Dita Von Teese explains some of it for you

Your Mayor was chatting recently with Dita Von Teese – what? You don’t think I’m cool enough to spend my days hanging with burlesque queens? – and was kind of wondering how Marilyn Manson, AKA Brian Hugh Warner, manages to pull such babes.

Let’s face it, he’s not a stud. He’s a rock star, sure, but he doesn’t even have as good a pickup line as his former collaborator Trent Reznor, who managed such a piquant line as “I want to f@#% you like an animal” in his ditty “Closer.” Yet Marilyn Manson has dated Rose McGowan in the past and is humping Evan Rachel Wood today, and he actually managed to marry Von Teese, who's now filing for divorce.

So what accounts for his magic, anyway?

“It’s kind of hard for me to answer that question at this point, since I’m asking myself what was I thinking, too,” Von Teese told me. “It’s hard to say why (he’s so magnetic); I’m trying to forget.”