Poor Rick Astley.

Poor me, too. I followed a link to YouTube this AM only to have a very strange promo on the top of the page. Curiosity might’ve killed the cat, but it damn near blinded me.

What the hell is this?

Wow. I have a cousin who has been totally in lurve with him (and Englebert Humperdinck aka “Engie” ) since I was a kid. She bought me my first two albums- the Grease soundtrack, and Manilow’s greatest hits.

That was a long damn time ago, but I sort of remember that he had an upper lip back then. Now he looks like the world’s most cheerful zombie.

(Incidentally, the only reason I shared the pain with you was that the universe told me to do it. Srsly! I flipped on my Sirius right after seeing this and the original song was on. It was more than a little freaky, so I decided to pass it on. Lucky you.)