hmmm, maybe I’m thinking of fanboi, instead? There’s definitely a pejorative connotation to the way I’ve seen it used these days, e.g. as a way to dismiss someone’s opinion or argument because they’re “just an Apple fanboy/fanboi” (or Android fan*, if you prefer).
Or maybe we were all just homers, back in the day. It could be that. 
I’ve just been playing a bit of their stuff from youtube. They look like they’d be a fun show, especially in the right venue with the right crowd. A good concert experience can totally augment or even change my opinion of a band and make their recordings more fun to listen to.
I’ve never particularly been into polka music (aside from Weird Al), but I did have a very brief period of seeking out klezmer music, and to this day I quite enjoy Zydeco when I hear it (I’m not necessarily well-versed in the genre). What I’m saying is: I can respect the accordion.
People have been hip for longer than we realise, and the post-Great War period was rich in slang development.
Progress does not progress steadily, alas.
It can even go negative.
I’ve heard them play in Lafayette IN a couple decades ago and have been hooked ever since. @TobinL is right, they are great in a small venue.
Thank you! This is what I’d hope would happen (though I’m loving everyone picking apparent the link I posted, too). Let’s do both!
It was an uptight, conservative place that I couldn’t wait to leave. I went back only once, about 18 months after graduation to visit a few friends that were still there. It seems like the atmosphere was a bit less stodgy, and the “weirdos” (like me, and my circle of friends) were more numerous.
Which is really funny - I think of Ames as being this quirky, weird small town. But my friend who grew up there, then did his PhD at ISU from ~2007-2013 feels like it’s on a backslide into corporatism. Undeniably true - a lot of big box type stuff moved in near campus. But the downtown still has a lot of weirdo stuff. Ebb and flow, I guess.
In the 90’s, downtown was nearly empty. An old lady clothing store, a bank, a pool hall and a tattoo parlor were about it. Walmart effect was in full flower, basically.
My new entry for this thread…
Doesn’t really understand goth much…
Of course not. The Chinese always had to deal with Xiongnu, not Goths.
I was never a goth, but I was an emo teenager and remember the fashion always being seen as signifying something problematic when it was more about belonging and identity.
That was the opportunity to stop digging, or for the editor to kill the article. And it went sailing by.
Surely to goodness there’s a former or current goth around who can sling together 600 words on the subject.
This kind of feeds into my view that Gen Xers aren’t being listened to, because I’d guess that Gen Xers made up much of the goth scene in the late 80s and early 90s, and that Millennials in general are the go to for such cultural pieces.
I really need to write that book…
I’d read it!
preach it, preach it!
There are more of us!
I’d buy that.
I think it would look splendid on the shelf next to my copy of Lipstick Traces.