I hear them saying 'Los Angeles'

Why are craft-type things so obsessed with being in and cool? I just saw another post on another place where candy is out and crafting is in. Candy? What? Candy is never out or in. It's candy. And, I daresay, crafting is never in. Deal with it.

I told my mom that thing of, "Crafting is the new rock and roll," and she said, "Ugh. I'm old and even I don't believe that."

Really though, did anyone start enjoying knitting or gluing stuff or whatever more when it became the new rock and roll (as if it had, which it clearly hasn't)? Because for me, if I was happily knitting along and then it became a movement, I'd be embarrassed. I would knit in secret only, for I would know that were I to knit on the subway, where people before would think, "Um, OK," now they would think, "Way to go, trendo." It is a simple fact. By the time it is "cool," aren't we all way too cool for it? PS If it is self-designated cool, that is just a horror.

Anyway, I don't know why I think of this at all, except maybe because I am cranky. I am cranky because stuck in my head is the awful song "Los Angeles" by Frank Black. You know, the one where he says the hard g, not the soft g? The one where he says, "I want to live in Los Angeles/ Not the one in Los Angeles" in the most annoying way possible, over and over? Lord, please deliver me from this evil.