So yeah, about that Patton Oswalt essay—

One rather wishes he’d been better versed in the critical nuances of SF; he might then have been familiar enough with the concept of “cosy catastrophe” to realize what was staring at him from the mirror at the end of his screed. —Thing about pieces like this and the terribly similar “Alex Chilton” essay from Joshua Ellis is they suffer from what it was Pauline Kael never said about Nixon: the only proper response to noticing that everyone in contact with you works the same dam’ cultural referents these days isn’t OMG looming geek monoculture but damn I need to get out more.