Geezer Cool
It started with the comeback of vinyl records. They were supposed to be long gone. Dead as Dillinger. But sales have been on an upswing for 16 years in a row now. The younger generation, who had no experience at all with the discs, have been driving it, feeling that the analog sound reverberates way better than digital.
Another flipnutty thing is that pickleball is going wild. What was once a retirement community sport is now exploding across generations. It’s a cross between tennis, ping-pong, and badminton. It ain’t T-Ball, Frankie Furter. The game has grown 40% in the last coupla years with five million players whacking the soft Wiffle-type balls. Whoa, Harry Horse Manure, who thought that goofball lame game would become America’s fastest-growing sport? The lowdown is anybody can play. It’s simple and fun and a stress reliever for the times.
Another trend comin’ through thru rhubarb patch from Liverpool, the gritty city where the Fab Four got rockin’, is bingo. And it’s the younger generation driving that one too. Bingo, another staple of the geezer generation, has been taken over by the kids and partied it up. They mix it up with dance-offs, cheesy giveaways, and thumping 90s music between rounds. The oldsters are liking it too. It’s always sold out. The goddamn game has gotten a second wind and it’ll be coming across the pond soon like the next British Invasion. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A coupla things in the so-bad-it’s-good column got me doing the Triple Lindy the other day. The first is that Larry Gatlin and his brothers are touring, which means Members Only jackets will start selling again. But what’s really got me flippin’ over backwards is the comeback of Sansabelt pants. You know, those fashion classics with that big fat wide elastic across the waist? The no-belt look, Baboon Sheehan. These are the kind of pants Pauline Walnuts on the Sopranos would wear. Word on the street is that Joe Sibilia, now that he’s in his sixties, is sporting the Sansabelts down on Gasoline Alley and walking around like he’s the King of Cool. What the Christ?
Keep your dukes up.
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