[Ghoulish Delight]

On the subject of cultural influence, CP and I are running into a prime example of how one can be both culturally influenced and have your own mind/tastes/personality.

For the new place, we're shopping for a club chair. Now, I can say without a doubt that had club chairs not been all the rage over the last several years, we would not be looking for a club chair. Before that, I kinda appreciated club chairs, but they weren't on my radar as something I liked. It took their sudden ubiquitous apperance in every furniture display known to man for us to realize that, yeah, it was something we liked.

So now that we have the opportunity to do some furniture shopping, a club chair was high on our list. But we're quickly learning that the fad has passed us by. The selection of club chairs in most furniture stores has gone down, and prices up. But, unlike people who are slaves to fads, that doesn't change the fact that we like them. Sure, the fad is what woke us up to the fact that we like them, but we didn't like them because they were the fad. We liked them because we liked them, and now that the fad has passed, we still like them.

Now, the new furniture fad seems to be bar-height dining tables. Those are lame, fad or not.