What the Hootie?!
Here's the introduction to Villanelles are Retarded by Maureen Thorson and Shafer Hall. Big Game Books, 2006.
When my friends, Lizzy McGlynn and Mark Reilly, got married, I gave them a copy of How to Cook Everything, but with this revised introduction glued into the front. I also wrote my own name over Mark Bittman's with a Sharpie™ where ever possible.
This is a song by the tremendously talented Gene Cawley. From his blog, Baked Ziti: "I was at a bar with writer/poet Jennifer L. Knox, when the subject of the Beach Boys came up. I love them, she absolutely hates them. She did, however, write some lyrics for a proposed mock-Beach Boys song. I couldn't resist putting them to music. Originally, I wanted to make it an uptempo number, but I settled on a ballad."