TRs and Postmodernism
March 20, 2007
This month's Reformed Man Today is well worth a purchase. As well as having a rather fetching picture of Mark Dever on the front looking a little like Tom Cruise in Top Gun (as they might have said in the sixties if they had had access to time travel, those reflecting glassses are so eighties, daddy-oh!), it also includes an interview with Derek Thomas, musing on his time as head roady for classic Wolverhampton rockers, Slade, in the seventies. In a more pensive moment, however, he does make the following philosophical observation about humour: `Things aren’t funny in a world where there are no rules. Humor is about creating a tension that is resolved in an unexpected way etc. Does this mean that our humorless reformed brothers are closet postmoderns?' Interesting point. I had just thought they had no life, but if this is true, it could reshape the confessional landscape. I think we should be told. As Slade's own Noddy Holder might have said, ` I just don't know why, anymore, anymore.....'