What’s Popscotch? Popscotch is pop culture hopscotch. Popscotch is when two things marry in your brain, even though they wouldn’t touch each other in real life. Popscotch is when you make a spurious connection with something on TV, or in a song, or an ad on the side of a bus. Popscotch happens when you’re so immersed in pop culture that you don’t even know your own name anymore, but you could easily list the last seven features that Winona Ryder was in faster than IMDB. Popscotch… well, you’ll never really get it until you watch it play out.
This month we’re contending that The Blizzards’ hit On the Right Track could well have been inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses and is a shoe-in for the soundtrack if they ever make a modern adaptation.
Ya wha’?
We’re serious. Listen to it here:
And while you’re at it, the 1967 version of Ulysses is on YouTube:
