Trite

If you do not believe that everything is improved by being on a stick I will need to refer you to a specialist. Also, if you Google "food is improved by putting it on a stick" you get "100 Best Companies for Working Moms."

Their search algorithm is all grown up, clearly.

I drew this because I often use "sunshine lollipops and rainbows" as an adjective or noun phrase when I feel like being a little snarky about something that is pretty nice (and usually trite.) In the little world of this blog the phrase itself is now trite from overuse, and it doesn't really help it's case to know it's a reference to this Lesley Gore song (a link perfectly safe for work except for the spectacle you may make of yourself while laughing at her sweater and her "dancing.")

As I write about Lesley Gore (a thing I do far more often than the average person) it's worth mentioning that I recently found out that she's gay. I am a little obsessed with this fact because of the way it turns her early 60's bubblegum pop offerings upside down - talk about refreshing all things trite! It's also nice to know I'm not the first person to find this worth mentioning- a character in the movie Grace of My Heart (all about music-making in the 60s) features a character based on her called Lilly Banquette (I find both this last name and "Gore" to be unfortunate, but her real name was Sue Goldstein so.... fire the Hollywood guy whose job it is to rebrand people.)

So anyway, the sketch. Just a quick thought I found it easy enough to immortalize. I like the nice clean lines of simple sketches I can do in sharpie marker. I'm the person who usually, when I'm looking for an online image, specifies that I want clip art. Possibly clip art guy is old enough now that he's gone from trite to retro.