I concur that rejecting sexy and cute is definitely empowering. But I don't think she's actually rejecting them. She seems to THINK she's being sexy and fun, and possibly even cute (?) with the teddy bears. But she's really missing the mark.

Take your microwave brownie for one:

Oh, Miley. I know that throwing off the Disney shackles is liberating (former Disney child-stars really do just go nuts, don't they?), and you feel that you could conquer the world and do anything, now, and I know you're really still just a kid, but..... it's not cute or sexy. It's just embarrassing. AND WHAT IS UP…

My nine-year-old is taller than Dr. Ruth. That feels..... bizarre.

LOVE Steve Martin. His episode of the Muppets is my favorite - Kermit really should have let him join the group.

I love when she drops into the New York accent for certain words.

I THINK I see what they were trying to do here, but it just doesn't quite achieve it. It's supposed to be funny. It's just...... not. I almost wonder if it's too tame to really do what it's trying to. It's less edgy than an Axe ad, and about as funny.

Oh. I thought we were going to talk about male nurses and I got all excited, because one of my favorite people in the whole world is a male nurse and I was going to jump in and defend him from all the nasty trolls. Not that he needs defending. He's quite comfy with himself and his nursiness.

I LOVE riding the train! I'm free to entertain the Nanobots; they have outlets at every seat, so I don't have to worry about running down the battery on the 'puter; the food is passable and the dining car is fun; it's not frowned upon to take a walk up and down the aisles. I do get sad that we don't have the nice…

Hamtaro has the jealous.

Marry me Hulk!

The only person I have ever known to cut off hair in a fir of angst was my brother. The male one. He got a blamey letter from his ex, got depressed and drunk and angry (not necessarily in that order) and decided his head was hot because his hair was too thick. So he attacked it with thinning scissors. He awoke to…

I really have nothing against Katy Perry and her brand of bubblegum, vaguely uplifting pop. I mostly find it boring, especially when she does the songs. (When I have heard other people perform her stuff I actually occasionally enjoy it.)

Holla. This is why I went through an atonal phase. (Argento's settings of excerpts from Virginia Woolf's diary are sublime.) Also why I love the French Impressionists. And why Ned Rorem will kick John Rutter's ass to the ends of the earth and back. Silver Swan FTW.

But really, if we want to get all chord-progression geek about it, nearly all major mode, post-baroque music is a macro progression from the tonic to the dominant and back again. It's the journey that matters.

Actually, Dumbledore is probably disappointed. Ron, Ron, we expected better of you.

I KNEW IT!!! Well, I demand my benefits, or you can't be my fluting sensation anymore.

Thank goodness I'm not the only one. There can be only one "Keeping Up" and it involves my girl Hyacinth.

I was noticing that, too. But that seems to be really common with these: the pics are taken from just slightly too high. Do the photographers not know how to stoop? If I have figured it out, can't they? Or are they on ladders to get above the crowd? I haz the confused.