Dave Grohl Is at War With Taylor Swift (Am I Doing This Right?)

Per ushe, I like to put all my cards on the table before diving into a hot topic that threatens to consume us all. In this case, Dave Grohl firing off an odd barb at Taylor Swift as the two of them performed separately in London over the weekend. I made my bones calling out celebrities, and more importantly, the dangerous practice of celebrity worship because I firmly believe there’s a straight line from the Kardashians to Trump’s White House. That said, there’s been too far of a pendulum swing into frothing irrational obsessions with tearing down certain stars for committing the cardinal sin of making normies happy. It’s exhausting, and everyone could stand to dial down things a bit. Taylor Swift isn’t Girl Jesus, nor is she Hillary Clinton incarnate or whatever weirdos on social media are really mad about. Anyway, that was a long meandering journey to the Grohl issue. On the one hand, the barb was some playful stage banter that was definitely sh*tty but not the war crime it will be treated as. On the other hand, here’s some important context that made me die laughing when it popped up in the final graf: “Earlier this year, Grohl’s daughter Violet came under fire by Swift fans when she criticized Swift in a since-deleted post for flying by private jet. Swifties then noted Violet had also flown by private jet in the past.” That’s my drug of choice right there, folks: Pure, uncut schadenfreude. Can’t beat it. (THR)

Of course, Prince William attending Taylor Swift’s concert in London really chops me in half over here. Wile Coyote’d myself right into a brick wall. Sonofa… (Celebitchy)

Jennifer Lopez’s Italian vacation doesn’t necessarily make divorce from Ben Affleck more of a certainty. (Lainey Gossip)

A Michigan legislator has been charged with assaulting a stripper, so right of the bat, there’s no way this degenerate could possibly be from the God-fearing party of family valu— bwhaaaaaa?! (Wonkette)

Petr shared this viral video of Justin Timberlake taken just a few weeks before his arrest, and uh, Holy Coke Eyes, Batman. (Reddit)

From Jen: There’s a joke in here somewhere about bitcoin being like fairy gold. (Threads)

I used to joke that humanity will one day perish in the brewing battle between the Duggars and the Baldwins as they breed their way to world dominance, but clearly, I left out the rapidly growing Clan Musk whose rhombus-shaped bodies and box-like heads will make them a formidable foe. (Page Six)

From Seth: Mmmmmmmmm… Matrix code. (HuffPost UK)

Warhammer trolls are projecting their bigotry onto Henry Cavill. (Mary Sue)

From Kayleigh: I think this might be the best video on YouTube. (YouTube)

From Petr: Microplastics have been discovered in a human penis, so I guess that’s two Justin Timberlakes from our resident Brit. (CNN)

Malin has several of Cathy Yardley’s books on her ereader, and finally cracked open Role Playing, a queer romance between a bi man and a straight woman. “This book came highly recommended by two people whose opinions about books I always trust, narfna and Emmalita, because they rarely, if ever, steer me wrong.” Whose book opinions do you trust? (Cannonball Read 16)

It’s that kind of P-Love tonight. What’re ya gonna do?

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