The B-52's Kate Pierson is selling her little love… trailers
Unfortunately, Airstream trailers are made of rust-proof treated aluminum, so we can't make a "tin roof rusted" joke here, either
In what we can only assume is a dedicated effort to drive the parts of our brains devoted to writing punny headlines completely insane, Kate Pierson of The B-52s has announced that she’s selling a series of small, metal, inherently disposable living structures…that cannot, in good conscience, ever be described as “shacks.” (Love-related, or otherwise.) No, in an act of frankly irresponsible linguistic cruelty, Pierson is instead selling “Kate’s Lazy Desert,” a campground she owns with wife Monica Coleman, which features six Airstream trailers, the names of which don’t scan at all, no matter how fast you make Fred Schneider sing them.
Don’t get us wrong: It seems like a lovely enough real-estate opportunity, situated 15 miles from Joshua Tree in southeast California, and “offering spectacular desert views of Goat Mountain and beyond.” If you were looking to buy a campsite situated in the scenic Mojave desert, and not primarily concerned with making a series of fun “Love Shack” jokes, boy howdy, would you be in luck.
And, sure: Could you make a “Roam” joke about getting away from it all? Even note that this is a “Dry Country?” Of course you could. (Also, the trailers themselves, which have cute, pun-adjacent names like “Kate’s Hairstream, Planet Air, or Tiki,” seem nice enough, outfitted in B-52s posters, per the pictures in the listing.) But there’s simply no way you could describe this as an opportunity to own one of Kate Pierson’s “love shacks,” at least without doing some blatantly criminal semantic twisting, and that’s simply not the business we’re in here at The A.V. Club Newswire. There’s also no opportunity to make a “Rock Lobster” joke here; believe us, we’ve spent the last half hour trying.
Actual, non-joke-based sale inquiries for the property can be sent here.