So. Some years ago, Welsh rock band Catatonia had a rad song called, "Stone By Stone," and the refrain went something like this: On common ground, we'll build our castle walls / We'll build them stone by stone and how / With more and more, you know it won't take long / Where it burned orange, let it burn gold. And today, we (I?) would do well to take a break from our (once again, my?) usual doomcasting to frame this past week's goings-on in a way that makes us think that this world of ours isn't going to cave in on itself!
• First things first, friends! Kylie Minogue demonstrated spirited heroics by giving American television something it hasn't had in a while: Pop music that makes you feel all ooey, gooey, and great inside. [YouTube]
• A social media website that predates F*Book finally got an overhaul and some people are buzzing like bees...while the rest of us would rather be catching some ZzzZZzs. [CNN]
• Someone has decided that other people are unwise to the idea of purchasing a tune off iTunes or procuring it via cleverly-created search strings on Google and has decided now's the best time for a George Michael re-release. [Popjustice]
• Very cute furniture upholstery ideas. No, seriously! [Design Sponge]
• What if condoms could talk!? [Cracked]
• Sensitive singer-songwriter-Tweeter John Mayer picks a fight with a publication widely-known for its inability to pay staff writers in any currency other than alphanumeric characters on its website re: his girlfriend whose last decent contribution to the world of arts and entertainment was seven or eight years ago in The Good Girl, co-starring Jake Gyllenhaal. [TheAwl]
• This intriguing read about Williamsburg's "burgeoning meat scene" neglects to mention such esteemed establishments as Sugarland and The Metropolitan. [Capital New York]
• What does it take for noted intellectual/Jenna Maroney look-a-like Elisabeth Hasselbeck to "come around" to gay marriage? Some sake bombs and sashimi with Melissa Etheridge. [ShowbizSpy]
• POP QUIZ! Queerty's angle of Margaret Cho as a gay icon who "enjoys drugs and alcohol too much to ever welcome an intervention" is:
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(a) Meh.
(b) Feh.
(c) Less useful than this gripping read about the Popeye's vs. KFC showdown.
(d) All of the above.
Answer: The answer is (d). [Queerty]
• Just how rad would it be if Sonic & Knuckles--that Sega Genesis game from when we were all tweens and teens and post-teens!--were reinvented as an almost-3D epic? One fan explored that possibility with dazzling results. [Kotaku]
• An eyesore. [GoFugYourself]
• A terror suspect sings Avril Lavigne's anthem "Complicated" on Canadian Idol. [BuzzFeed]
Mister Rohin Guha has written for scores of places. Once a week he'll be checking in on civilization and giving us a progress report.
