At the Keep A Child Alive fundraiser in NYC.

Also pictured: Alicia Keys and Padma Lakshmi.

My darling, precious Taylor Swift has been shooting her mouth off about what an asswipe Joe Jonas was in their relationship, ending it with a 27-second phone call before taking up with the chick from his music video.

Well, Joe is finally ready to talk back. In a not-at-all-veiled post on his MySpace blog, Joe says the following:

Several things I will state with all my heart…

I never cheated on a girlfriend. It might make someone feel better to assume or imply I have been unfaithful but it is simply not true. Maybe there were reasons for a breakup. Maybe the heart moved on. Perhaps feelings changed. I am truly saddened that anything would potentially cause you to think less of me.

For those who have expressed concern over the “27 second” phone call. I called to discuss feelings with the other person. Those feelings were obviously not well received. I did not end the conversation. Someone else did. Phone calls can only last as long as the person on the other end of the line is willing to talk. A phone call can be pretty short when someone else ends the call. The only difference in this conversation was that I shared something the other person did not want to hear.

There were later attempts at communication that had no response.

I wish the best for the other person but could not sit back any longer and leave our fans with a wrong impression of the truth.

Whatever, stupid JoBro. You were a dumbass to leave the gorgeous and uber-talented Taylor for that stupid chick with the weird eyebrows.

TEAM TAYLOR, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

“You know what, if they don’t want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn’t do bad things.”

My beloved Taylor Swift, when asked if men are intimidated by the possibility of ending up in one of her songs.

With her kiddo Moses.

So, my pal Lacy Kemp over at the RealNetworks blog called together her legions of loyal Twitter followers to do what she called a “Social Music Experiment.” She asked people all over the world to send her their favorite song, and she compiled a bunch of them into a single Rhapsody playlist. You can check it out here. It’s certainly one way to be exposed to a wide variety of new artists, although poor Lacy promised to listen to every song that was submitted, so she was stuck in her office for days alternating between Christmas tunes and GWAR.

It gave me an idea. I’m always looking for new songs to run to and/or work out to. Especially now that I’m training for a half-marathon, I’m spending a lot of time running and for some reason it’s always hard to come up with good tracks for my jogs. And I have a new Rhapsody mp3 player, so I have to load a bunch of new music on it anyway. Sooooo …

I was hoping you guys could help me come up with a new playlist. An Evil Beet Work Out playlist. It would be awesome if you could leave in the comments some of your favorite songs to work out to. I’ll put them all on a single Rhapsody playlist so you guys can check it out, too.

Thanks!!!

Here’s a first look at Jen’s appearance on 30 Rock tonight, where she’ll play a psychotic former roommate of Liz’s who becomes obsessed with Jack.

Listen, people, I don’t care why you tune into 30 Rock, just tune in! This is like one of three shows on television today that I still find watchable. I’ll just die if it gets canceled.

It’s a little French girl. Telling a little story. And it is mind-blowingly adorable.

And I just keep watching it and thinking to myself, like, “Damn! Who taught this girl her French? She speaks it really well.”