Whew, just wanted to drop in here for a moment

[Blue_In_AK]

for a respite from the Kanye wars. Jesus...

No need to respond - I'm just taking a breather.

[elleng]

1. Dear Blue,

I'm paying NO attention, not reading, not nuttin. With Andrew Zimmern in Florence and Boston.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Sounds nice.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Kanye, Kardashian, any of them just make me want to go for a walk, elleng!

It's so odd that they get the attention they get, while other very good and talented people are ignored by the media.

[elleng]

4. I've never watched any of those, SKP.

Can't say I have more important things to do 'cause I have little to do, actually, but have never been able to spend time on mindless stuff.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. To hear some in GD tell it,

Kanye is some kind of martyr.

I'm a musician, so I do follow this stuff, but it seems if one has issues with Kanye, one is automatically a racist. Whatever.....

[NYC_SKP]

9. I saw that.

I didn't want to touch it but I did begin to wonder-- WTH good has he done with his $130 Million, and where did that come from?

My guess: it came kids stuck in a culture that values celebrity over integrity, it all goes into his pockets and does he give any of it back?

Hell no. He just leverages it to grow his celebrity to take more money from lost souls-- it's a depressing cycle.

Add to that the very shitty example he sets for admirers: that if you don't get your way then just make a scene about it, be an asshole.

Gotta love, though, that Obama called him a jackass.

[Downwinder]

5. There is some advantage to deafness.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I "hear" ya.

[Mira]

8. How funny!

I'm glad we can help
Now I have to go see what that's all about