1.Turns out I lied, the other Maine pics that Andrew took aren't numerous or exciting, so there will not, in fact, be more Maine pictures.

2. Andrew and I watched the VMA's (well, until 10:45, just after Kanye's speech, when I decided that was enough acid for one night and went to bed) and I don't even know. There are no words, but Taytay was lovely and I love her and Blank Space won at least one award, so good for her. She may, in fact, have been the only sober person there. Oh, and I kind of loved Nikki Minaj's opening number, with the giant feathered headdress. But the point of all this is, do we want a VMA fashion post? It seems silly now, almost a week later, but we could still discuss/look at the pretty pictures.
And thus I ask you, what is the point of censoring song lyrics? I mean, we all know what they're saying, especially if the censor is poor, so why even bother? We're just filling in the appropriate 'fucks' and 'shits' in our head.

It is possibly born of the logic that children should never have heard those words, and therefore have nothing with which to fill in the blanks, but that seems ridiculously optimistic and possibly downright stupid in this day and age. Also, my mother taught me more about swearing (inadvertently) than Eminem ever could.

And finally, even if they've never heard the word fuck, and you censor it out, aren't they going to wonder what word goes there, and what caused it to be taken out, and ask someone? Or Google it? They're probably not just going to accept the blank space in the song as natural. It's clearly not meant to be there.

I ask again, what is the point?

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