Just to put the lame and ridiculous gay outrage over the forthcoming Bruno movie into perspective? A fundraiser from the Human Rights Campaign called me yesterday. She encouraged me to give money now, so that "we" could take advantage of the current "wonderful" Congress. I hung up either right as or just after I responded "Are you fucking kidding me?" You mean the moron Congress who can't do anything at all? The ones who formed a splinter group of DEMOCRATS solely to prevent any of Obama's initiatives from passing? So let's not have too much earnest hand-wringing over the 80s-damaged identity politics of these silly lobbyist groups.

Some lady in Chicago was not amused by the Enimem/Bruno stunt at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards: "Quite frankly, why would anyone want someone else's coconuts in their face . .. especially in public? The crowd was laughing ... I wasn't!"

The verdict on last night's "excitement" at the MTV Movie awards: Eh. "Was it staged? Most likely. Eminem is a master pitchmen, and he's used his homophobic tag to move records before (see the Grammys' 2001 performance with Elton John). But if it was planned, Emimen should have stuck around and had more fun with the moment. After all, storming out was the obvious move, and what we'd expect from Em (as is much of 'Relapse')."