a couple of tasty rants
on MTV's VMAs (of which i only caught the latter portion, but dire as this dude says indeed, what struck me was how they only played 4 seconds of each Video of the Year and even then drowned out the music almost totally with extraneous hype-hype type sound FX, showing how much the promo-as-artform/promo-as-Event has declined in recent years)
on manchester's lameness since virtually forever