E42 - Notes on Tacky

Team LCB takes the introduction of Rax's newly-published book Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer, and hashes out the finer points of the word itself: "tacky"! From a 19th century pejorative about Yankee carpetbaggers to a 21st century pejorative about bad taste, "tacky" is nestled somewhere between sincere, gauche, accessible, and rejected, a state beyond the gatekeepers, beyond societal approval, beyond irony: "Tacky is about becoming," says Rax. Buy the book today! Become a trash patron! www.patreon.com/lowcultureboil