If I See One More Piece of Chocolate I May Lose My Lunch. Which Was Also Chocolate.

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My father has never heard of Celine Dion.

"Celine Dion?", I said, over blueberry pancakes and all natural pomegranate juice. "Celine 'My Heart Will Go On' Dion? 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now'? Queen of the '80s and '90s power ballad?"

Now dad's accusing me of making him look like a blithering idiot on the internet. He is pulling up a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young documentary on the HD as an example of "real music". Apparently, liking CSNY is proof you are not an idiot. This would be a lot more convincing if he weren't reminiscing about what he got up to when he saw CSNY in '74; also if I hadn't seen people try to use Coldplay and the Decemberists as evidence against the same charges. Bless you, dad: 30 years is the only thing separating you from the hipsters.

Next up: double-chocolate cookies in the oven. Dad and I agree the recipe is suspect, but that's okay: I know where to find a triple-ginger cookie recipe for backup desert.

Comments

[morineko]

I have this 33 1/3 series book on Celine Dion (more accurately, it's about the concept of "taste") that i haven't read yet...according to charmian it's very interesting, about 100+ pages of the sort of criticism one only gets in little bite-sized chunks on the internets. I'd have read it already if I hadn't misplaced it.