This was a good one.

Does Folk exist? I must admit, I'm less sure now than ever I was; certainly none of the recent threads on the subject have convinced me of its corporeality. At best, I'd have to say that Folk is a cultural mirage that has caught on rather, trend-wise, in certain margins of society, i.e. those localised Very Small Ponds wherein swim would-be Big Fish, so convinced of their own worthiness they must perpetrate the myth simply to remain damp.

Takes a lot of work though. You get the feeling that one big heat-wave would leave them all high and dry, baking on the dry sand for the want of belonging even though the fathomless oceans of Popular Music Making roll on as they have done for countless millennia, deep, dark and mysterious. In those waters, all life evolved, and still evolves, ever astonishing in a plethora of knew and wondrous ways where people are too busy doing it to ever bother too much with seeking a definition for what it is they are doing, and where taxonomy is a useful passion, not the defining feature.

Whatever happened to Glueman anyway?