Queenan never gets around to explaining why anything is bad, exactly how it is bad, or what we might learn from is badness. There are three good reasons to write about bad art. First, we can help people spend their time and money wisely. More important, we can learn from failure, we can sharpen our senses and learn to avoid blunders. By discovering the shortcomings of the best art, we might learn to surpass it.
Smashing icons is hard work.
Queenan doesn't like John Tesh or Michael Bolton or Tony Orlando. He thinks Deepak Chopra is bad. He doesn't think Jackie Collins is a very good writer. More to the point, he never explains why anything he hated is bad. Manilow still danced like a spindly Travolta impersonator.