Pop Thank You
From a GORGEOUS, frigid, and delightfully snowball-friendly storm in Istanbul, a few excerpts of how pop culture has made its way to our mobile hearth and home:
A recent gift of CDs for our journey has introduced us to Justin Bieber’s “Mistletoe.” I think it’s awesome. Other members of my family are not so enamored.
It’s the song of how a young man who spurns “playing in the winter snow” and “chilling with my folks” during “the most beautiful time of the year” to “be under the mistletoe.” S — our lyric listener — was moved to say: “I hope OUR boys bring THEIR girls to sit by the fire to sit WITH our family.” “They’re not going to be around,” I responded … then described all the wrestling I did as a young man trying to decide between holiday events with family … and holiday events with a girl. Truth be told, I always chose the girl.
Thank you, Justin.
(On a side note: S and I are having another debate about whether the chorus goes “Shoddy, with you” or “Shoddyweeoo.”)
A few days later, S was describing “Long Walk to Water” to W as a good read. She told him it was about two characters in two different countries, growing up at different times.
W’s response: “Like ‘Don’t Stop Believin.’” S was puzzled. “Like the song,” he told her. “It’s about two people in different places, who ‘Took the midnight train going anywhere.’”
Thank you, Journey.
Then — today — the boys and I discussed the highbrow YouTube video pasted below … to conclude a discussion about Saint Paul’s missionary journeys … and set up a class on courage.
Thank you, Peyton.
I want to take the class on courage. And my two cents: “‘shorty’ with you,” i.e. a fine lady or girlfriend, per the urban dictionary. Cause I’m so urban.
Thank you Jimmy!
shorty is the correct spelling, “shawty” is the phonetic and preferred “pop” spelling ;-) (see Shawn Kingston) I teach middle school.