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November 19, 2009

I Got a Sunshine Enema and I Think Everything's Gonna Come Out Alright

Bottle_250Feeling a little irregular? Longing for that 'light as a feather' sensation? What you need is a Sunshine Enema.

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November 17, 2009

Busking on the Internets: Social Media and the New Music Economy

Opencase Frustrated by the lack of autonomy and profit gained from signing with a major record label, many bands have gravitated toward independent labels since the mid 90s. However, with the popularity of social media, some artists are taking that pursuit of independence one step further, cutting the middleman out altogether.

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November 12, 2009

I Sort Of Didn't Mind Taylor Swift on Saturday Night Live. Hold Me.

Taylor-swift So, I watched Taylor Swift host Saturday Night Live last weekend and I thought she did a pretty good job.

Of course, this is the kind of confession that's going to get me shunned by my peers, banned from certain websites and dropped by all my Twitter followers that aren't porn. (Thanks for sticking with me, '@Watch_me_ride_me_Misty.")

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November 11, 2009

Céline Dion's In Vitro Second Pregnancy Did Not Take

Celine_dionBeing one of the Canadian minority here on MamaPop, I feel that I am uniquely suited to talk about Céline Dion and how deeply apologetic a good number of us northerners feel that we allowed her and her saccharine brand of wailing celebrity to grow to prominence. Her fertility woes leave me feeling conflicted, though, because now I feel like I have to be nicer about her talent, which is really hard, because we Canadians have had to hear a lot more of her than anyone else, and my ears, they have suffered TWENTY YEARS of violation.

Personal conflict aside, though, it is sad to hear that Céline Dion's in vitro pregnancy has failed after she, 41, and her husband René Angélil, 67, made an excited announcement in August that she was pregnant with their second child.

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November 10, 2009

New Video: Lady Gaga Bad Romance

Lady-Gaga-Bad-Romance-500x500 Deconstruct please. Personally I think it's flawless. Lady Gaga is to me what meth is to Lindsay Lohan: fun, dangerous, and addictive. Yaya Gaga.

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Dear Hip-Hop: No Mo' No Homo, Plz

Kanye_pink As an unapologetic feminist, I have a love-hate relationship with hip-hop. While I love a great deal of both mainstream and underground hip-hop, I am often uncomfortable with the violent, misogynistic and homophobic themes in some (though not all) of the music I listen to. 

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November 06, 2009

Free Pixies EP Available For Your Downloading Pleasure!

Pixies1 To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of their righteous album Doolittle -- which came out back in a long lost era of mine, one before I had a kid and a house and fine-line wrinkles, when I was still kind of cool and didn't give a damn how much fiber I was getting in my diet (sob) -- the Pixies have made available for download a free Live EP! REJOICE!

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November 05, 2009

Glee: Best and Worst Songs So Far

Glee_somebody_to_love One more week, gleeks. With the recent release of Glee: The Music, Volume 1, I'm sure many of you obsessed fans have already determined your favorite Glee numbers. I know I have, so I've compiled a list of what I think are the best and worst numbers so far this season.

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Former *NSYNC Member, Joey Fatone, Has a Sense of Humor About Himself

Joey_fatone_nsync_small Former baritone member of the famous boy band *NSYNC, Joey Fatone, 32, has a sense of humor about himself. This is brilliant, especially when so many once-wildly-popular people end up sounding like whiny children.

Want to know how we know he has a sense of humour about himself? Check out what's under the black bar over his t-shirt:

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Weezer Snuggies: The Perfect Marriage of Nerdery and Warmth

Weezer_snuggie Before I get into this, I want to remind you that I will not tolerate any Snuggie haters. Snuggies are awesome and if you can't deal with my luxurious, ultra-soft fleece, get out of the kitchen. Or off of my couch. Whatever. I'll cut you and your trapped hands.

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The Famous Faces of Domestic Abuse

Chris_Brown_Rhianna The Internet is abuzz this week with news of Rhianna's 20/20 and Good Morning America interviews (Jodi also wrote about Rhianna speaking out about her domestic violence experience here), the ones she's giving in conjunction with the release of her new album, Rated R. Now, on the eve of those media appearances, a few additional people are speaking out about what specifically happened to Rhianna and about domestic violence in general.

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November 03, 2009

Spike Jonze Slaps Kanye West

Kanye_west_spike_jonze Well, not really, but in a viral promotion video for a short film collaboration between the two, Jonze answers the eternal question that Rick James reportedly posed to Charlie Murphy one night, long ago, in the China Club. That question, of course, being, "What did the five fingers say to the face?"

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October 20, 2009

Katy Perry Is The Insect Avatar of our Collective Unconscious

Katy_perry I thought I knew how it worked.

I thought I had a handle on our basic hopes and dreams: live a little, work a little, make a whack of money if possible, and die happy.

Then I heard a Katy Perry song in a record store, and I understand how I wrong I was.  But first I will tell you about the time in 2004 I went to Vegas.

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Joss Whedon To Direct Glee! *SQUEE*

Glee Oh, come on. Like that news, like no news ever before it, doesn't warrant a big, high-pitched, girly SQUEEEEE.

SQUEEEEE.

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October 19, 2009

John Mayer and the "Hang In There!" Motivational Poster Kitten with Sides of Courtney Love and Scott Baio

John_mayer John Mayer bugged me on Twitter this morning, and not for the usual reasons he bugs me, like that time he told me too much about his penis or the thousand times he has made lamesauce jokes. I should probably just stop reading his Twitter feed, but like with Courtney Love and her translator, Courtney Translated, I keep going back to witness him in 140 characters or less.

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I'ma Let You Finish Art Speigelman, But Kanye West Will Have The Greatest Graphic Novel OF ALL TIME

Kanye-book Kanye West has a book coming out. Oh, yay.

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October 08, 2009

Usher Writes Song About Divorce and Shocking: It Is Not Nice

Usher-and-tameka And just when we thought the Usher and Tameka divorce was going to be civil.  Wait, did we ever think that?

Usher has just released a new song and it is all about his divorce.  Because what makes a better song than a divorce?

The song even references firing his mother as his manager because Tameka wanted him to.  "I gave my heart and turned my back against the world 'cuz you were my girl," he sings, continuing, "I done damn near lost my mama/I done been through so much drama/I done turned into the man I never thought I'd be/I'm ready to sign them papers."  Ouch.

You can hear the full song after the jump.

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