u/shmupsy

I don't know how I've made it this long without it breaking down this much.

My divorced parents and their new families of course live 60 and 35 minutes in opposite directions from me and my wife.

Over 2 decades of struggling, its becoming clear to me that I hate trying to make weekend plans with them.

I love getting lunches if they wanna visit during the week.

But my weekend time seems so insanely precious now. I could also really take or leave all their new family members etc

I feel kind of bad though. It's not like I'm a big shot with lots of weekend plans. I mostly need to recharge for work monday.

I find it ironic that the genre is not named after any music aspect, and so can change whenever it wants to. That's problem #1.

And #2 is that it's not even popular in the true sense of the word. Something has to gain popularity because people like it. That's inherently democratic.

But pop doesn't work that way. the artists are chosen by the companies with the most money and molded into icons for campaigns. some of those campaigns have staying power and some fade quickly. the artists only becomes popular due to repeated expensive exposure, until it becomes an earworm, or you get FOMO and jump on the bandwagon.

I won't accept that those artists are chosen because they have that certain star quality. Any leading theater kid could have been lady gaga. yea i said it.

so pop is not pop.

is it slop? hmm well is it something simple and high calorie to be consumed by the masses, fed to us by our masters?

the few moore things i've read so far have all had standout art too! did he have the ability to choose top people to work with?

this guy is kind of amazing. i love his flavor of comic writing.