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According to an interview with Rivers Cuomo, the song was written on the same night as “Dope Nose.” The story is that he took “a bunch of Ritalin and had like three shots of tequila,” paced around for a while, then wrote both songs. It was inspired by a male transvestite prostitute known for rambling to people in Santa Monica.

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