Entry 62: "Popped Diva"

Yo!

Announcement time.... Starting tonight, I won't be the only person posting to this blog. I've brought in a close friend of mine to help keep this going consistently. We'll be alternating weeks, sometimes going a couple weeks at a time, to keep things random and unexpected. We'll start off at every other week, and move from there. The first entry follows right after mine, at the end. Also, the big top-secret project I've been hinting at off-and-on, pretty much since this blog began, has started to take off, and I'll be officially announcing what it is, and how you can get involved in this rather significant media revolution next week. A big change is coming..........

Back to current topics, though, a lot of interesting things have happened in the last month:

Alberto Gonzales resigned from the office of, as Bill Maher puts it, "Attorney Generalissimo..."

Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti passed away...

Senator Larry Craig tapped his foot in the WRONG bathroom stall.
...and later rethinks his guilty plea.

South Carolina is now officially known for producing the most intelligent, thoughtful and not at all rambling beauty pageant contestants...

and ladies and gentlemen, it's official! Britney Spears' career is dead. That's right. I said it.

That last revelation was made official just last night, at the 23rd annual MTV Video Music Awards as Britney struggled to keep up with her own song lyrically and dance-wise. Rather fitting, though, to have a subpar performance to go with subpar lip-synching to a subpar song this girl didn't even write herself. Oops, sorry. Not "girl." Brit hasn't been one of those since around late-2001. I meant "woman." The song said so. Anyway, so audience members hung their heads in shame... Columnists and fellow bloggers are rightfully apalled at that performance... and if you've been following this so-called singer's exploits especially since the Federline divorce, you know it's past time for those kids to be finally rescued from this.

Now, believe it or not I was one of those people who was willing to forget all about all the missteps Britney's made throughout her career: Crossroads... In The Zone... This gem of a soundbyte (check around the 00:08 mark)... Reproducing with Kevin Federline TWICE... Chaotic... etcetera, etcetera... All of that was water under the bridge, because I optimistically hoped there was a small trace of that sweet little eleven year old some of you may remember from weekday afternoons on the Disney Channel, before they got overloaded with... Miley Cyrus.

(*shudder....)

By the way, apparently, the ATVAS have reduced themselves to handing out Emmys like miniature Butterfingers at Halloween, but that's another news topic.

So come to find out, as you no doubt already saw if you checked out that YouTube linking from earlier, and here, all that blind faith was for naught. Sorry, unrealistically loyal Britney fans. We pretty much all knew that she built most of her post-MMC career by lip-synching, but at least I will give her credit for not doing a ridiculous half-dance off stage when the lip-synching started to fall apart, like SOME wannabe singers. Next step: being made into a self-parodying caricature, which gets its own show on Comedy Central. Twice.

Bottom Line: Maybe Karl Rove had the right idea. Sometimes, it's just time to call it quits.

...But that's just me.

See ya.

-D.

The VMA's.Yes,I know you're sick of them.

What is up with the VMA's?It's a bad sign when your host is the highlight of the night,and your supposed highlight turns out to be your ho-light.But alas that is what happened last night,Sarah rocked and Brit ...well Brit was lucky to be upright.Add in Tommy Lee and Kid Rock throwing down in the audience over their mutual ex Pam Anderson And I'm wondering if The VMA's should be moved to Spike TV.Honestly,can anyone explain the logic behind serving drinks?The event planners have clearly never seen the Vibe awards.I think next year a little more common sense should be exercised.But hey,that's just me