Smack My Bitch Up has one of the most undeniable beats/hooks EVER. Proof being that I hate hate hate overly repetitive songs (Usher and JT, I'm looking at y'all) but it doesn't even ping me in that song.

It's pretty catchy! I like the Fatboy Slim remix as well.

I have no doubt that Kanye's race, age and music genre comparative to Taylor Swift's all factor into the hullaballoo.

Really? Huh. I never saw it like that. I just saw Kanye being Kanye.

Really? Huh. I never saw it like that. I just saw Kanye being Kanye.

In the reaction?

Well, most of the reaction I saw was the hilarious meme, so I don't know what you're referring to.

If he's a dick to Jay-Z or someone else adult/black/male, it's not even a story. Much less a Whole Thing.

then woman-on-woman violence is no joke either

Violence, period. It's not like it had me standing up and cheering, nor would I have if it had been a woman beating a man. Just that it's not a feminist issue, exactly, if it's not...or maybe it's still a feminist issue if it's a woman being beaten--it's just a different issue.

That having been said, it's a great song to hit shit to.

And that having been said, the Usher and JT I like, I really really like. But I don't have an extensive knowledge of either of their repertoires.

Not to confuse it with the JJ/JT debacle, but I think what Kanye did was, as my mother would say, showing his underpinnings outta doors. I think he deserves pretty much all the mocking and censure he gets. He's a cloddish buffoon, and I laugh that he yammered himself out of a Grammy invite. I just don't think that Taylor Swift deserves that much sympathy. She wasn't scarred.

I wish I could click on that Catherine Tate-ish link.

Thanks, Trudy. I love Pink, too. I saw her crazy circus concert in Australia(well, on TV) She is crazy-flexible...it's kind of fascinating. And, by fascinating,I kind of mean porn. Though I'm not usually into other blondes.ETA: Kanye totally acted like a dick, but they reported it like he puked on her then exposed himself, at which point I felt a little bad for him, despite the etiquette fail. When I actually saw it later, I was caught between "What a tool," and "That's it?!"(Not all that unusual for a Piven fan.)

Taylor Lautner's opening monologue on SNL about Kanyegate was pretty funny. [link]

AND he'll be 18 in a matter of weeks!

Taylor Lautner plays opposite Taylor Swift in Valentine's Day. Modern naming fail.

I've come to learn that Joe has a THING for very tall women of a certain age. His top 3 celebrity crushes are Jane Kaczmarez, Allison Janney, and Felicity Huffman.

He also, it seems, has a crush on Aaron Sorkin and Linwood Boomer, because a lot of the reason we love these women is they've played extremely-well written and verbose characters.

32 yo black male rapper interrupts 19 yo blonde white country singer, and you don't think it factors in? I think the "average viewing public" and especially Taylor Swift fans were unaware of Kanye's previous shenanigans, and may not have been familiar with him at all.

That is genius.

Oh, man, we made a whole list of paper titles on the way back from a TV/Gender conference in Williamsburg (keynote speaker - Jane Espenson!). They were awesome. I still have the list at home but I don't remember any of the other ones.