Like I said, I don't care that she's not blazing new territory. For instance, I love Nicki Minaj and she too has the agent provocateur thing going on but Minaj doesn't pretend to be some grand icon, just another pop star. I just hate that Lady Gaga calls herself a revolutionary and is essentially exploiting people's…

How Facebook makes hate people DUAN:

Meanwhile, the last time I called a butch a bitch, I ended up walking with a hitch.

Hey, times really are changing. Back in the 80's everyone thought anal would leave you dead.

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Some people really are that dense, particularly with irony and context. That's why we still have idiots who make comments like, "if you wouldn't say it around your grandmother you shouldn't say it in front of your friends." In your case, I bet it was because it was in an office environment.

So, what is this Pearl Jam?

Not many, that's for sure. In Björk's case, she was able to make each album an artistic success because she constantly reinvented herself, but still maintained her essence as a singer. Very few bands can strike that sort of balance, much less do so in a consecutive string of albums. Usually some failure is required to…

Well, the issue also is that when she does it, the context, history, and irony that surround things like the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, or drag, or Pride gets completely lost. It reduces those things from protests against norms and intra-community symbolism to banal hedonism. It'd be the equivalent of a white…

You're all right, Dickey. Björk is amazing. I'd also say Vespertine deserves some credibility as well for its influences, no?

Thing is, I actually liked her stuff until her most recent album came out: it was just good pop music to bump to in a gay club and more importantly it didn't try to be anything else. But then she had to release that uninspired, derivative, self-important horseshit of an album Born This Way. There's literally nothing…

Fucking THANK YOU Drew for this. My partner and I both feel like outcasts because we have the temerity to be openly gay and hate Lady Gaga. Rant after the jump.

When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be A Night In Jail

Pictured: Jonah Hill in 5 years, after being mercifully run out of Hollywood.

The cops in question know it'll work out. Either they'll get off scott-free, or get convicted of assault and receive an automatic offer of employment from the LAPD.

Meanwhile, when Mark Hamill told Hayden Christensen to kiss his ass, he was slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit.

"Why the negative response? I think strongly-worded letters work every time."

Mizzou wanted to get into the B1G last year. If Nebraska had backed out it would've been a done deal. If the conference opens its doors, Mizzou heads to the B1G in a heartbeat (all that SEC talk is homer bullshit). KU would be a great fit as well, but I wonder if K-State will be forced as a package deal. If that's the…

I don't know if a mass exodus to independents would change things as most programs really can't survive without a conference, but if we didn't have the BCS we wouldn't be seeing all this conference movement. The only reason why we're seeing such crazy talk (a Big 12/BE merger being most recent) is because schools are…

The super-conference deal is fucked. I'm not shocked that Pitt & Syracuse left the BE, as both schools were rumored Big 10 additions a few years back, but I am surprised at their timing and the choice of the ACC. It is a shame they're leaving, given that they're charter members and have had so many memorable rivalries…