WHAT IS COOL?

We're constantly bombarded with things that other people think are cool. But what is cool really? I have no idea, if I did I would be writing here while wearing a cool hat and ill fitting pants. Even then that isn't cool, it's trendy or fashionable, or "of the moment" - you get the picture.

Cool is fascinating because it's the never ending debate between people, groups, taste makers and well everybody. What I think is cool might not be considered cool by someone else - so we rage on. In the end cool is a taste - and taste is a hard thing to have in this culture (more on that later), and some of us have good tastes (read accepted) and some of us have bad tastes (read unaccepted) which determine what is cool to us. Some things are universally cool - Jack Nicholson at the Academy Awards is cool no matter what. Winning is cool. A home cooked meal. Outside of that everything is left up to taste ( and I have issues with taste in culture).

But talking to people about what is cool is like trying to ask them for a word that rhymes with orange, they sit and scratch their head and stumble on sentences being careful not to reveal what they think is uncool, just in case you think it is cool. It's all a very complicated dance - but a fun way to get conversation going at a boring ass dinner party. Sort of what I've done in this entry so far.

Cool, yes it all is, and it all will be - eventually.