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Priceless

What inspired me to post for the first time in almost two months?

Obama winning the Democratic presidential nomination. Nope.

Hillary conceding. Nope.

Ray and Alan stalking Madonna and family on the Upper West Side...and getting their photo in Page 6.

You betcha.

This is what 50 looks like

Another Madonna, another Patmix diatribe.

I'll leave this one to the New York Times which summed up Madges latest as follows:

The sound of “Hard Candy” is partly the sound of an era when New York dance clubs were an experiment in improbable social interactions — gays, socialites, breakdancers, artists — that became a pipeline to pop radio.

The dance floor — not the pulpit, not the art gallery — is Madonna’s truest home, and it’s a good place to shake off pretensions and excesses. Her grand statement on “Hard Candy” is nothing more than that she’s still around and can still deliver neat, calculated pop songs. Madonna has had more profound moments — ”Like a Prayer,” “Ray of Light” — but not every pop star is cut out for full-time profundity. This time around, concocting new ditties that will have her arena audiences singing along, she was smart to stay shallow.

What I Did Two Weekends Ago

More from Amsterdam here.

Tonight She Comes

As she arrives in New York tonight, WNYC asks the questions that's on all New Yorkers' minds: Is Madonna still relevant?

Review tomorrow

What Madonna's Been Up To

"A better title for Madonna's Confessions tour might be the Go to Confession Tour, as you feel like you need to by the time the show is over. " - MTV review (hat tip to Balletto).

Me? Busy?

Sorry for the delays in posting. I've been a bad blogger. Been crazy busy, but that doesn't mean I don't have time to get me some Madonna tickets....in Amsterdam (hat tip to Balletto). And New York City (hat tip to Ray). And maybe Atlantic City, too.

Meanwhile...

Kate, Frank and I got to hear booming Madonna beats last night, but the go-go boys were a bit too much and too early for an after-work fete.  And alls we got was a project of Queen Madge on the wall. Meanwhile, across the pond, Londoners last night got to see first hand how she got her groove back.

Only in New York...

(via Brooklyn Vegan)

  (via Towleroad)

First hand reports of Madonna hitting New York City's clubs here, here, and here.

Brings back memories of when Teddy Gray, John Cloud, and I braved the masses to see Madonna at her last appearance at the Roxy in 1998.  Those were pre-cameraphone days (note the last photo above, those ain't lighters that everyone is holding up in the air), so all I have is a ticket stub and the way earnest letter to the editor I wrote below. 

Dear Editor:

Practically every media outlet -- from The New York Times to Access Hollywood -- omitted a crucial detail in its coverage of Madonna’s surprise performance at The Roxy  this past weekend (Mom’s Night Out, February 17, 1998):  The Roxy is a gay-run dance club, and the crowd of over 2,000 on Saturday night was overwhelmingly and unmistakably gay.   

The fact that one of the world’s most famous women chose a gay dance club for her first live performance in four years was an important part of this story, especially since it was widely reported that Madonna chose the venue because she “wanted to go back to her roots.”

Unfortunately, the media too often mentions a gay or lesbian angle only when a story is negative.  (Witness Tom Brokaw labeling Andrew Cunanan the “homicidal homosexual” on the NBC Nightly News last year.) Had the topic been an arrest at The Roxy, you can bet the media would not have thought twice before identifying The Roxy as a “gay nightclub.”

Update: Note no mention of the gays in Liz Smith's column today on all of this....

This one is real

On sale November 15th...

Wishful Thinking

Wishful thinking, but it'll do in the meantime...(hat tip to Jeff).

On the upcoming CD, Liz Rosenberg tells MSNBC:

“It’s all Madonna, all the time — a total dance record called 'Confessions on a Dance Floor.' No ballads, no messages. Her fans will go insane when they hear it. It’s back to Madonna the queen of the dance floor.”