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Lady Gaga's meat dress and other VMA thoughts

I’ll take three yards and use the leftover to make a scrunchie!

I have a lot of thoughts about Lady Gaga’s meat dress, thoughts which I’m going to share with you because you’re sitting over there looking lonely and like you might need a friend, preferably one who has thoughts about dresses made of meat. Actually, I have questions and thoughts. The questions?

Was it really raw meat?

Does it have to be refrigerated?

Does it smell? (What happens around dogs?)

What happens if you get the dress too close to a heat lamp?

Can you wear pork after labor day?

I mean, I should say that I find the dress brilliant. Not “Brillz” and not “brilliant” in the British slang way meaning “cool” but brilliant as in ingenious and clever because it’s the most talked about thing to come out of any otherwise pretty boring VMA show.

Also I find PETA and animal rights activists’ outrage over the dress perplexing because it’s not as if Lady Gaga is suggesting this is a hot look for fall and people all over are going to slaughter animals to wear their muscles. If anything the dress makes you think about the other parts of animals we use (leather, fur, etc.) and suggests those aren’t that different than bloody cuts of meat. Were the dress fashioned out of seitan or tofu or rice pilaf, the onlooker wouldn’t be forced to consider the brutality of fashion. Not that Gaga was intentionally making this particular point. She claimed today she was saying she felt like a piece of meat.

Also?  I’m pretty sick of this Taylor Swift/Kanye West stuff and I was already sick of it after about a week of hearing about it when it happened. They’re like a couple that is really annoying when it fights and then even more annoying when it makes up.

Also? I think that might be all.

Oh! Yes! If you have questions for Angelina from Jersey Shore tweet them to @bcthomas, my radio pal, because he’s interviewing her this weekend and he wants to collect questions from my viewers or, in the case of this here blog, my readers. So get on that.

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7 Responses to Lady Gaga's meat dress and other VMA thoughts

  1. pauldpearl September 13, 2010 at 9:29 pm #

    I have the same question as your first.. was it really meat? I guess “they” say it is.. but “they” also say a lot of things that I find questionable.

    If it was meat, I bet it was more like beef jerky than freshly sliced tri-tip and serloin.

    Follow-up question: If it was like jerky, was she eating it while watching the show? I would have.

    Also, I don’t even understand the Kanye/Taylor Swift stuff. I was hoping someone would grab HIS mic and say something snide as at least that COULD have been funny.

    Lastly, the “Cheese Cake Factory” joke was indeed funny. And a note: The only parts of the VMA I watched were on Joy Behar’s show featuring Alison Rosen and two other folks who weren’t nearly as well dressed.

  2. pauldpearl September 13, 2010 at 9:29 pm #

    I have the same question as your first.. was it really meat? I guess “they” say it is.. but “they” also say a lot of things that I find questionable.

    If it was meat, I bet it was more like beef jerky than freshly sliced tri-tip and serloin.

    Follow-up question: If it was like jerky, was she eating it while watching the show? I would have.

    Also, I don’t even understand the Kanye/Taylor Swift stuff. I was hoping someone would grab HIS mic and say something snide as at least that COULD have been funny.

    Lastly, the “Cheese Cake Factory” joke was indeed funny. And a note: The only parts of the VMA I watched were on Joy Behar’s show featuring Alison Rosen and two other folks who weren’t nearly as well dressed.

  3. Applenwo September 13, 2010 at 11:30 pm #

    wait…meat isnt the new look for fall? but i just bought a bunch of ribeye steaks i was planning on wearing as a dickie. crapity crap. and i guess ill forget about the pastrami blazer. if the clothes were made out of rice pilaf i would be affraid that id start picking at people who were wearing it. i mean when i see a loose string or wallpaper peeling i just have to pick or pull at it till it comes free. and i can see myself picking off pieces of rice on some poor ladys rice pilaf sun dress.
    and the taylor swift/kanye west stuff is highly annoiying. dontcare at all.
    also i have to say that music today is really really just awefull. and for lady gaga’s sweeping of the awards just goes to back up my opinion.

    and thank you for loving us.

  4. pauldpearl September 14, 2010 at 5:29 am #

    I have the same question as your first.. was it really meat? I guess “they” say it is.. but “they” also say a lot of things that I find questionable.

    If it was meat, I bet it was more like beef jerky than freshly sliced tri-tip and serloin.

    Follow-up question: If it was like jerky, was she eating it while watching the show? I would have.

    Also, I don't even understand the Kanye/Taylor Swift stuff. I was hoping someone would grab HIS mic and say something snide as at least that COULD have been funny.

    Lastly, the “Cheese Cake Factory” joke was indeed funny. And a note: The only parts of the VMA I watched were on Joy Behar's show featuring Alison Rosen and two other folks who weren't nearly as well dressed.

  5. Applenwo September 14, 2010 at 7:30 am #

    wait…meat isnt the new look for fall? but i just bought a bunch of ribeye steaks i was planning on wearing as a dickie. crapity crap. and i guess ill forget about the pastrami blazer. if the clothes were made out of rice pilaf i would be affraid that id start picking at people who were wearing it. i mean when i see a loose string or wallpaper peeling i just have to pick or pull at it till it comes free. and i can see myself picking off pieces of rice on some poor ladys rice pilaf sun dress.

    and the taylor swift/kanye west stuff is highly annoiying. dontcare at all.

    also i have to say that music today is really really just awefull. and for lady gaga's sweeping of the awards just goes to back up my opinion.

    and thank you for loving us.

  6. Tony Muckleroy September 15, 2010 at 12:23 pm #

    If an alien landed here and saw people wearing leather jackets, pants, hats, they would problem see the same thing we saw (and were disgusted by) when Lady GaGa wore her meat outfit. I doubt she was making any kind of statement other than “look at me!” though. Still it was fun to see and did create a lot of discussion. My wife says, “oh that’s not real meat!” I said “Really?” I was pretty sure it was because of who it was wearing it. Actually this discussion happened while we were watching you on Joy Behar.

  7. Tony Muckleroy September 15, 2010 at 8:23 pm #

    If an alien landed here and saw people wearing leather jackets, pants, hats, they would problem see the same thing we saw (and were disgusted by) when Lady GaGa wore her meat outfit. I doubt she was making any kind of statement other than “look at me!” though. Still it was fun to see and did create a lot of discussion. My wife says, “oh that's not real meat!” I said “Really?” I was pretty sure it was because of who it was wearing it. Actually this discussion happened while we were watching you on Joy Behar.

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