When “Poker Face” first came out, it was “featured” on last.fm so I watched it. I thought it was really well-produced with a great video, but found the music itself totally bland and lacking any personality or redeeming value. Now, I’ve watched Lady Gaga reach impressive heights of adulation and ubiquity in a very short [...]

A portrait depicting Michael Jackson on horseback, dressed in regal garb and attended by two cherubs, has been sold at auction for $175,000, a US art gallery said.
“Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II,” commissioned by the late pop star, who died on June 25, was sold to a German collector at the Art Basel show, [...]

My very serious and always eloquent friend Virgil makes an ugly point on his blog:

If our culture places little value on the lives of women, the lives of black women are assigned none at all. Besieged by men of all colors, black women, who in a just world would enjoy the solidarity of their [...]

For conservatives, the causal connection between virtue and success is not merely ideological, it is also deeply personal. It forms the basis of their admiration of themselves. If you ask a rich person whether he ascribes his success to good fortune or his own merit, the answer will probably tell you whether that person inhabits [...]

It’s been a month. I still can’t believe it. Here, have some desktop wallpapers, 1920×1200. Click for full size and try not to cry.

Michael Jackson at Neverland, 1993, by H. Benson

“As details about an alleged assault of Rihanna by her boyfriend, Chris Brown, emerged, fans and the entertainment industry grappled with what it could mean for the future of the young star’s career.”
Really? That’s not what I’ve been “grappling” with.
I’ve been “grappling” with why the media is so sympathetic to an asshole who beat up [...]

The other day I observed that one of my friends in Seattle had added his middle name as “Hussein” on facebook, presumably as a nod of support toward Obama and stab of mockery at those politicians and media clowns who would play on the “terrorist” implications of the name. I thought this waas hysterically funny [...]

Pick up a copy of the New York Times today and check out the back of the weekend section for a fun little article and photo – nice preview of the madness to come tomorrow. All preliminary response has been great and points to this year being a smashing success. I CANNOT wait. (As a [...]

ZOMBIECON, the annual zombie street party/Halloween warmup/consumer culture commentary/drunken costume spree, now in it’s 4th amazing year, is THIS SATURDAY.
I’m very proud of the work we’ve done on the event this year and expect it to be the best yet, giant steps beyond last year. Even the New Yorker agrees in these rough financial times, [...]

I’ve noticed as I’ve grown older that all tabloid stories everywhere increasingly collapse in on themselves. So, in honor of Michael Jackson’s secret love affair with Pamela Anderson I have made you this desktop background.

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