Despite adma's claim to the contrary, even a cursory glance of The AP and BB Thread shows that increasing numbers of forum members have come over to the dark side and are now making intelligent comments therein about said major art form.
Ah, the art form may be major, but it's still an insular world, the most insular thread on UT--that's why I highlighted it. (And that's why it was renamed The AP and BB Thread in the first place, remember.) And even with said "increasing numbers of forum members" (though in a forum that's always served as--judging from past "meets", etc--a gathering place for a de facto Male Homophile Aesthete Urbanist Society, it's not hard to achieve), it's a pattern of discussion that may be even *less* egalitarian than either Spacing-style urban hipsterism or Dominion Modern-style letter-hugging. Indeed, it may be predicated upon a
fear, or at least a disdain, for the "egalitarian".
So, that's where the pot/kettle/black--as well as the inherent limitations of UT, or maybe *any* web forum for that matter--comes in. Unfortunately, today's so-called optimum urban sensitivity tends to be an egalitarian thing, not an elite thing. You gotta be ambidextrous, y'know. Use the operatic frame of reference all you want, but allow for other sides--that is, unless you feel those "other sides" corrupt the message. But at that point, well, UT ceases to reflect the fullness of, er, urban Toronto.
In which case, something like
this might be my invitation to *you* to "come over to the dark side"...
