“FLIP FLIP”

Ke$ha’s Backtracks On Claim She Was “Forced” To Sing “Die Young”

By Jacob Wittich

IN WHAT WE PRESUME IS AN ACT OF FREE WILL, Ke$ha now claims she wasn’t forced to sing Die Young after all.

A HOMERUN?

Jimmy Fallon, Billy Crystal & Jerry Seinfeld Re-Enact Abbot & Costello’s “Who’s On First?”

By Elizabeth C.

JERRY SEINFELD SCORES FIRST if you’re keeping track of audience reaction during Jimmy Fallon’s late-nite reenactment of Abbott & Costello’s classic copyrighted “Who’s On First” skit.

Seinfeld joined Fallon along with Billy Crystal, [Fallon writer] A.D. Miles and Steve Higgins Thursday night to pay homage to the screwball comedy routine. (Is it baseball season?)

The bit shows a verklempt baseball fan wrestling to come to terms with the knowledge that “Who,” “What,” and “I Don’t Know” are names of baseball players.

THE END OF AN ERA

Jersey Shore Finale: Overly-Attached Guidos

By Karen Malmquist

BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE BEFALLS US, BEFORE FIRE SPILLS FROM THE SKY and the Earth’s crust splits open, let’s take a moment to reflect on the final episode of Jersey Shore. Of course, it can’t be too sappy. There are unmentionables making their way into the roommates’ mouths, and we experience yet another horrific moment in Nicole’s life. But dammit if this isn’t one of the saddest finales in television history.

MATEYS

I’d Tat That! Taylor Swift Lends Support For Harry Styles’ Latest Ink

By Jacob Wittich

TAYLOR SWIFT SURE LIKES THE BAD BOYS, AND Harry Styles might fit that M.O.? The new young Hollywood couple paid a visit to the Shamrock Tattoo Parlor in L.A., where the One Direction bandmember got a pirate ship tattoo that’s eerily similar to the tattoo of Swift’s bad boy love interest in her recent, I Knew You Were Trouble video.

DUH

Well That Was Anticlimatic: Cassadee Pope Bags ‘The Voice’

By Elizabeth C.

EVEN HER GLISTENING WHITE TEETH SEEMED A SIGN: The talented and oh-so-marketable Cassadee Pope would win The Voice.

So there she was, on Tuesday night, looking spitshined and ready-packaged, when the inevitable was announced. Talk about anti-climatic.

WTF

Ke$ha ‘Forced’ To Sing Die Young‘s YOLO Lyrics?

By Jacob Wittich

POP STAR KE$HA IS USED TO PROVOKING CONTROVERSY BUT HER LATEST COMMENTS are even more befuddling than the bra she made from fans’ teeth.

The Tick Tock star says she’s sympathetic to radio stations yanking her controversially titled single, Die Young off the air in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

“I understand. I had my very own issue with ‘die young’ for this reason,” the wild child tweeted in a post later deleted. “I did NOT want to sing those lyrics and I was FORCED TO.”

WHY NOT?

O Rly? Bird Tries Stealing Baby For Prey

By Elizabeth C.

O RLY? A BIRD OF PREY GETS HUNGRY, sees chubby prey and swoops down for what looks like a tasty vittle. But the little chunk is too heavy so the predator loses its grip. Sounds plausible to me. Why not?

A video capturing this very hunt is making the rounds today courtesy of MrNuclearCat on YouTube, who describes the bird as a “golden Eagle.” But skeptics believe the video is a fake, and there seems to be a whole lot of skeptics.

GIDDY-UPPING OUR WAY TO THE END?

Come Dec. 21, Will We Be Going Out in ‘Gangnam Style’?

By Elizabeth C.

WHO KNEW THAT WHEN the world’s end arrived we’d all be Gangnam stylin’ it to our graves?

Forty-eight hours from now, Earth’s supposed to meet its demise when a planet crashes down and destroys life as we know it. So contended Jose Arguelles in the 1987 book, The Mayan Factor, which cited Dec. 21, 2012 as the end of “time as we know it.” That’s because the day is the “13th B’aktun” in the Mayan calendar, “the final morning in a precisely determined measure of 1.872 million days, written in stone 1,300 years ago near Tortuguero, Mexico,” according to the Denver Post. And sometime time between then and now prognosticators and con men have promoted a theory of the world’s demise on that day.

There’s a lot of jabber-jawing on the web as the date approaches, but none of it as amusing as the YouTube video embedded below that claims that the Korean pop star Psy’s horsey dance is actually a sign of the apocalypse allegedly predicted for that day by the Mayans — and the French seer Nostradamus:

SATISFACTION

Lady Gag Kicks Up Her Heels With The Rolling Stones

By Jacob Wittich

LADY GAGA’S GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER. The pop star took stage with the Rolling Stones on Saturday to close their “50 and Counting Tour,” celebrating the band’s five decades in music. Also joining the boys in the band were Bruce Springsteen, The Black Keys and John Mayer.

THE MAIN COURSE IS PETTY

Real Housewives Of New Jersey: Reproach Is Being Served

By Karen Malmquist

YOU KNOW YOU’RE IN TROUBLE WHEN THE MORALLY CORRUPT FAYE RESNICK arrives to lay down the law, and SHE isn’t the one being targeted. After getting into a verbal smack-down with Camille in season one, she’s back to lend her wisdom to Brandi on Monday’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.