The story cited not one source. They essentially said, “Someone called us up and said that they overheard these two guys saying these things.” I’m taking it with a grain of salt. Mostly because I love “The Affair” and “The Wire” and Jimmy McNulty in particular, and I’m a person of size. But also because, come on. That…

Thanks for paying that horrifying image forward.

BAM. Exactly. This is why if I were to go back and rewrite my master’s thesis, it would be called “Why Kanye Matters.” If you’re interested in race, power, privilege, gender, art, fame/celebrity, class, even American regionalism, you’ll see it all playing out in the narratives we tell about him.

Interruptions and hypothetical violence are totally equal. Good work.

Oh my Christ. It wasn’t a fucking human rights violation—it was an interruption during a meaningless awards show that was redressed by Beyoncé within an hour of it happening. He did something stupid while drunk. I managed to do that without being blacklisted by everyone on earth for most of my 20s.

I’d love to introduce you to my positively psychotic ex-boss, who was female.

Jill Zarin has always thought she was somebody...in a way that forces you to simultaneously admire her unrelenting self-delusion and hope very much that she’s seeing a very talented mental health professional.

For a dude whose body I begrudgingly admit is surprisingly bangin’, the Biebs has a terrible ass.

Oh, Jesus. Can these two stop????? I don’t know if I’m more sickened by them trying to pass this off as not something their managers dreamed up or by the idea that it’s a real relationship and he kissed her hand that way.

Same. Also, if Lemonade is truly autobiographical (and I have my doubts—it might just have been a great idea to sell a really bomb, but fictional, album), the line in “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” “you can’t recreate her/you’ll never recreate her” makes me think of Rita Ora, someone who Jay tried to make into a Beyonce-esque…

My money is on this being a contractual relationship to raise his profile super high to make him the 007 front-runner. And to that I say, “Fuck you, Hiddleswift! #IDRIS4EVER.” (Yes, I speak in hashtags.)

Am I on glue or did Looking have the same problems as Girls (lack of diversity, loathsome main character), except Looking gets punished for it and Girls just skates? I can be convinced I’m wrong here, but comparing the only two seasons of this show and Girls’ first two, they sure seem alike in their problems.

Thank you! And the Paul/Pablo in question is the Apostle Paul, a totally different guy. The sentence is a mess and/or the facts are just...wrong.

Oh, I’m white. I knew (other white) people who had children named “Payden” and “Cash.” As in “paid in cash.” A terrible pun. And yet, no one says anything about those (real) people but the urban legend of Lemonjello and Oranjello persists, because LOL black people/immigrants/people with limited literacy (I’ve heard…

Absolutely all of this seems true. It is also true that if she married him at least in part to advance her career that he still could have been abusive.

KIM: Babe, can you look at these swatches for the paint in the new guest suite? I think Lime Zest is my favorite.

Wait, his band was the sort that was played on the radio??? Now I’m really worried that I accidentally heard/liked a Shit Station* song and didn’t realize it.

You know, you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting some racist making fun of stereotypical “black” names like Shaniqua. But white folks can name their kids Trace and Track like it’s nothing. That shit is fucked.

Ah. I figured “clean up girl” could mean a lot of (misogynistic, slut-shaming) things, not necessarily this. But maybe we both get to be right about who said what about what sex acts of some c-list former reality stars and their thousand-year-old boat captain boyfriend. :)

No, Holly. Kendra has never said a bad word about Hef. It’s Holly who’s aired the dirty laundry (and more power to her. If he didn’t make her sign a NDA, he’s even more senile than I thought).