Missed It: August Hoarding Article

It was always my attention to write a short post on this article that ran late last summer in the LA Weekly. That's a cute hook and tag line, and while I haven't seen any of the hoarding shows I can imagine they're compelling television and that the situations presented are affecting and uniquely bizarre. The focus on the movie business doesn't really interest me all that much, either. I think there was a much worse year for the idea of building on earlier film experiences -- 2007 -- and one of the things film people mentioned to me at San Diego was that the box office performance of Inception and the then-expected strong showing by Eat, Pray, Love were good signs for original projects or one-off projects in the overall popular film landscape even if Scott Pilgrim didn't perform to expectations (sadly, it didn't).

This article seems interesting to me primarily for the fact it addresses general pop culture consumption habits, something I'm not tied into as much as I could be comics-wise because of the fact I get a bunch of them for free. Still, when one's first thought on the death of the alternative comic book essay by Seth, not to mention this week's WildStorm closure, is that these are closed sets now that can be collected and curated with an end goal in mind, as mine was, it's clear that there's a push-against the iPad-ization of one's physical belongings, a desire to fully own the partly ephemeral that likely has a gigantic impact on comics purchasing. It's worth thinking about, for sure.
 
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