Posted 12:50 PM by Gene

Trekkiedom isn't just Star Trek fans; it encompasses obsessive-compulsives of every kind, though its ilk is most likely to be found overpraising pop culture. Here's a Phil Spector Trekkie quoted admiringly in Slate:

As Evan Eisenberg wrote in his marvellous book The Recording Angel: "[I]n its urgent solipsism, its perfectionism, its mad bricolage, Spector's work was perhaps the first fully self-conscious phonography in the popular field."

Hence Peter Bart makes fun of movie-ad-blurb copywriters; they write this way. Too many news hacks write this way. They call it eloquence.