She’s been #1 on the charts for eight gazillion weeks, but that’s not enough for Taylor Swift — she wants to get into fashion, just like everyone else. She’s teamed up with teen favorite L.E.I. to “design” a line of uber-affordable dresses — retailing for $14.

“I love dresses,” Taylor said in a statement. “And I have always had this dream to make an affordable sundress line.”

Of course you did, Taylor. What little girl doesn’t dream of creating a line of affordable sundresses? We want to be doctors, lawyers, fairy princesses, models, actresses and $14 dress designers.

“I was totally adamant that I wanted [the dresses] to be affordable. With my headlining tour, we are offering $20 tickets everywhere we go and I wanted to approach the sundress line in the same way,” says Taylor. “To have cute dresses under $20 is something I am really proud of.”

I guess if there’s anything you can make successfully that cheap, it’s sundresses. I mean, they’re supposed to be flowing and flimsy, so there’s a lot of leeway for crappiness in the design and fabric. Maybe this was a smart move for Taylor after all.

Thanks Christina!

Check out the ad for PETA that NBC wouldn’t allow to air during the Super Bowl.

Here is — no joke — NBC’s verbatim complaints about the video:

* licking pumpkin

* touching her breast with her hand while eating broccoli

* pumpkin from behind between legs

* rubbing pelvic region with pumpkin

* screwing herself with broccoli (fuzzy)

* asparagus on her lap appearing as if it is ready to be inserted into vagina

* licking eggplant

* rubbing asparagus on breast

I agree that it’s really sad that we brutally slaughter animals for food, but the greater tragedy in this world is that we don’t have footage of the NBC boardroom meeting in which this list was created. I just keep playing through mental images of guys in Armani suits and Rolex watches being all like, “Okay, so ’sucking on eggplant’ goes on the list? Oh, no? No, you want to say ‘licking eggplant’? Oh, okay, hang on, let me change it. Bob, do you think we ought to mention that the broccoli was fuzzy?”

Sheesh.

This is the first I’m hearing of this, but, apparently, after Diddy fired Aubrey O’Day and D. Woods, apparently Shannon Bex just decided to quit without telling anyone, and now the group is over.

[Dawn] Richard told MTV News that despite the fact that Diddy kicked Aubrey O’Day and D.Woods out of the group last season, leaving only Shannon Bex, Richard and Aundrea Fimbres in the group, he was willing to have all the girls come back for the new season of “Making the Band” (premiering on February 12). But when Richard showed up to tape the show she was surprised to learn that Bex decided not to return either. Fimbres and Richard were left to fend for themselves.

Woah, I can’t wait to hear the rest of the fall-out from this. I mean, I don’t follow Danity Kane that closely (and I certainly am not upset to hear of their demise), but that’s kind of dick for them to just not show up. Is their contract over or is this a violation?

Look, I’m not usually one of those “fur is murder BLAAAAARGH” people, but you have to admit that there’s something upsetting about Ivana Trump wearing what essentially amounts to an entire ecosystem. Especially when you consider that she probably spent upwards of $20K to cover herself in all that carcass, and she still couldn’t shell out for a fucking pantsuit that fits. Unless having your jacket buttons stretch and rip against your midsection is what we’re considering fashion-forward these days.

This whole outfit is in such horrid taste. BLARGH.

At Paris Fashion Week.

I thought not.

Funny story: a long time ago, when this blog was in its first months of existence and didn’t have the swarms of frothing fans it has today (heh heh), I used to get a comparatively large amount of traffic from Asian countries from people searching for the phrase “brad beet.” I couldn’t for the life of me figure out who this Brad Beet person was until I realized that, in Asia, the way they pronounce Brad Pitt’s name sounds a lot like “Brad Beet,” and this video is a good example of that.

After his last bout with pneumonia, Patrick Swayze has decided to stop all chemotherapy.  According to his doctors, he made the decision after being told that he is out of options.  The goal now will be to keep him comfortable through palliative care.  A friend of Swayze’s said, “Patrick regards himself as a cowboy, and is determined to die with his boots on and no regrets.”

The average person diagnosed with his type of pancreatic cancer dies within six months of diagnosis; Swayze has made it a year.  Lots of prayers and positive thoughts to Patrick and his family.

I’ve had it.  I know we’re supposed to conserve and reuse but I still get aggravated that I now have to ask for the little cardboard collar on my Starbucks cup so that I don’t burn off my fingerprints while drinking my Tall.  Though I understand the merits of recycling, I don’t want it to apply to my morning beverage and I don’t want it to apply to my entertainment.  Selfish, I know.

It’s bad enough that I’ve had to suffer through the movie remakes of bad seventies shows such as Charlie’s Angels and Starsky and Hutch.  And I am trying, unsuccessfully, to work towards acceptance of eighties videos being transformed into Broadway shows.

Now, NBC is doing a television series called Parenthood.  Does this sound at all familiar?  It should.  Parenthood was a 1989 movie starring Steve Martin.  That movie resulted in a short-lived 1990 television series spin-off with Ed Begley, Jr.  You may not remember the show because it was on for, like, twelve minutes.  And now that’s being remade.  Again.  A remake remake.

I have a message for all these nostalgic, retro-happy, fresh out of ideas Hollywood execs: Einstein’s definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Just think about it.