & Fix, Hiram Woolley, Time Trials, John Abbott, Silas Danger, etc.
Utah شامل ہوئے Haziran 2011
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@DavidJohnButler This name totally resonates, and is better than "middle brow" (which is the term I've used myself for the same concept).
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I've had a project in the works for a bit now. Today I'm launching a new YouTube channel.
The channel is High Low Brow. Its name comes from literary critic William Morris, who used the term to describe *my* fiction (I'm not saying he coined the term for me, I'm saying this is where I first heard it). It means popular art that low brow in form, e.g. genre fiction, but contains elevating elements.
I've heard Neal Stephenson describe novels in this space as rollicking adventure tales that also contain big ideas.
So on High Low Brow, I'll be talking about the books, music, TV shows, graphic novels, and visual art that I like. I'll interview people who make that art and people who like.
High Low Brow. Because culture matters, and I also want to have fun.
(links in the replies)
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@AaronRHolloway1 Thank you!
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Dave is great, go give his stuff a look see. I can't wait to see what his new project looks like.
D.J. Butler -- Sci-Fi / Fantasy Author and Editor@DavidJohnButler
I've had a project in the works for a bit now. Today I'm launching a new YouTube channel. The channel is High Low Brow. Its name comes from literary critic William Morris, who used the term to describe *my* fiction (I'm not saying he coined the term for me, I'm saying this is where I first heard it). It means popular art that low brow in form, e.g. genre fiction, but contains elevating elements. I've heard Neal Stephenson describe novels in this space as rollicking adventure tales that also contain big ideas. So on High Low Brow, I'll be talking about the books, music, TV shows, graphic novels, and visual art that I like. I'll interview people who make that art and people who like. High Low Brow. Because culture matters, and I also want to have fun. (links in the replies)
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@ShotwellMSChoir Thank you!
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@DavePrekup Thank you!
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@DavidJohnButler Watched it. I enjoyed it. Subscribed to it. Looking forward to the next one. I think reading the LoTR when young has a huge impact. I read it at 11-12 and it blew me away.
Keep up the good work.
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@andrewgillsmith Checks out.
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@DavidJohnButler Professor of Ackshually Studies, University of Reddit.
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I find it perfectly believable that a person this stupid could be an academic.
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WATCH: "Professor Jiang" explains that we could fix poverty by printing infinite money but we don't because we want people to be poor. I am not joking.
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@Grownded 10/10, would attend.
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@dafsharirad Can mugs and T-shirts be far behind?
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@merrynick13 @RykerJackson97 yeah parbly gotta be a Saturday
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@DavidJohnButler @RykerJackson97 I am only free Saturdays
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@SeanGatton You had a more interesting formal education than I did.
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@DavidJohnButler I was shocked my professor would let me take it as religiously as I did. LOL! On the whole, I think I enjoyed my King Arthur course better, though only slightly. Dickens wasn’t bad either. And everyone loooooooves Shakespeare.
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@merrynick13 @RykerJackson97 BIG BOY PANTS
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@DavidJohnButler @RykerJackson97 When we have you the book club we’ll introduce you as author and “YouTuber” now
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@gpooley The picture of the rocks really makes it work for me.
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@SeanGatton I'm jealous. And thank you!
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@DavidJohnButler Subscribed to the channel, and looking forward to listening to the first episode. I remember taking an entire semester of Tolkien, and it was one of my favorites for my English major.
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@jhendersonYT Gotta be AI.
And it should be a one-strike rule for disbarment.
It's insuperable evidence of malpractice.
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I’m assuming it’s because of AI. But maybe she just made up cases.
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The technology isn’t going to go away. Unless we have severe norms about this - like ‘You’re disbarred if you cite fake cases because of AI’/‘Tenure doesn’t protect AI research fraud’/etc - we’re going to see more and more of this.
Anna Bower@AnnaBower
An absolutely excruciating moment at the Georgia Supreme Court this week. Justice Peterson pressed state attorney Deborah Leslie over her citations to cases that apparently don’t exist.
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@merrynick13 @RykerJackson97 This channel might host, among other things ... video journals of Twilight Imperium games.
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@RykerJackson97 @DavidJohnButler That’s super exciting!!!
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@jheilesonRD Thank you!
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@RykerJackson97 @merrynick13 Thank you!
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@merrynick13 @DavidJohnButler The first video is spectacular! It gave me lots of new insight into some aspects of LOTR cosmology I never even knew was there.
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