Like every girl in history who has ever been through a break up, you know that every where you go you are reminded of that person. You hear something funny on TV that you both would have laughed at, “your song” comes on the radio, you run in to a mutual acquaintance. Just because someone is out of your life doesn’t mean you’re going to forget them any time soon, and that’s what Rihanna says she’s dealing with right now.

Even though she and Chris Brown have been done for awhile, the singer says there are constant reminders in their relationship. “There are a lot of … places that we’ve been to together, music, different things that come up that are reminders of your ex. When [his music] comes on the radio, I don’t … turn it off. I like his music. I’ve gotten over it, but there are definitely constant reminders … songs that were our favorite songs, or hit songs.”

Sounds familiar, right? Also, let us not forget that Rihanna and Chris remixed her biggest hit to date “Umbrella” together, so every time she performs that song, the memory must come creeping back to her as well.

Ahhh, break ups are sad, especially under these circumstances. I have no snark for you on this one today.

Chris Brown has a new single and video out and oddly enough, it’s about him wanting to make up with a girlfriend. I’m assuming that this is just a poorly selected theme and in no way a reference to Rihanna because well, he’d have to be fucking crazy to think that he could get away with that. The video itself is quite pretty. Los Angeles in the kind of winter that we never actually experience, but even the emo glasses can’t hide the fact that this is Chris Brown and we’re like… so over him in a such a major way.

Chris Brown publicly stated that he wished Rihanna hadn’t spoken to 20/20 about the abuse between them earlier this week, which seemed selfish and careless, but his friends? Well, his friends are taking the name “douche nozzles” to a whole new level. Several of Brown’s friends have come to his defense on Twitter and Tash has them all organized right here.

@Only1Zstarr: YO THIS RIHANNA INTERVIEW HAVE PISSED ME OFF SHE IS REALLY TRYNA MAKE CHRIS BROWN OUT OF BEING A WOMEN BEATER…. WOW. IF YALL ONLY KNEW!! WISH DANCER’S CAN SPEAK ABOUT THINGS THAT REALLY GO ON!!!! I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS.. LET ME JUST SAY CHRIS BROWN WAS PUSHED TO THE EXTREME!HER PEOPLE MADE HER DO THIS INTERVIEW FOR 2 REASON’S….. ALBUM SALES…. AND TO TRY AN KILL CHRIS CAREER!! (WHICH WILL NOT HAPPEN)WOW I CANT BELIEVE THIS SHIT!!IN CHRIS INTERVIEW THEY ASK HIM WHAT HAPPEN, HE SAID HE WANT TO KEEP THERE PRIVACY PRIVATE OUT OF RESPECT FOR HER!! (PAUSE)BECAUSE IF HE REALLY SPOKE ON THE REAL OF THE TRUTH!!! I CANT SAY THE REST!GOD IS OF ALLLLLLLLLL POWER AND CHRIS BROWN FOLLOWS JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!! NOT THE OTHER. MEN BE CAREFUL OF VINDICTIVE WOMEN!!! RIHANNA IS THE SECOND ONE I KNO…

@DJBabeyDrew: MAD!!!! I need the real story to come out now!!! This is sum bullcrap!!!! Uncut Bullcrap!Awwww man I am Mad!!!! Truth will come to Light !!! It always does!!!!

@monhomo: he’s career ain’t ova. He made her 2 Wat she is day. Riri just needs away 2. Get her career back upSorry if I Mis-lead some of u earlier. I luv Robyn. We hangout 2 this day. That’s my bitch. Chris is my bestfriend, like a bro but…….I dnt promote violence nor do I promote lying I just got a lil upset after hearin da interview & I think if ur gonna go public tell da truth Its not she’s wrong. I feel 4 her but she’s playing a roll 4 the media & that sucks. Cuz she saying bullshit n front the cameras.

Yeah, not so nice, right? If anything these “friends” are digging Chris Brown deeper in to his hole of irrelevance by coming out and speaking like this about an incident that their friend stated he wished to keep private and dissing the woman who their boy abused. If they think she should have kept her mouth shut, they really should take their own advice.

