One of my favorite podcasts is “Your Favorite Band Sucks,” in which the hosts completely take apart many popular acts and critical darlings, from the Replacements to the Beatles to Nirvana to Talking Heads.
After you get over the shock of hearing knowledgeable music pundits dismantle some of your favorite bands, most people get the joke. The hosts actually like or respect most of these bands and are trying to help you realize how stupid it is to get emotional, angry or defensive about something like a musical band.
(Side note, one of the host’s other podcasts, “Cocaine & Rhinestones,” is the best piece of entertainment and music history I’ve heard in a long time. Highly recommended.)
Anyway, I think about “Your Favorite Band Sucks” quite a bit when I think about woodworking journalism. There are some important lessons there that might make all of our workshop lives a little less polarized.
Recently, readers gave me crap when I discussed Lost Art Press publishing a pocket book about saw sharpening just a few days after I stated here on “The American Peasant,” that: “There are about 4,000 things you should learn first before learning to file saws.”
I stand by that statement. And yes, we are publishing a pocket book on saw sharpening by Matt Cianci.
I contend that my job as a woodworking editor/publisher is different from my job as a woodworking writer.
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