Tuesday, too

Old Dog seems to spend a lot of time digging up oddities.  It seems to me that he should include the New Yorker...

That was a good article and I don't know how I missed it; the New Yorker is one of the sites that I check out regularly.  As a subscriber to the print edition of the magazine I wonder if Uncle Ken has noticed any difference in the content.  Does the online version have additional content like little articles that may not warrant inclusion in the print edition?

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...but then pop music has always been awful.

Does Uncle Ken have a tin ear, never having enjoyed a tune that cause him to tap his toe in syncopated pleasure?  The pop in pop music stems from popular, meaning that a lot of people liked it.  Even classical music was wildly popular in it's day and not a high-brow form of entertainment.  I understand that Mozart had quite an enthusiastic fan base, as did many other musicians of times gone by.

Modern music doesn't do much for me because it seems like I've heard it all before, only better.  Current recording techniques allow very mediocre singers and musicians to sound better than they actually are, but that's just my opinion and I'll let this discussion peter out.

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I have to give Mr. Beagles some credit; Chicks Up Front is back in the spotlight, at least according to FoxNews.  Homeland Security officials have asserted that the notorious caravan "is mostly made up of single adult or teen males and that the women and children have been pushed to the front of the line in a bid to garner sympathetic media coverage."

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Like Uncle Ken, I don't know many young people, but how young is young these days?  Since I'm past my prime anyone younger than fifty or so seems kind of young to me and folks around thirty are like children.  I think there is a natural tendency to want to associate with people that share many of our own experiences; we have a shared context as a point of reference in which to engage conversation.  This can limiting when we try to cross the generation gap (or gulf) because our points of view are so  different.  A lot of things were weird, from our current vantage point, while growing up in the fifties and sixties but things are weirder today in a different way.  Adjusting to the "new normals" is a daunting task and I am not sure if we are all up to it.  Uncle Ken has generously provided a meaty morsel to gnaw on and I'm still chewing.