Oh my god! Who would do that to Paula?!? What the fuck is wrong with people?! I mean, a ham to Perez Hilton's face is one thing (and has probably happened before), but Paula? She seems like such a great, jolly woman.
@Tchotchke: Actually, I saw it on the news, and it seemed like the event was throwing hams at people and she just got in the way. I don't know why they weren't giving away turkeys, but they're pretty hard to throw.
@itsonreserve: Oh, good, I'm glad that it wasn't intentional. Paula seems to cheery and fun, that the idea that someone would want to spoil that saddens me immensely.
Not sure if this comes out large enough to read, but when I saw this sign Saturday, I took as a sign of the apocalypse. A book is more than they deserve...please no babies.
@SheelaNaGig: At first I thought this was on a bus stop, and I thought that was most appropriate. But, alas, it's not. Also, they think there will be a line? How amusing.
@I, Zombie Normal: By way of explanation, this was taken at The Grove in LA, which has a 3 story B&N that has tons of book signings with major authors and celebrities (I think Kathy Griffin is there tonight).
Usually the line is set up in the store throughout the 3 stories. The sign was about 200 yards from B&N and around a corner, which makes me think they expected a line so long it wouldn't fit in the giant store. No one was there when I took this, although I'm not sure when the signing took place. I'm hoping no one showed, but I'm sure someone did.
Call me crazy, but I believe J-Lo when she said her "trip" was intentional - it totally looked like part of the choreography. When she walked off the stage she was pissed about something, I just don't know what...maybe she was pissed about how stupid the song was...
Anyone else not sure what to feel about Adam Lambert's performance? I liked it, I'm not going to lie, but is equal-opportunity exploitation any better? Especially the kiss; apparently that was not choreographed. So he basically sexually assaulted that guitarist on stage?
I don't know, I'm just bugged by the whole thing. Am I alone?
@SWGM: I hated the part when he grabbed one of his female dancers by the leg and dragged her across the stage. And if the kiss was not planned, then that's not ok. However, I felt the same way about the rest of the performance as I feel about any other "sexy" performance: meh. To quote Mike Nelson, "now it's just vaguely sexual wallpaper."
@SWGM: A man portraying a sex object has a totally different history and will provoke a different reaction, so incorporating that actually did seem better to me than having just a naked woman writhing around. That way it's not anti-woman, it's just pro-horniness.
As for the kiss, that seems pretty common now: I know Gerard Way and Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance would often kiss while performing. It's sort of an emo boy thing.
It's OK, Jennifer Lopez, I've used that excuse before: "what? nooooo. What accident? It was totally planned! I wanted to draw that dude's attention and I decided that flying across the room after purportedly slipping with that lemon peel was a good way for him to show his chivalrous side. Now I know his name! See? It was all planned in advance. The bruise? It's noooothing, I had it already."
I am really irritated by some of the things I've heard about Adam Lambert's performance-- a lot of "I really liked him on American Idol, but this was.... so over the top." I kinda wish they would just come out and say, "Gay men kiss other men? I just thought they just sang show tunes and gave fashion tips."
@Sputnik_Sweetheart: I didn't even think it was that bad. It was less sexual than Britney's in her heydey. Yeah he was sorta off key, but he ran around and humped heads, and made out with people. I liked it. How many cringe-worthy musical performances have we seen over the years? His hardly tops my list.
@Sputnik_Sweetheart: It seemed like maybe he was trying a little hard to be controversial, but I'm not mad at him. If attention/publicity was his goal, mission accomplished.
@GirlFailer: Exactly. People are only up in arms because he's a dude; if any female performer had leash-slapped dudes and simulated sex on another woman, people would be anywhere between bored and horny. Oh wait, that's happened like 8 TRILLION TIMES.
@Sputnik_Sweetheart: I don't think it was that men kiss other men (admittedly, in some people's minds, it might be). Madonna kissed Britney, she did not shove her face in her crotch. She did not simulate fingering her back up dancer on a network. He went too far to be on ABC.
@DarcyMcCarbomb: It's because he's gay. Plain and simple. Britney pretended to be bent over by a dude on national telelvision... How many times now? So, a gay guy pretends to receive oral sex, and make out with another guy on national TV... OUTRAGE!!
@DarcyMcCarbomb: Outside of media that is specifically targeted towards the gay community, gay men are often portrayed as asexual sidekicks. It was really refreshing to see a gay man so openly embrace his sexuality (even if I found the performance itself to be meh, as I stated above).
Was I the only person who read Paula Deen "icing her face" as her actually ICING her face like frosting a cake??? I didn't even bat an eye, I just thought "Oh, typical Paula."
Okay, whew, so, Paula Deen was not purposely hit in the face with a ham. She just didn't know the ham was coming and accidentally got in hit in the face with a ham, which in her line of work, honestly, I'm surprised hasn't happened before. I thought that someone actually threw a ham at her as a form of protest which would have made me really, really mad. You see, Paula Deen is exactly like my mother, southern accent, big personality, big jewels, big hair, always made up, a love of cooking with butter/pork, loads of open displays of affection for her children/everyone she is around, flirtatious and a big drinker. If someone hit my momma in the face with a ham, I would be pissed. Real pissed.
@Jenloveshercurves: Oh, is that what it says in the article? I guess I should click the link before getting all pissed at an anonymous ham tosser. I have such fondness for Paula - I just want to go work with her. I'll scrub pots and pans, I don't care, as long as I'm there.
@missing_piece: Yeah, she was giving away Smithfield hams for a charity event and they were throwing the hams to be given to families and she was caught in the middle of a big ham toss.
@Jenloveshercurves: I love her, too. I'm actually working on a novel right now and I realized half-way through the planning stage that the mental picture I had for one of the characters was Paula Deen, so now my affection is even stronger.
@Jenloveshercurves: I'm glad to hear it was accidental too, because when I thought someone had deliberately winged a ham at her, I suspected my health-freak flax-cooking mother.
@AgainWithFeeling: I feel for you. I'm very happy that my mother is the stick of butter cook as opposed to the health freak and my heart is happy that see her only a few times a year.
@Jenloveshercurves: Yeah, and she's all okay and jokey about it anyway. I...I follow her on Twitter and she posted a link to it yesterday. She kind of reminds me of my grandma.
@curiousgeorgiana: We should all have our own money types, like Europe before the stupid Euros. My mother wants me to get in on some of that doctor money, but I'm personally more interested in guitar-playing dirty hippie money. I guess beggars can't be choosers though, since I'm struggling on my student money.
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Not sure if this comes out large enough to read, but when I saw this sign Saturday, I took as a sign of the apocalypse. A book is more than they deserve...please no babies.
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Usually the line is set up in the store throughout the 3 stories. The sign was about 200 yards from B&N and around a corner, which makes me think they expected a line so long it wouldn't fit in the giant store. No one was there when I took this, although I'm not sure when the signing took place. I'm hoping no one showed, but I'm sure someone did.
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I don't know, I'm just bugged by the whole thing. Am I alone?
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As for the kiss, that seems pretty common now: I know Gerard Way and Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance would often kiss while performing. It's sort of an emo boy thing.
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And hasn't that happened to everyone at least once?
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I know, I love throwing pork products as much as anyone else.
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