cut a rug

Aside from weddings or other milestone occasions, when was the last time you really cut a rug?

The virality of the dance was an uncanny reminder that Wednesday’s toe-tapping was already a meme, thanks to a popular moment from the original mid-’60s TV series “The Addams Family,” in which Wednesday tries to teach the lumbering Lurch how to cut a rug.

Although Biden and Vice President Harris need to be focused on big national issues, I am counting on them to strike up the band, sing a simple song or maybe even cut a rug in the White House.

I certainly miss it, but it’s been many years since I’ve passed any time in that primal pop scene, the club, and it’s even fairly rare for me to cut a rug on my own carpet at home.

What saves “Down in the Weeds” from despair is its stance of battered optimism: “This world is waving goodbye, so cut a rug, let’s throw a party,” Oberst sings with a shrug.