Thank God he didn’t forget Randy Savage.

I’m not the type of person to bemoan things like this on my blog but…

“There have also been efforts among conservatives on the board to tweak the history of the civil rights movement. One amendment states that the movement created ‘unrealistic expectations of equal outcomes’ among minorities. Another proposed change removes any reference to race, sex or religion in talking about how different groups have contributed to the national identity.

References to Ralph Nader and Ross Perot are proposed to be removed, while Stonewall Jackson, the Confederate general, is to be listed as a role model for effective leadership, and the ideas in Jefferson Davis’s inaugural address are to be laid side by side with Abraham Lincoln’s speeches.”

Bemoan. Is it really time to change my voter registration?

Lately he’s been dropping knowledge on his tumblr a grammar, but today Abebe started a column on Pitchfork. The first entry is on how surprisingly similar (and different) the reception of Joanna Newsom and Lady Gaga have been and what that means for indie culture. Right in my wheelhouse.

This dude doesn’t post often and doesn’t proofread much, but he usually has some funny and interesting things to say. He takes movies—completely forgettable, average ones—that are celebrating their tenth anniversaries and looks back on them in context. What site like that would be complete without an analysis of The Skulls?

A nice companion piece to the hundreds of articles written about the John Mayer Playboy interview.

Why is no one else talking about this? This none-too-veiled sexual harassment should be the Hollywood story of the year. And I say that as a fake breast apologist.

I don’t agree with this guy’s taste (if we’re including Madonnas, that one he has isn’t in my top ten), but this is an amazing idea.

Ballet has always been a medium that makes its participants into art objects, but through twitter they’ve found a way to humanize themselves like never before.

While we’re on the subject of ballet, this entire month PBS is running “NY Export: Jazz Opus” as part of their Great Performances series. It’s a contemporary adaptation of the Prince/Robbins ballet from 1953, and it’s breathtakingly vibrant, recontextualizing the work in a way that would make its creators proud. I would recommend it to anyone.