I hope you ate the cicada. It's bad manners to refuse...
Now, Chris, re: your loathing for pop culture. I share your distaste, but do occasionally check on what's going on, on the principle that one should know one's enemies. And since it's such a pervasive and unavoidable part of the environment (some might argue that it is the environment), we still engage with it whether we care to or not. For example, many of your Fort Wayne photos integrate aspects of pop culture in a way that feels, to me, like an ironic commentary on the somewhat scruffy, economically struggling community that you love and call home.
Probably the "Sneaky" thread is not the place, but there could be endless discussion of what, exactly, constitutes pop culture, what is "high culture", what do those terms mean in our media-saturated world, and do they even hood validity any more? One can earn a college degree these days in Cultural Studies, and probably do one's thesis on the Kardashians. UGH!