Chris Brown isn’t too happy that Rihanna went on 20/20 to talk to Diane Sawyer about the abuse between the former couple, but why would he be? Sadly, it seems that Chris thinks that not talking about what happened the night that he beat her face in in Hancock Park will make the incident eventually disappear from the public’s mind, but we all know that as long as anyone’s talking about Christ Brown, “abuser” is going to be the first word that comes to mind.

Chris went to MTV News to talk about his ex’s interview and expressed that even though he understood her reasons for going, he wishes she had just kept quiet. “While I respect Rihanna’s right to discuss the specific events of February 8, I maintain my position that all of the details should remain a private matter between us,” Brown told the network. Of course you would, sweetie, but unfortunately, your lackluster interview with Larry King and the months of silence that Rihanna graciously gave you still left us with questions.

And while we may always think of Chris Brown as a woman-beater, Rihanna wants to make sure that she can move on from this as well. What Chris has to realize when saying that he’d like for this incident to remain private is that he, by nature of his career, cannot be a private person. Once news hits that you’ve beaten your girlfriend, everyone wants to know why. In fact, Rihanna’s reasons for doing the interview was to kind of clear both of their names, “I knew I had to do this in order to move on for me and in order for my fans to move on . . . I don’t want that five years from now every time they see Rihanna, they think of Chris Brown beating me. That’s not who I am.” Perhaps instead of coming across guilt-free in his actions, Chris should take Rihanna’s approach and address the issues head on so that we can all move along.

You know, I wasn’t sure how I felt about Rihanna after she went back to Chris Brown post-beating.  After watching the first clip of her Good Morning America interview as it aired this morning, I just have a lot of respect for her.  I found her to be absolutely riveting to watch and she’s so clear on what she needs to look at.  If you’re being abused, don’t use “love” as the guiding force for what needs to change.  Love is so absolutely blind and has led so many of us down the wrong path.  It’s not easy to turn your back on love, but when it comes to abuse, it’s absolutely necessary.

Anyway, I’m excited to see more on tomorrow’s GMA as well as 20/20.  Stay strong, Rihanna!

Hey, guys!  Here’s Chris Brown’s album cover for his comeback effort, “Graffiti.”  I must say, I’m not surprised to see the singer attempting to spray paint into the eyes of innocent animations.  Are we excited that Chris is back in business?  Do we care?

Two days ago Rihanna released “Russian Roulette” and the public speculated on its meaning.  Does Rihanna think that staying involved with Chris Brown is like a dangerous game of chance?  And does she feel that she has no choice but to stay in that game?  Or is she just really irresponsible with firearms?  Oh. The. Questions.

Chris Brown has thrown subtlety out the window by going all vomit-inducing Peabo Bryson on our asses.  Today he released “Crawl” which is clearly a song about his desire to rebuild his relationship with Rihanna.  I’ve listed the lyrics below, but in a nutshell it goes like this:  ”I know I beat the fuck out of you, but I was wondering if you’d be open to getting back together.  ’Cuz we can crawl back to love even though I’m the one who beat the fuck out of you.  So, what do you say?”

Now, I don’t know about you, but the line “Love, can you see my hand?” sends chills up my spine.  Yeah, Chris we all see your hand and exactly what damage it’s capable of inflicting.

Everybody see’s it’s you
I’m the one that lost the view
Everybody says we’re through
I hope you hadn’t said it too

So where
Do we go from here
With all this fear in our eyes
And where
Can love take us now
We’ve been so far down
We can still touch the sky

[Chorus]
If we crawl
Till we can walk again
Then we’ll run
Until we’re strong enough to jump
Then we’ll fly
Until there is no wind
So lets crawl, crawl, crawwl
Back to love, Yeah
Back to love, Yeah

[Verse 2]
Why did I change the pace
Hearts were never mean’t to race
I always felt the need for space
But now I can’t reach your face
So where
Are you standing now
Are you in the crowd of my vouch
Love, can you see my hand?
I need one more chance
We can still have it all

[Chorus]
If we crawl(if we crawl)
Till we can walk again
Then we’ll run (then we’ll run)
Until we’re strong enough to jump
Then we’ll fly
Until there is no wind
So lets crawl, crawl, crawwl
Back to love, Yeah
Back to love, yeaaah

