A Young Matt Savage Develops A Taste For Pop Music

The Bay City Rollers were probably the first thing I liked that wasn't a dinosaur or a truck. (I still like dinosaurs, but have become indifferent to trucks.) They were ruthlessly smiley, wore a lot of tartan and spelled out the word Saturday in a hit song.

I hadn't turned six yet, and it just really worked for me.

Whoosh, Splat

Sometimes it's not falling off the cliff that gets you, but the anxiety you suffer through beforehand while anticipating the drop. After that, plummeting can almost feel like a relief.