Once for school credit, Misti and one of her friends started an online
literary magazine called "The Pretentious Dilettante." It was composed
mostly of satirical essays that exploit friction between high and low
culture, ranging in issues from the pretentions of the former to the
deficiency of the latter and much else in between. "Pretentious
Dilettante" delved in comical fashion into the inanity of celebrity and
played with the idea of how its cult infiltrates even the most serious
minded.