You may recall that singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was not, shall we say, demonstrably excited over winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. To be more specific, Dylan neglected to respond to both calls and emails from the Nobel Academy alerting him to this prestigious honor and skipped President Obama’s reception for the…
Bob Dylan has once again reenacted that scene in The Sound of Music when the announcer is like, “The Von Trapp Family Singers!” and everyone applauds but the Von Trapps don’t show up, and then he’s like, “The Family Von Trapp!” and everyone applauds but the Von Trapps don’t show up, and then the guy is like, “THEY’RE…
After waiting nearly a week to acknowledge that he had won the Nobel prize in literature, the words “winner of the Nobel prize in literature” were added to Bob Dylan’s website. Those words, the Guardian notes, have now been removed.
Last week, 75-year-old harmonica master Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” His fans rejoiced upon hearing the news. Many others protested. But Dylan himself kept rolling downhill and gathered no award at all, as The Guardian …
Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, rounding out a list of ten other men announced in preceding weeks. That’s great, Bob Dylan is great. How come no women, though?
The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in Seattle, 16 years old and riding in the passenger seat as my dad drove down Roosevelt on the way home from Scarecrow Video. We were listening to an oldies station, which had recently shifted from the ‘50s and ‘60s to the ‘60s and ‘70s. At the time, my taste in music was…
After a seemingly contentious back-and-forth as to whether Kesha would be allowed by Dr. Luke and Kemosabe Records to perform at the Billboard Awards, she got there after all—doing the song she said she’d perform all along, a cover of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me, Babe,” with Ben Folds. And she got a standing ovation for…
Jada Pinkett Smith used Facebook to perform an awesome smackdown on people who have been trolling the parental implications of the ever-changing short hairstyle of 12-year-old Willow Smith:
Journalists are conflicted about Jonah Lehrer, judging by the number of frantic Gchats and emails I received from my peers yesterday after Michael C. Moynihan broke the news in Tablet that the 31-year-old wunderkind science writer, already under fire for extensive "self-plagiarizing," attributed numerous fake quotes…
In her continued (and, if you ask me, unnecessary) bid for relevancy, Madonna most recently pissed off Mothers Against Guns during her MDNA tour. They objected when Madge waved around some (fake) firearms onstage during a concert in Murrayfield, Scotland not 48 hours after the Colorado Dark Knight Rises shooting, also…
We've lost count of how many "threats" Glee star Chris Colfer is at this point: dancing, singing, acting, onscreen ascot-wearing, a 2011 Time Magazine Influential Person, and now novel-writing. Sextuple threat? The Golden Globe winner and two-time Emmy nominee's debut novel, a fantasy called The Land of Stories: The…
World's Yuckiest Blowhard Bobby Brown responded to rumors that daughter Bobbi Kristina plans to change her last name to distance herself from him: "She can't change her last name, her name is her name. She'll forever be known as Bobbi Kristina Brown. There's no changing that, there's no taking that back." Bobby Brown…
No, no — not butthole blood. Regular blood. Back blood, actually. Because this woman named Nikki loved her first hiney pump so much, she tore her boyfriend's back off.
"Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I." -Joni Mitchell, on Bob Dylan. [LATimes]
Says today's Times, "interruption has clearly gained a foothold in American discourse these days, and is proving a powerful weapon for influencing the national conversation." Indeed! Just look at some of recent history's most infamous incidents.
