1. Lovely Kitten vs. Nirvana “Love Gun” Guitar Pick

Huh. Hm. OK, well earlier we stipulated that cat people are pretty nuts, but this is just next-level strange. It is a guitar pick, manufactured in Budapest and reportedly “tested by the Eastern Block Art Community.” On one side, there is an image of one of children’s author Richard Scarry’s signature cartoon kittens, wearing a fine necktie. There is what appears to be another, larger animal (a bear? Another cat?) behind the kitten, wearing what seems to be a robe — it’s hard to tell, whatever, it doesn’t matter, it’s all great. Then you flip the pick over, and there are the lyrics to KISS’s seminal romantic anthem “Love Gun.” Awesome. Got it. Guitar pick. Cartoon cats on one side, KISS lyrics on the other. Where do I type in my credit card number? But then you read the description as penned by “NUNIWOOD” shop owner, that this was “inspired by Kurt Cobain.” So… how possible? Why? Darker imaginations run to the notion that perhaps in present day Hungary music fans and craftspeople alike conflate Cobain with this KISS song in really lurid ways because of his unfortunate end. Or maybe they just think that he was a huge KISS fan, his death notwithstanding. Or do they just think that “Love Gun” is a Nirvana song? (Confusing it perhaps with “Love Buzz”?) The mind reels. What would Paul Stanley say?