For yesterday’s Tuesday’s Gone selection, the late Jimmy Ruffin asked, “What Comes of the Broken Hearted?”. And for today’s Weirdo Wednesday, another late great legend from yesteryear offers a potentially profound answer. Well, maybe not so much an “answer” per se, but a different perspective at least. Indeed, according to Frank Zappa, it doesn’t really matter what becomes of the broken hearted, because, well, apparently “Broken Hearts are for Assholes”. Sigh. Leave it to the eternally irreverent Frank Zappa to round out our sardonic ode to Valentine’s Day on a fittingly subversive note. Enjoy his words of weirdo wisdom is this classic live clip from 1981:
