It’s easy to crank out 300 words on something dumb. Usually it’s well-deserved—there’s a lot of dumb stuff out there! But who cares? It gets old. Hating gets old.
I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately—probably because LA Weekly just got crushed, like many other alternative weeklies before it, and because people talk about alt-weeklies like they’re just a bunch of snarky hipster drivel. But as a person whose life has been positively impacted by reading alt-weeklies for many years—and as someone who writes for this alt-weekly—I take offense to that. This isn’t drivel! We’re trying to curate a community over here. I’m a part of something, goddamnit. I don’t just default to being a hater because I think I’m hot shit. Sometimes things are just… not very good.
Which brings us to: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.
