It’s interesting that a lot of people demand music during sex.

We mean, occasional background noise — sure. But are there really people out there — besides those responsible for WB shows in the 1990s — who require a sex playlist?

Billboard thinks so. Reuters reports that the music mag recently compiled a list of the 50 most popular songs about sex, mostly based on chart performance.

Sadly, the majority of the top 10 aren’t sexy at all. We guess there’s a difference between being “about sex” and “sexy.”

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Thanks, Chris Gallo, for taking the picture when I didn't have a camera or phone on me

The North Pole? Nope. Apparently ol’ St. Nick is from North Carolina.

And drives a Dodge mini van.

I guess he had to upgrade from reindeer.

check out the b box! {thanks, THE BALTIMORE SUN

With a little encouragement on our parts, the Cafe Hon Flamingo arrived on Twitter yesterday.

An improvement from Chris Brown’s bow tie a few months back.

Here are some of our favorite Tweets:

“I heard they arrested a junkie this morning at 7-11 but I wouldn’t know. I was in a dumpster.”

“@FakeSheilaDixon I’ll never live with you, your furs or your gift cards”

“RT @AmyWoo: Support Cafe Hon’s Pink Flamingo, add a #twibbon to your avatar now! - http://bit.ly/2EqeY5″

“@jjthomas I think Heros is a piece of s— too.”

“Big Bird is kind of a douche, I’m just saying.”

And trying to make good on our promise of giving some swag or movie tickets to the person who created the account:

“@bthesite unless it’s tickets to Pink Flamingos, I’m not interested but thanks. You should have a contest to fight drugs in Hampden.”

“@bthesite Free movie tickets for whoever snitches on the junkie that barfed on the car in the @cafehon parking lot?”

Here’s hoping for a b box/flamingo crime fighting team.

Has it really come down to this, Snoop?

Spotted this while shopping in Bel Air.

In case you can’t tell what it is (or are too weirded out by Snoop’s face to look), it is a Snoop Dogg brand dog toy in the shape of a microphone … just in case your dog feel the need to bust a rhyme.

Which happens all the time in my household. Thanks, Snoop.

The “nerd” target on Pepsi’s controversial iPhone app {thanks, AP}

PepsiCo Inc. is facing criticism for an iPhone application that promises to help men “score” with two dozen stereotypes of women by giving users pickup lines and a scoreboard to keep track of their conquests.

An apology by the company — which is using the app “Amp up before you score” to market its Amp energy drink — is igniting more online criticism. But the company is sticking by the app.

Spokeswoman Nicole Bradley said the application is available only to people 17 and older who “choose to opt in to the experience.”

“The application was designed to entertain and appeal to Amp’s target. We’ll continue to monitor the feedback from all parties and act accordingly,” she said. The free application, released in the last week, was still available Wednesday morning.

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Happy World Zombie Day everyone!

In celebration, here’s a zombified photo of yours truly:

oh noes, my face!

Frightening.

If you make one (or three, like I did), remember to post them in the photo gallery.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my day job, it’s this: Baltimore’s a town that isn’t afraid to push the limits of local advertising. From lawyer Barry Glazer’s now legendary “Don’t urinate on my leg and tell me it’s raining” ad to Scotty Donahoo’s karaoke car sales spots, we’ve carved out a kitschy niche with laser-point precision.

Just when I think we’ve surged beyond the very boundaries of what’s allowable by those uptight chumps at the FTC, I stumble upon something like this while cutting through downtown to avoid the I-95 tolls:

Does that say what I think it says? [photo by yours truly]

Yeah, that says what I think it says. {photo by yours truly}

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Watch out for Burt Reynolds

Saw this gem on the back of a car at the Harford Mall in Bel Air.

And as a fan of mustaches — and facial hair in general — I have to say I’m a little concerned.

Let’s just say I’ll be keeping an eye on Tom Selleck.

And you thought your “number” was high.

The average Briton has had so-called “indirect sex” with 2.8 million people, according to new research.

Agence France-Presse reports that based on data collected from over 6,000 adults, an online calculator developed by U.K.’s Lloyds Pharmacy chain lets people work out the total number of sexual partners they have “indirectly had.” More fun than doing your taxes! Maybe.

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Sure, at this point you pretty much know what to expect in this space.  You’ve gotten valuable, webalicious life lessons about how not to raise children. How you should never trust a response to your classified ad. How you should always look behind you.

And now, insight into a cross-section of American culture that may as well be served witha  side-order of macaroni and eaten with a spork.  I present The People of Walmart, a photojournalistic oddity odyssey into the bowels of the most successful retail center in the history of mankind.

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