Every word of this is true; it just doesn't seem like it.

If you thought the craziness with pop star names reached its apogee when Amethyst Amelia Kelly from Australia changed her name to Iggy Azalea, sorry.

There is this Elon Musk guy, not a pop star in the strict sense but a member of the pop glitterati (his net worth is estimated at 39.4 billion semolians) and the founder of Space X and the Tesla Motor Co, which I guess is an electric car that drives itself while you sit there eating Goetze's Caramel Creams and listening to Grimes.

Grimes is a singer of sorts, composer of electronic tone music from Canada. Her real name is Claire Elise Boucher, but she changed it to Grimes because she calls her music "grime" music, which indicates to me that it sure doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard.

She hooked up with Musk a couple of years ago, and lo and behold, these two marvelous people have procreated, and on May 4 she gave birth (he's probably working on a way to bear their second spawn himself) to a live human male baby.

Quiz time:  Did they name this child:
A) Gerald
B)  Rudy
C) X Æ A-12

You know doggone well they named him X Æ A-12, but really, they might as well have named him C. Tell you why in a minute, but for now, let's focus on the fact that they can't settle on how to pronounce little Junior's name.

Grimes says that Æ is how elves spell AI, which is what the brainiacs call articial intelligence.

Someone with a lot of time on their hands asked her on Instagram how you pronounce the kid's name, and she wrote back, "It's just X, like the letter X. Then A.I. Like how you said the letter A then I."

That seems clear enough, but then proud papa Elon told a podcast that Grimes is the one who named the child, but doesn't pronounce it correctly:

"I mean it's just X, the letter X. And then, the Æ is, like, pronounced 'Ash'... and then, A-12, A-12 is my contribution."

These two interesting people currently inhabit the state of California, where somewhere along the line it became necessary to set a rule that says a child can be named only with words that use the 26 letters in the English language.

That means you could move to Los Angeles and name your child "Los Angeles."

And if you're curious, here's her breakdown of what the name means:
She says "X" stood for "the unknown variable," and Æ -- AI -- means artificial intelligence and that means "love" in several languages.

Grimes, or "Grimey" as she likes to be called, adds that part of the boy's name refers to the couple's favorite aircraft.  Get this:

"A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent," she added.

And then Musk came along and she said was, in fact, talking about the "SR-71."

As Little Richard would have said, "Aw Rootie!"

Remember when I said they may as well have called the baby "C"?  Grimes, the woman born Claire Elise Boucher, now says she wants to be known as "c" because that's the symbol for the speed of light.

Yeah, she's that quick.