what is ‘kill your heroes’?

kill your heroes is a series of posts brought to you by eugene k, a fading star in the constellation that is popular culture. visit for some essays, short-form fiction, songs, sketches, monologues, poems, and the like. all free, to you, from me.

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why is it called ‘kill your heroes’?

my posts include both takes on present trends, events, phenomena, and more happening in popular culture (mainly music), plus reflections on an increasing number of things i lived through in britain — some of which i still just about remember the first time around — where i thought it worth testing my memory (and taste) on whether those things were as good as they seemed at the time.

you could reasonably accuse me of trying to make sense of and ultimately renouncing my many teenage cultural faux pas. that would be fair. hence the title ‘kill your heroes’.

• style guide klaxon: kill your heroes posts will be written in lowercase (with the exception of brand / artist names and release titles). why? because it’s faster and easier to type, i can forget all of the pointless rules about what, where, and when to capitalise, and linguistically speaking, writing in sentence case is a fascistic construct something something blah blah blah… i dunno, i threw that last line in to annoy pedants. none of it really matters. nothing does. stay blessed.