Pop Culture

So this weekend was girl's weekend. And as per usual, it involved a night of board games. (Oh I know, we are wild and crazy.) Anyway, I love doing that, especially trivia games. And I love it even more when the trivia games are based on Pop Culture. We played the Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary Edition, and I was telling Sonny that I knew the answers for everyone else's questions, but when they were mine, I didn't have a clue.

But my favorite game of the night was The 90's Game. Brenda pointed out that she doesn't know why we even play it because she already knows that I am going to win before we start. I don't know why, but I just know and remember that stuff. Information like the medical term for flesh-eating bacteria, I don't know (and had I, I would have gotten another piece of pie in Trivial Pursuit), but things like the name of Andrea Zucherman's husband on 90210, I know.

I used to date this guy and we would send each other trivia type emails every day. And most of the time, the questions we would pose would be pop culture questions and so if I ever got stuck on one, Peter would be like, "Come on Jen. This is an easy one. It's Pop Culture."

I wonder why Pop Culture information sticks with me, but other stuff doesn't. Maybe it's an issue of whether or not I care about what the topic at hand is...and for many years, I didn't care. But I don't think that I care that much about pop culture stuff either, but perhaps in the 90s, I did. It was the world around me, and I was immersed in it.