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John MayerDated Taylor in 2010 and is widely regarded as the inspiration for the song “Dear John.” (Sample lyrics: “Don’t you think I was too young to be messed with / The girl in the dress cried the whole way home.”) Mayer later called the song “humiliating,” which prompted Taylor to say it was “so presumptuous” for him to assume she was talking about him in the first place. It’s our personal opinion that she set him up. … [Read more...] about From Becky to Maple Lattes: Presenting Vulture’s Taylor Swift Glossary

In a hearing on Nov. 25, 2013, Smith argued that the probable cause against his client was thin. He noted that the BPD had not found any drugs on Gray, but saw him on a surveillance camera standing at a corner close to where another man was allegedly dealing. The only drugs the officers could produce were found in "a weedy area" nearby. And the only evidence that linked them to Gray's co-defendant, the alleged dealer, was the officer's testimony. … [Read more...] about The Short, Hard Life Of Freddie Gray

I admired him because he refused to let gay men off the hook. He didn’t pander. He made no excuses. He didn’t preach to the choir, as so many victimologists do; he screamed at it, partly because he knew how to do that and partly out of frustrated love. So many he came of age with were still riven with self-hatred; they were, in Larry’s view, having too much meaningless sex, because they had internalized a lack of self-worth; they were too quick to please those in power; they were “faggots” as his first novel brazenly declared — lacking the nerve or integrity to become fully realized human beings. “I hope I want for them what they want for themselves, which is to be equal,” Larry told me simply all those years ago. “We don’t have the rights we deserve and we have to look first to ourselves to see why, rather than blame an obviously culpable system.” Yes, he believed the system was rigged against us, but he also saw the … [Read more...] about Larry Kramer’s Secret

Alongside images of herself at the taping, she shared: 'About 12 years ago, when I’d write a new song, I would go to @thehotelcafe in Hollywood to work it out in front of an audience that wasn’t Kitty Purry. … [Read more...] about Pregnant Katy Perry drapes baby bump in shimmery silver dress for Space Launch Live event