{"id":58246,"date":"2016-10-20T02:07:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T06:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=58246"},"modified":"2021-06-01T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:22:36","slug":"joys-dullness-via-dull-mens-club-nicholson-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2016\/10\/20\/joys-dullness-via-dull-mens-club-nicholson-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Wonders in &#8216;Dullness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NmWgOW2EZfA?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NmWgOW2EZfA\">Video link here<\/a>.)\u00a0Over at the ever-illuminating <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/16\/09\/born-to-be-mild-the-dull-mens-club\">Kottke,<\/a> we found an interesting piece about the virtues of dullness. \u00a0Who knew there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dullmensclub.com\/\">Dull Men&#8217;s Club<\/a>, an online community of men wishing to just be ordinary?&#8230;Or that novelist Nicholson Baker had much to say on the subject after he worked briefly as a substitute teacher? Or that the threads that runs through both is gratitude and curiosity?<\/p>\n<p>In Born to Be Mild, a short documentary about the Dull Men&#8217;s Club, the touching first minute and a half \u00a0tells it all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We got tired of\u00a0reading\u00a0and hearing so much\u00a0about people always trying to get a fancier car, a bigger house, travel to more exotic places&#8230;The dull men&#8217;s club is&#8230;a sanctuary, a place where we can hide out and get away from the glitz and glam, the hurly-burly, all the noise of modern life, the pressure to keep up&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We regard ourselves as dull but not boring, we&#8217;re grateful for so many things in our lives<\/strong>. There&#8217;s the biscuit Appreciation Society, the Traffic Cone Preservation Society, The Apostrophe Protection Society, <a href=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2015\/10\/01\/cloud-therapy\/\">the Cloud Appreciation Society<\/a>&#8230;<strong>It goes on and on.<\/strong>.. \u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50491\" src=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Clouds-by-snowwhite-Belgrade-Serbia.jpg\" alt=\"Clouds by snowwhite Belgrade, Serbia\" width=\"1378\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Clouds-by-snowwhite-Belgrade-Serbia.jpg 1378w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Clouds-by-snowwhite-Belgrade-Serbia-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Clouds-by-snowwhite-Belgrade-Serbia-790x663.jpg 790w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Clouds-by-snowwhite-Belgrade-Serbia-422x354.jpg 422w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Clouds-by-snowwhite-Belgrade-Serbia-190x160.jpg 190w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Clouds-by-snowwhite-Belgrade-Serbia-264x222.jpg 264w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Clouds-by-snowwhite-Belgrade-Serbia-500x419.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1378px) 100vw, 1378px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But it is Nicholson Baker&#8217;s writing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/11\/magazine\/fortress-of-tedium-what-i-learned-as-a-substitute-teacher.html\">New York Times<\/a> that nails it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>That\u2019s the extremely interesting thing: <strong>Everything is interesting. Potentially<\/strong>. Sometimes it may not seem so. You may think a certain thing is completely without interest. You may think, or I may think, eh, dull, boring, heck with it, let\u2019s move on. But there is someone on this planet who can find something interesting in that particular thing. And it\u2019s often good to try.<strong> You have to poke at a thing, sometimes, and find out where it squeaks.<\/strong> <strong>Any seemingly dull thing is made up of subsidiary things. It\u2019s a composite \u2014 of smaller events or decisions. Or of atoms and molecules and prejudices and hunches that are fireflying around in unexpected and impossible trajectories. Everything is interesting because everything is not what it is, but is something on the way to being something else. Everything has a history and a secret stash of fascination.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em><strong>Everything is interesting because everything is not what it is, but is something on the way to being something else. Everything has a history and a secret stash of fascination.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53947\" style=\"width: 1125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53947\" src=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Look-UP-clouds.jpg\" alt=\"Sally Schneider\" width=\"1125\" height=\"983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Look-UP-clouds.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Look-UP-clouds-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Look-UP-clouds-790x690.jpg 790w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Look-UP-clouds-422x369.jpg 422w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Look-UP-clouds-500x437.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Schneider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video about the Dull Men&#8217;s Club, an online community of men wishing to just be ordinary, and novelist Nicholson Baker&#8217;s wise writing about dullness, we discovered the thread that runs through both is gratitude and curiosity.<\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\" https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2016\/10\/20\/joys-dullness-via-dull-mens-club-nicholson-baker\/ \">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":50491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,6549,780,90,800,1860],"tags":[10054,10053,10055,10056,1571,342,5900,122],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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