Valentine's Post

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care.
-- Billy Bragg, 'A New England'

On Valentine's Day I am inclined to take sides with the cynics and naysayers who would stay at home, single and unloved, awash in their own pathos. But that probably just tick those people off, because I've got me a somebody, and I would be faking it.

The unhappy and lovelorn might enjoy this bizarre gallery of twisted and disturbed valentine images from yesteryear. Whereas those of you with a sunnier mindset should read and contemplate this short story by (one of my favorite writers) Haruki Murakami. It's the literary equivalent of a crystalline pop song.