Crush

Yesterday, I added 'Current Crush' to my profile. A friend saw it and sent me a bunch of links for Mike Doughty pages. I wrote her back and asked her what her problem was, didn't she understand a crush? Turns out, she doesn't!
I didn't know there was a girl out there who didn't know the basics of having a crush. The first rule of crush is never, ever get more information
This is really the most important rule.
Perhaps, a brief description of a crush is necessary? The dictionary, well dictionary.com, defines thusly:

15.Informal.
a.an intense but usually short-lived infatuation.

Personally, I think infatuation is too strong.
I have years of experience on crushes. I have had a crush on a rock before. I still harbor a crush on Jack Skellington. So tall, thin, clever, witty... ::swoon::
Where was I? Ah, yes. Crushes are very fragile things. Like analogies, they do not hold up to scrutiny. A crush can be broken, yes broken, by a word, an action, a tiny bit of information that doesn't fit the slim boundaries of the crush.
My current crush is based solely on the album Haughty Melodic. The music, lyrics, voice of Mike Doughty. It doesn't, as is the case with many crushes, have anything to do with the real, flesh-and-blood Mike Doughty. He would only spoil the crush. He's a decent looking fellow, from the liner notes, so I mean him no ill-will.
How old is he?
Don't tell me!
Is he married with tons of little children with lovely unique names?
I do not want to know.
Who are his influences? Where was he born? How tall is he?
Good gravy! What a way to mess things up!
A crush is simply liking someone or something for that one thing you know it by at the time. A crush is not wishing you could meet them. A crush is taking that one little piece you see and admiring it. It's like looking at a man's wrist and admiring the way that small bone stands up and throws a light shadow. The slim line of the wrist giving way to the broad base of the palm. That wrist is the crush. To see the rest of the arm or, horror of horrors, the person, would likely break the crush.
Crushes are fragile little things. They required no work, but a little protection.