Thanksgiving Turkeys: Let's Talk Bronx Mowgli Wentz

As you likely know, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz and Irish jig purist Ashlee Simpson recently welcomed their first child into the world. The happy even occurred a week ago today. Once the baby is born, everything is checked to see what works, and what doesn't. As far as we know, the baby is healthy and normal.

Great. Next step? Name the shortie. James, perhaps. Maybe John? Or Zach, Steven, Didier, Dimitri, Dalton, Dakota, Daisuke or Dajuan.

Or, um, Bronx. Bronx Mowgli.

Yes, everyone's talking about the unusual handle Pete and Ashlee laid on their little guy. People have been speculating that it's a joke. It's NOT a joke, according to Wentz, who's been talking to Ryan Seacrest:


"It definitely is his name."

OK, roger that. So... Mowgli? As in The Jungle Book? By Rudyard Kipling, noted and brilliant English expat poet and writer, the author of If..., a man who declined knighthood and later earned the ire of Orwell, who somewhat accurately referred to Kipling as the prophet of British imperialism? Um, probably that Kipling, right Pete? But in this Hot Topic world, one must ask, Is Kipling cool?


"Kipling's really cool. 'The Jungle Book' was something that me and Ashlee bonded over, so ... it's a cool name."

Yes! Kipling is, indeed, "cool." And what about 'Bronx'?


"We'd been throwing ["Bronx"] back and forth a while ago. I feel weird because all these people have all these ideas on what it means ... It's kind of cool to leave the narrative what it is."

And that narrative...?


"I don't think anybody knows what the real story is of why or how."

Wait, do you mean you're keeping it secret? Or that not even YOU guys know what it means? Guessing the former?

Fall Out Boy releases their new album, Folie a Deux, on December 16th. Bronx Mowgli is, presumably,  right now being burped.