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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

POP

Such a great word.

Fizzy sugar water! Drink it with ice!

That startling sound when something punctures a balloon!

A try ("give it a . . . "); an assault by striking (" . . . on the nose"); with "up," to appear unexpectedly (" . . . up everywhere"); also with "up," a baseball hit high in the air but a only short length ("the catcher caught the . . . up"), sometimes "pop fly" instead of "pop up."

Applied to music, it means fizzy, sweet, startling, gung-ho, aggressive, unexpected, and easy to catch.

Oh yeah, it's also an affectionate, casual synonym for "father." So add "insouciantly patriarchal" to the list.

Pop is fizzy, sweet, startling, gung-ho, aggressive, unexpected, easy to catch, and insouciantly patriarchal.

That sounds about right.
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