Critical Nonsense
209! Defining Cool
What is "cool"?
This week, Joey and Aaron talk about kinetic energy, Obama, privilege and power, nerds, Blackness, and fish sauce. They don’t talk about Freestyle Fellowship.
references
- The Joey Sleeps Alone Tonight while Aaron Learns
- Damien Rice covering Sia's "Chandelier"
- How do you do, fellow kids? (the not-black version)
- Wondrium Daily: Why The Word ‘Cool’ Has Stayed Hot For So Long
- "I Like to Watch": Drag Queens Trixie Mattel and Katya React to Mean Girls
- Hank and John Green
- Quartz: How Black Americans have shaped cool globally
- Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness
- Corrections Department: Big Boi, not 3 Stacks, said "cooler than a polar bear's toenails".