I dunno, it seems like she did the big work in order to get where she is. Granted, she didn't exactly grow up blue collar or poor, but it seems like she put in the work regardless.

I think she came up with Single Ladies before the marriage, and it was out of frustration due to Jay-Z's lack of commitment at that time.

I actually like a handful of her songs, but Jesus Christ, the deification of her is pathetic. Aren't people embarrassed to be gushing over a celebrity the way they do with Beyonce? She's not feeding the poor, for God's sake. She's just making pop songs.

Yeah, I was pretty sure that was the story, and that it didn't have much to do with Beyonce's own actions.

If anyone's ever seen the Louis Theroux documentary "Off-Off-Broadway" there's a great scene where a then unknown, skinny Eddie Pepitone is in an acting workshop where they're encouraged to admit things about themselves as part of an exercise, and he admits to believing that he is a great comedian who can make it in…

Gethard is the man, and it sounds like he's way more financially savvy than he gives himself credit for.

In Bizarro world.

Speaking of Miracleman, I'd love to read Alan Moore's run on the book when it was still Marvelman, but I probably won't until Marvel comics actually stops dicking around and re-releases it.

Those are what count as "awesome" covers, Marah?

Oh, fuck this show. Seriously.

Anyone who thinks this show is in decline is fucking nuts.

At what point does this show become appealing for normal human beings?

What an incredibly arrogant thing to do and say. I'm sure he's a decent guy, but holy shit.

Pretty sure Ted Leo's new record is coming out this year? He's been tweeting about working on it for some time. Three years between albums isn't much of a hiatus.

I've been to Whole Foods many, many times in my life, and the register line is hardly chockablock with people droning on about "pretentious" things. Tell me, what qualifies as "pretentious" to you?

Yeah, it's weird how that show went from satirizing Hank's reactionary conservatism in the early days to basically confirming and siding with it in the later episodes.

Julie Klausner was polluting my Twitter feed with tweets about this show. Is she enjoying it ironically or is she just that bereft of taste?

This is seriously up there in Spielberg's filmography. It's a great film that's also light and funny.

Kanye might be a dick, but I don't think he's an "awful human being." I would reserve that designation for the kind of man who would, say, savagely beat his girlfriend and attempt to throw her out of a moving limousine.

I hope some group of dinguses doesn't come in and fuck up Ooh La La.