The "Ellen" producers totally busted out the Luscious Jackson "Ladyfingers" song cue to introduce longassfingernails-lady Lee Redmond to the show! Luscious Jackson! Remember, they were like positioned to be, basically, the Beastie Girls. But they were always a little too smoove-sounding to assume that mantle, and anyway their crossover potential was always limited by the fact that in general Beastie Boys fans probably weren't inclined to taking a ladyband seriously, even if the ladyband was ... Read Full Story

See how rusty I am? That headline doesn't even make sense. Feyfriends' grand return--which I suspect won't even really be so grand, though the work Bmad's done on the site thus far is pretty spiffy! Everybody clap!--is still a work-in-progress, but even without any compelling information or insights to share my desire for a daily audience has prematurely led me back here for the first time in months. But what to tell you? Should I talk about my personal life and everything that's happened... Read Full Story

Boo/Yay!  But mostly boo.  The bad news is that I was trying to tweak FeyFriends' design and I erased the entire stylesheet with no backup.  Which is why it looks totally fucked up like this.  I hate myself!  The good news is that FeyFriends is planning a triumphant return.  (When I rewrite the entire style sheet..) Read Full Story

What better way to end a nearly month-long Fey hiatus than by resurrecting one of our least popular features...Bobo's movie reviews! Even I don't read these things, and I'm the one who writes them! And seriously, Star Trek? Half the audience I saw it with at the Arclight was totes homo, but an LA movie theater makes for a misleading sample set, as LA is where all gay sci-fi/horror/fantasy nerds go to die (alone)...I'm still pretty sure I'm getting something wrong about our... Read Full Story

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Instead of posting this anti-gay ad already posted everywhere else online, I thought I'd take up Videogum's challenge: There's nothing funny about this new ad called "Gathering Storm," in which actors from all walks of life pretend to be people from all walks of life who claim their lives are affected by gay marriage and call for a "rainbow coalition" (oh no you DID NOT) against it. Oh, except that it's stupid, and the organization behind it is called &quo... Read Full Story

As part of a recent Fey Friends fact-finding mission to the United Kingdom, *we* discovered that, despite the nation's profound state of mourning over the tragic, untimely loss of its greatest treasure -- JADE GOODY -- many of the Queen's subjects took solace in this tune by the Teenagers. It may be a little old, but it's still totally OFFENSIVE. Read Full Story

I spent the better part of an hour trying to decide between calling the trampy, tattoo-loving tweens in this commercial "nymphets" or "whores." Thanks to Darcy for the tip! Read Full Story

This weekend, Aaron Hicklin, the editor of Out magazine, wrote about the release of its Power 50 list — also known as the outing issue — which will be published this week now online. While Hicklin attempts to feign self-awareness hand-wringing about "stoop[ing]" to outing because it "seemed so 1990s" the justifications he gives for "naming and shaming" are just as weak. One reason he gives for the magazine's policy is that the people on the list are "me... Read Full Story

AKA: STEREOLAB R.I.P.Stereolab--as I've already mentioned my favorite band of all time by like an embarrassingly wide margin--have finally called it quits, at least for the moment. To anyone who's followed their loooong career this is no surprise: their albums have been diminishing in urgency and innovation for years; the music press has gotten bored with and sometimes even overtly hostile about their longevity;* and the once-married songwriting team of Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane a... Read Full Story