@ronaldpagan: Ahhh OK, I get it now. (And thanks!) Yeah I really hate that too, and it bums me out when I do see it. But that's also why I think more writing that breaks through the stereotypes and is just, well, *honest* instead of relying on press-release cliches or one side of whatever argument happens to be… Read more

@ronaldpagan: That's kind of a "you can't fire me, I quit" attitude though, isn't it? I mean the best music writing (to me) is the sort of stuff that probes why the writer feels a certain way about a certain piece of music, and the piece can be even better if said feelings go against whatever you see as the… Read more

@briardahl: "This is kind of the worst way to talk about gender balances in pop music, not just because it ignores the value of vocalists (anyone ever call non-songwriter Sinatra a genius?), not just because it presumes the authenticity of white guys' music over black women's, but because it doesn't even start to dig… Read more

i shouldn't be posting because i have a music site to run (ahem), but this seems like a really binary discussion of a much bigger problem. sure, rah rah ladies, but is merely putting more women in positions of power going to necessarily recalibrate the way the music business is run or discussed? i doubt it because… Read more

@BlondeGrlz: this is fast for law & order! (especially given the writers' strike and the fact that their season this year didn't start until january) Read more

@BeAgrestic: i'm not blaming; i'm merely pointing out that one writer had a more profile-nut-graf-ready backstory than another did. (and that i thought the one without the backstory made the better movie, when all was said and done.) Read more

as someone who doesn't like diablo cody because she is a cliche-ridden writer who couldn't write a character that wasn't in some way a reflection of herself if she was banned at ever looking at a mirror for the rest of her life, i take offense at the idea that people are backlashing hard against her because "she's a… Read more

she's not coming. makes sense, since a halfway-around-the-world flight isn't really the best way to spend your time 48 hours before your big comeback performance, especially if you're in pretty shaky shape to begin with. Read more

I should also point out that my "Jesus Christ" was about the period shots. I worked at a news organization for a while and it had quite a few obits ready to go, although I don't think we had occasion to use any of the pre-written ones. Read more

Jesus Christ. Read more

erm, can't page six magazine afford fact checkers? WENTZ IS NOT FALL OUT BOY'S LEAD SINGER. IT TAKES LIKE TWO SECONDS OF INTERNET GOOGLING TO FIND OUT THIS FACT. Read more

Um, any of y'all read the "announcement" of her bisexuality on her MySpace page? Read more

@dickdogfood: always the optimist, you are! Read more

Please kill me [tm]. Read more

the global credit crisis can't come soon enough. Read more

@UkraineNotWeak: co-sign. or does it not count when it's rerunning old clips of imus? jeez. Read more

my mom sewed my name into the ass of my pants when i was six years old and jealous of my friend's jordache jeans. it was pretty much the best thing to ever happen to me, although i didn't think so at the time. Read more

with the blinding white jacket and the manic panic "accident," he looks like the spawn of the sta-puft marshmallow man and the girl in the wendy's logo. Read more

"A story on Dani Stahl's trip to Seattle to customize Microsoft's "cool new media player" the Zune! A four-page ad spread for Zune!" Read more

jonbenet lives! Read more