The horror of trying to discuss Eminem's cultural significance with your ex-girlfriend's completely drunk mom at a wedding reception

excellent! did you use meatballs and cold cuts from the wedding buffet to graphically illustrate certain points?

No. However, I did actually say, "You know how I was about rock music a long time ago? They're like that, kind off, except about rock."

A damn noble effort,
whether drunk or sober.

This isn't the reason the g/f is now 'ex' is it?

Not really, except for an edited-unto-uselessness section of "My Dad's Gone Crazy." The lowest moment was when I was trying to explain the Em vs. Benzino beef and ended up talking about Barthes.

Do you think she learned a lot from your conversation?

I'd like to think so. That's largely contingent on how much of the evening she ended up remembering.

This isn't the reason the g/f is now 'ex' is it?

No, that was all long ago. We are now stalwart pals, which kind of made the whole exchange weirder.

I just had to try very hard to stifle laughter here in work... you are my hero also...

Her take was mostly an Eminem-what's-all-the-fuss query and since she knows I have way too many opinions about pop music, I guess I seemed the guy to ask. Like a lot of people of her age (I've had effectively the same chat with my own relatives), Eminem has for whatever reason been the person who alerted them to the fact that rap is an "art" and, therefore, is interesting. (Why my dad, for example, has always had difficulty with this notion while persisting in listening to Ten Years After is a puzzlement to me.)

another good thread