Writer/comedian Rachel Bloom sent Ray Bradbury a very peppy, very public and very NSFW birthday message with her music video, "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury," which has been viewed more than 630,000 times on YouTube since it was posted last week.

In an interview with a SeattlePI.com blog, she says she'd have a less-sexually charged message for the writer, who turns 90 Sunday, if she met him in person.

"I would say very earnestly that I am overwhelmed with how well he combines such mind-blowingly cool ideas with the realism of how humans deal with these ideas," she told Booktryst. "That's what struck me especially about Martian Chronicles or The Illustrated Man.... I found myself as emotionally engaged as I was mentally. If I really met him, I would be nothing but respectful and probably like the 12-year-old boy I secretly am inside."

So, why does the 23-year-old Bloom find the legendary author of Fahrenheit 451 and other sci-fi classics so hot?

"The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence," she said. "Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer."

Bloom tweeted a photo purportedly showing Bradbury watching the video this weekend. Find out more about the making of her Glee-style tribute in Booktryst's interview, "The Girl Who (NSFW) Loves Ray Bradbury." And watch what is probably the first of many lame literary crush-song pretenders below: "Fuck Me, Anne Rice."

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