The Gormogons have a new favorite Russian band, Posledniye tanky v Parizhe, or the Last Tanks in Paris (a pun on The Last Tango in Paris). Turns out that, like the Gormogons, they hate Vladimir Putin and his sleazy, corrupt, authoritarian rule. While I’m sure they’re just considered a sideshow by the Chekists, it takes considerable guts to sing a song called “FSB Whore” after you’ve already been arrested several times in podunk burgs.

So, rock on, guys, in the kind of rebellion that posers in the West affect meaninglessly.

PTVP replaces t.A.T.u. in the four-letter acronymed Russian group listened to most avidly by the Gormogons, and that was really just the Czar, and he dropped them after they got “too old” for their lesbian-schoolgirl act.

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.