But this post is not about Jim Butcher's going-on-fourteen-books amazing series that you should immediately read . (hint hint).
It is about Polka!
(just in case you didn't know what polka sounded like because everyone you've ever met has been a hater)
Polka is amazing!
But what surprises me most about polka is how many people dislike it. Passionately. They despise polka so much it's amazing there hasn't been a legendary polka-music-burning like what happened to all the books in Germany before WWII. (I'm not trying to minimize the horror of what happened back then by comparing it to polka. But in all seriousness, I've met more people who hate polka than I've met Anti-Semites. Why are there no Polka Hate groups? No scary tatoo clad men running around destroying clarinets and accordions? I'm sure most people would be glad of their absence. Not me! But some people)
But I think I've discovered why there is no middle ground with polka.
I know--it's a big shocker that I discovered the secret after all this time, but it took a keen mind and countless hours of--oh, wait a minute, it only took listening to three polka songs in a row to understand.
People hate polka because they don't like being happy.
No really!
Polka is so ridiculously joyously fun-filled that it leaves no room for anything but having an amazingly ridiculous joy-packed fun-filled time.
So if you have any tendencies towards gloominess at all--no matter how small or slight--you don't like polka. It will annoy you. You'll wish that it never existed and that someone had killed the first person to invent it before they wrote a single note of it.
So you and all your grumpy-gill friends can go stand in a corner discussing how much you hate the rain. I'll just be over here cavorting with everyone else who wants to have a good time.
Polka will never die!
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