The day the music died

The other guitar player is Lee Atwater, and no, this is not photoshopped. I remember thinking the night I saw the two of them playing together on Letterman, "okay, either the counter-culture is officially dead or someone put acid in this beer."

a different kind of pillow talk

Yeah, yeah, I know, "judge not lest ye be judged" and "People who live in glass houses" and all that, but uh.....sometimes it seems like this country is just one big open air freakshow:

Momo, whose real name is Toru Taima, has more than 150 body-pillow covers at home. His current favorite is Karada-chan, a copper-haired sixth grader from the anime “A Direction in the Day After Tomorrow.” She’s fully clothed in the cartoon, but in Momo’s imagination and thus on his pillow cover, she appears naked, her cheeks flushed, her prepubescent nipples hidden by her forearms, her white panties rolled down to her ankles. A translucent square etched onto the pillow cover censors her hairless vagina.
Every night, Karada-chan and at least two other animated preteens, drawn with large pink nipples and exaggerated labia, share a mattress with Momo, one on each side and another on top. “They’re so cute, I can’t stand it,” he said shyly. “It’s like my favorite girl comes to marry me every night. I just can’t stop thinking about them.” When Momo talks about Karada-chan, his mousy face lights up like a kid opening Christmas presents. “Her existence to me is like daughter, younger sister and bride all put into one.” Does he have sex with her? “Yes.” Is he interested in real women? “It’s not like I’m completely uninterested. But the last girl I really liked was hen I was 12 years old.”

And my wife sometimes wonders why I don't want the kids out of my sight in public places. If there was ever a society in dire need of a massive dose of psychotherapy, I'm living in it.

(a hat - tip to Our Man in Abiko)

Woolworths proves the value of studying literature

Just what every little girl dreams of, a bedroom set named after the most famous pedophila victim in the history of Western literature.

C'mon, even Sting has heard of "that book by Nabakov", but staff at Woolworths U.K. and their suppliers are apparently so culturally illiterate that they haven't seen either of the movies, read the book, or been exposed to the name's widespread use in connection with really skeevy porn.

I suppose it's a lost cause to try to get them to stop selling "Dirty Sanchez Refried Beans"