[Bridge]
Everybody see’s it’s you
Well I never wanna lose that view

[Chorus]
So we’ll crawl (if we crawl)
Till we can walk again
Then we’ll run (we’ll run)
Until we’re strong enough to jump
Then we’ll fly
Until there is no wind
So lets crawl, crawl, crawwl

So we’ll crawl (ooh)
Till we can walk again (till we can walk again)
Then we’ll run (we’ll run)
Until we’re strong enough to jump (until we’re strong enough to jump)
Then we’ll fly (then we’ll fly)
Until there is no wind
So let’s crawl, let’s crawl, lets crawl
Back to love
Back to love yeah
Back to love

Well, my Internet has been out on and off all day.  Frustrating, aggravating, downright infuriating.  Normally, I’d be plucking the legs off of small children bugs by now, but not today folks, not today.  Let me tell you the good news:  Not only is today Chris Brown’s first day of community service, it’s also the premiere of The Beautiful Life.

On day one of his six-month assignment, Chris got to work in a police horse stable in Virginia today!  Will half a year of picking up shit make Chris Brown a better man?  Probably not.  Will half a year of picking up shit bring me pure and unadulterated joy?  Absolutely, yes.  Let’s pray for a freakish autumn heat wave, shall we?

Speaking of horseshit, tonight is the CW’s premiere of The Beautiful Life.  I will be watching intently and I know all seven of you will be, too.  I heard that Elle McPherson’s acting is shit — do you see a theme here? — but who really cares when Mischa is on the screen?  She makes everything better.  She’s the shit salve.  Sorry, folks.  I have to get it all out of my system now because how many episodes do you really think I’ll get to trash before this shit show goes the way of Secret Talents of the Stars?

It’s not coming out until February, but here’s the trailer for Takers.  On the surface it just seems like another testosterone-fueled blockbuster, but it’s really so much more:  one of the stars is Chris Brown.

America has a short memory and this flick isn’t releasing until next year.  I predict that, good plot or bad, this movie will make hundreds of millions of dollars and Chris Brown will be back on top.

“NOT TRYNA BE RUDE but i keep hearing tila bringing my name up. ur 15 seconds of fame has ended. dont try to gain fans by dissing me.godbless.”

-Chris Brown telling Tila Tequila to stop putting him on blast via Twitter.

The MySpace star tweaked out on Brown via Twitter as a result of her own personal domestic violence case not ending the way she wanted. Brown, who is no stranger to drama, couldn’t take her heat and decided to respond by putting her in her place.

It’s been awhile since I’ve been able to pull out the douche-ski photo, but today it just felt right.  As you’ll remember, I posted a brief preview clip of Chris Brown offering up a whole lot of “Wow” and a little bit of selective amnesia to Larry King.  That interview will air tomorrow.  Chris Brown has released a statement indicating that when he said he didn’t remember beating up Rihanna, what he meant was that he did remember beating up Rihanna.  Seems reasonable.

“There have been reports on the Internet that I didn’t remember what happened that night with Rihanna. I want to try and set things straight. 

“That 30 seconds of the interview they used of me was taken from a one hour interview during which that same question was asked something like four or five times – and when you look at the entire interview you will see it is not representative of what I said. 

“The first four times – or however many times it was – I gave the same answer – which was that I didn’t think it was appropriate for me to talk about what happened that night. I said it was not right for me and it really wasn’t fair to Rihanna. The fifth time – or whatever it was – I just misspoke. I was asked, ‘Do you remember doing it?’ and I said, ‘No.’ 

“Of course I remember what happened. Several times during the interview, my mother said that I came to her right afterwards and told her everything. But it was and still is a blur. And yes, I still can’t believe it happened because it is not me or who I am, nor is what happened like anything I have ever done before.”

Larry King is famous for asking the same question over and over and over again.  Unfortunately, Chris Brown can never have the luxury of vaguely answering any question, even one that’s been posed repeatedly.  The public is still out for blood.  

I’m a firm believer in redemption.  If Chris Brown was honest and forthright, of course he would be worthy of a second chance.  But he keeps sticking with the “nor is what happened like anything I have ever done before” line even though the police report clearly states that he had hit Rihanna on at least two previous occasions.  He’s still not taking responsibility, he’s still not owning up and that’s why I feel like he’s a totally sac-less, creepy little Easter Bunny.  (Thank you to our commenter who came up with that!)