via Vinyl Maniac
 
When this appeared in my Facebook feed, it took me a moment to realize it was a fake. It went down like this: first, I felt real regret that I’d missed the ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard, with Lux, Ivy, other stars of stage and screen, and Mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant; then I remembered that Lux and Johnny Grant are both dead, and have been so for a while now; and then I read the photo caption and realized I’d “been took.”

The proprietor of the French record store Vinyl Maniac takes credit for faking the long-overdue tribute to the Cramps on his Facebook page, writing:

Depuis ce soir, il y a une étoile pour The Cramps sur le Walk of Fame d’Hollywood !!! C’est mon hommage au meilleur groupe de Rock !

(Translation: “After tonight, there’s a star for the Cramps on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!!! It’s my tribute to the best groupe de Rock!”)

Eyewitnesses say the ersatz plaque—a vinyl application stuck on one of the blank stars in the pavement—is located in front of the Bed Bath & Beyond on Vine. Go there and make your offerings now, before the Man sandblasts it clean to award Wayne Newton an emergency second star. Oooh, wouldn’t that be just like the Man?

Thank you, Vinyl Maniac, for improving Hollywood by correcting this error in our civic signage! Somebody get this guy the key to the city.
 

H/T @StellaKXLU