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Perhaps high-brow and low-brow refers to sag.
My cousin wasn’t the Earl of Oxford Frank. My mother-in-law is a direct decendant of Mary Queen of Scots! 
Get your doper geniology right! 
And I for one like the content of CS. There is pleanty of art talk. There is more talk about pop art, true, but there is pleanty of talk about all sorts of other things.
That one made me giggle. I will smile about it for the remainder of the day. Thank you.
Is there anything wrong with enjoying fresh topics even if it can be acknowledged that they are less than eloquent. I think South Park is crass, but at least it’s current, it’s just not as much fun to have a Wealth of Nations debate. Modern pop culture also has massive accessibility, a discussion requires other people to have shared the experience, hence the reason for book clubs. How many people went to the Louvre yesterday, 'cause I want to talk about it.
Not so great for hand jobs though.
I think far more than tastes and the nebulous “high brow vs. low brow,” Cafe Society is driven by timeliness. There have been many threads about various pieces of literature that I would’ve liked to participate in, but it had been too long since I’d read that particular piece to speak knowledgeably about it. I can remember the gist, and I can remember my impressions, but there’s no immediacy for me. Frankly, I won’t run to the library to pick up a copy of a given Shakespeare play or what-have-you just to participate in the thread, so I read the discussion but don’t post anything.
On the other hand, a bunch of members will probably have read a book that just came out, or seen a film that was just released, or watched an ongoing TV show. Those things are much more recent, and therefore more easy to recall and discuss.
I’d also argue that threads about the great pieces of literature/art/film (and even TV) may spur people to seek those pieces out, even if they’re too late to participate in the discussion. I just finished reading Scott McCormack’s The Road, and the first thing I did was look up old threads about it to see what other Dopers thought. Too late for me to revive those threads, but I did read them. Same goes for lots of other stuff, for me.
Was that another potshot at me, or am I just oversensitive this morning?
Dude, given what you put in your eye, oversensitivity isn’t exactly the word.
Damnit, that was funny and now I cant be angry anymore
Good. Want you to smile. 
Well us low brow sports fans have been begging for our own forum for years, don’t blame us that we are lumped in with Café. I know we do not really belong there. They inconsistently kick us out of the other forums.
As far as TV & Movies in Café, well that is the heart of Café, I guess on the Dope, Café is more ironic than descriptive.
Jim
Wait, what? Me? Did I post to this thread and black out or something?
Venus de Milo by at least an arm’s length.
I don’t know if you blacked out or not, but SBSO got you confused with Muffin. Who, for SBSO’s edification, is a male.
Yes! I do this too–read a book, see a movie, whatever, and then see what the Dopers thought lo those many years ago when the topic of discussion was current (I’m about 2 years behind on movies since I don’t go to the theater, do PPV, or rent DVDs). I like being able to find out about the things I missed, and there are always things I miss.
Well, that’s a relief. I’ve always had this wierd fear that I’d black out and post really crazy shit on the SDMB. Like I’d start pretending I was royalty, or telling everyone I’m gay, or something stupid like that. Glad to know I haven’t done that.
… So we should stop referring to you as “Her Highness King Miller the III”?
You might have served yourself better by stopping with the word “impaired”. 
Oh fuck you you snivelling poseur. This Board is full of people with a lot more film history under their belt than I, and I’ve worked in the film industry for 27 years. First of all, I have news for you. The word is spelled " halt". Second of all, the very idea that art does not exist until an art critic says it is art seriously undercuts any validity your OP might have had.
It does not take someone to study an art form in order for it to be an art form. Here. You need examples. I understand. Small mind, small words.
If I craft a sculpture out of stone, as I am wont to do sometimes, I can finish it. Alone. Put it on the shelf. All alone. Walk past it and look at it now and then. All by my little teensy lonesome.
If my daughter plays a sonata on her violin in her bedroom and nobody is in the house, she played it. She heard herself play it. Nobody was there to hear it, enjoy it or ( horrors ) critique her performance.
The creation of art is independent of the exposure of others to the art. Your statement up there is entirely bullshit without a shred of validity.
The only reason I can even imagine you would make such a sweeping statement regarding highbrow and lowbrow is that in fact you are an art critic by trade.
Which puts you right there in the pack between politicians and human slavery marketeers.
The British film industry has offered up some amazing artists. I don’t even KNOW where to start. David Lean. Charles Chaplin. Alfred Hitchcock. Oh god. What’s the point in detailing it. Just read this, you narrowminded twit.
And before you flounce in here to inform me that you have “Reported This Post”, this is The Pit. Asshole. Dish it out but cannot take it?
Welcome to the real world, you horrorshow of a specimen.
Cartooniverse
If a drop of paint drops on a canvas in a forest where nobody can see it, is it art?