wolfeden said:
It's taking me awhile to come 'round to Pop, I'm not sure I ever will really, because my 'formative years' exposure was from UF-on....
something in me just shrieks in horror at him with no hair...
I'm getting used to the Pop look, but good god I STILL can't wrap my brain around him shaved bald. Just can't look at it.
I go hide in this thread sometimes. LOL
I completely understand, Wolfy! I felt the same way up until last week. I was a fan since War and UF and the sight of Pop Bono made me cringe! It was the combination of the haircut, the glasses, and the muscle shirt! I ignored or shut out all pics form that era. Thinking about how he used to look in the 80's really upset me during the Pop era, I'd look at pics at him and go, WHY? I had a strong aversion to anything Pop. But in the past, if people found out you didn't like Pop, they were kind of mean about it, either flaming you or joking on you. It only made me hate him even more. But recently, this GREAT group of girls we have here are so nice and so cool and so much fun, I appreciated their love for Pop and starting looking at him again. They called his haircut Pop chop and I thought that was cute. There were actually some pics I LOVED! The ones in my sig and avatar are the ones that did it for me. He looked so CUTE with his little Pop chop and I thought, this is hot, I've missed so much by avoiding all these pics! There are still some pics I don't like, like anything in the muscle shirt with his hair shaved so far down you could see his scalp, all sweaty, with the orange glasses and the veins popping in his neck. I will never like those, but there are pics in every era that aren't his best I guess. I don't like the boot camp shaved way down crewcut, or the completely bald head, but come on, look at how cute he is with his Pop chop in my sig, especially the orange one. You might just fall in love
I am madly in love with the Pop chop now! I love it really short on his head like in those pics. There's something so sexy about it. Of course, there is nothing like JT Bono
But I feel so good I have finally made my peace with Pop Bono and have accepted him with the rest. I love all eras now, so I have a bigger pic collection!
I think it really started with the Vampire Squad and girls talking about his sexy neck. I used to not like his hair any shorter than his shoulders (like Elevation) but when I got into the neck I started paying attention to it, and of course the shorter the hair the more neck you get. So I started to LOVE the pics of him with shorter hair. But I still didn't like Pop and avoided it. But of course, as we know now, it did eventually get me. POP CHOP!