In a failing gambet to enter the Fruit Bowl game, @DonnyDeutsch attempts to upgrade the dentist office setup. @jheil was not immediately available for comment. 6/10 pic.twitter.com/XMcD8edieZ— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) May 20, 2020
Here's the Room Rater Twitter feed. I love it, and I have great respect for the creation of a genre on Twitter. But there need to be other participants. It's a matter of taste, and Room Rater has his standards and factors, and now media folk seem to be pandering specifically to Room Rater. Prime example: Donny Deutsch adds a fruit bowl to his otherwise dull background. Room Rater is right to push back, but he's sort of conceding that there's a limitation to the his game. I think there need to be more critics, complicating the standards and questioning the value of, say, books and potted plants and "art."
Here is Room Rater's ideal:
Room Rater Team Heilemann Update: Wu Tang has joined the Mid Century Modern splendor that is @jheil room. 10/10 pic.twitter.com/rue4QQDHN8— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) May 20, 2020
Fine. But I'd like to read the Twitter feed that objects to this ideal. It's too clean, too prissy, too tryhard. It's bourgeois. It's Architectural Digest. It gives us no inroads into the interior of the man called John Heilemann. Who is he?
By the way, "gambet" is a misspelling by today's standards — but I'm seeing "gambit" spelled like that in 18th century quotes. A "gambit" is a series of moves in chess. Metaphorically, it has come to mean "A plan, stratagem, or ploy that is calculated to gain an advantage, esp. at the outset of a contest, negotiation, etc." (OED). So "gambit" was the perfect word to tweak Deutsch about his apparent effort to play Room Rater's game.
ADDED: Here's a good example of where I think Room Rater goes wrong:
Not even a plant would help. Send him a storage shed. Maybe a dumpster. 4/10 @donttrythis pic.twitter.com/QgCnKMiaNU
— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) May 19, 2020
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