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Lady Gaga at the Bitter End Nightclub (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Deal of the Day: New Lady Gaga Album: $3.99."

At CBS News 2 New York:

Lady Gaga Flashes Too Much in London

Or at least so says one of the commenters at the piece linked by Althouse, "'Isn't there some classic rule, 'Underboob or underbutt, not both'?..."

And at London's Daily Mail, "Lady Gaga flashes some underboob as she gives onlookers an eyeful in London."

Lady Gaga Denim Ensemble

She looks great!

At London's Daily Mail, "Lady Gaga reveals her slender figure in denim two-piece ensemble as she hits the studio after split from fiancé Taylor Kinney."

Lady Gaga at Brandon Maxwell's Debut Show in New York (VIDEO)

At London's Daily Mail, "Lady Gaga displays extreme cleavage in black pantsuit as she and designer pal Nicola Formichetti hit up Brandon Maxwell's NYFW show."

And watch, at AP, "Gaga Supports Brandon Maxwell."

Lady Gaga Flaunts Her figure in Tight Black Top and Latex Fishtail Skirt in Hollywood

Hey, no complaints here.

Catwoman glasses too!

At London's Daily Mail, "Lady Gaga flaunts her ample cleavage and pert derriere in tight black top and PVC fishtail skirt as she dines out in Hollywood."

Lady Gaga Steps Out Wearing Blue Gown as She Heads to Studio for Rehearsal in New York City

She's still got it.

At Egotastic!, "Lady Gaga Steps Out in Blue Gown in NYC."

Here's That Risqué Lady Gaga 'Applause' Video

Well, it's hippest thing since Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines."

Public nudity sure is cool nowadays.

At London's Daily Mail, "She still has naked ambition! Lady Gaga writhes in revealing clamshell costume in new video for Applause."

Lady Gaga Slams 'Stalker' Perez Hilton

At Twitchy, "Lady Gaga goes nuclear on Perez Hilton, says he is stalking her."

Plus, "‘f*ggot’: Got H8? Lady Gaga fans hurl anti-gay slurs at Perez Hilton."

Funny, but I remember the two being all buddy-buddy back in the day. What's up with that?

But good for Gaga. I can't stand Perez Hilton.

DO I NEED TO BE SHOT IT IN THE HEAD FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT HIM AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT HARASSES ME HAS GONE TOO FAR? IM A HUMAN BEING

— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) August 18, 2013

Well, Lady Gaga's No Slacker on Feedin' the Media Beast

I was joking about this the other day, "You Must Feed the Never-Ending Demands of the Multi-Media Beast!"

But Gaga's not joking. She keeps the media in feeding frenzy mode, seemingly 24/7.

At London's Daily Mail, "You've got something on your face! A mucky Lady Gaga bares all (again) in arty shoot for V magazine."

And check V Magazine on Instagram.

Lady Gaga Steps Out in Los Angeles

Well, it's a little more than just stepping out. With Lady Gaga she's gotta shock the crowd with a totally sheer mesh bodysuit, black bra and thong underwear.

Wild.

At London's Daily Mail, "Taking fashion tips from Britney? Lady Gaga wears a jewel-encrusted, sheer bodysuit over a black bra and thong."

And folks wondered previously if she'd had plastic surgery on her nose. She seen here with her dog Fozzi, via Twitter.

Plus, at the Hollywood Reporter, "Lady Gaga Releases 'Applause' One Week Early After Leaks, Anti-Piracy Campaign." And at Rolling Stone, "Listen: Lady Gaga Breaks Out Disco Stick for 'Applause'."

Lady Gaga and Madonna Facing Punishment in Russia

Putin leads the world's biggest rogue regime.



More at Memeorandum.

Lada Gaga, Slimmed Down, Steps Out in New York With Revealing Little Skirt and Top

At London's Daily Mail, "That's one way to keep cool! Skinny Lady Gaga steps out in just her bra in balmy New York... then airs her boots out of the car window."

She looks a lot better --- she had ballooned big time there for awhile. But she had plastic surgery on her nose? See, "Does she nose something we don't? Lady Gaga sparks speculation she has had plastic surgery on her face."

Allen West Hammers Lady Gaga's Homosexual National Anthem!

Awesome!

At Twitchy, "Allen West calls out Lady Gaga for ‘reprehensible’ version of National Anthem."

Gaga’s nat’l anthem defiling is reprehensible. She & all who cheer her should apologize 2 all serving & retired members of the Armed Forces.

— Allen West (@AllenWest) July 1, 2013

And watch it here, "Lady Gaga Changes National Anthem: 'Land of the Free, and the Home for the Gay...'"

Lady Gaga Changes National Anthem: 'Land of the Free, and the Home for the Gay...'

They're bringing on the backlash.

At Twitchy, "‘Disrespectful’: Lady Gaga ripped for changing the words to the national anthem."

And at the Washington Times, "Lady Gaga amends national anthem: ‘Land of the free, and the home for the gay’."

Lady Gaga Likes Having Sex on the Beach

From Gaga's interview in the September Vogue, reported in the New York Post, "Gaga’s sex on the beach."

Also photos at Billboard, "Lady Gaga's Vogue September Cover: Inspired by RuPaul, Fozzie Bear."

Lady Gaga Indonesia Concert Canceled After Islamic Hardliners Denounce 'Vulgar' Performer

The report's at the Wall Street Journal, "Indonesia Blocks Gaga After Islamists Protest."

And at Atlas Shrugs, "Why Doesn't Gaga Go Gaga Over Sharia?"

Also at London's Daily Mail, "You definitely won't get into Indonesia in that outfit! A ginger Lady Gaga struts through the airport in just a Chanel jacket."

Lady Gaga's Gay Pride Gig in Rome?

I had no idea? Much less the fact that the State Department sponsored. Rim-station diplomacy. Who knew?

At CNS News, "Hillary: State Dept. ‘Instrumental in Sealing Deal’ For Lady Gaga’s Gay Pride Gig in Rome":

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday that the State Department played an instrumental role in “sealing the deal” for pop-rock star Lady Gaga to perform at a gay pride rally in Rome, Italy.

Clinton specifically pointed to a letter that David Thorne, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, sent to Lady Gaga urging her to participate in the event.

“And then there is the work that our embassy team in Rome has been doing,” Clinton said. “Two weeks ago they played an instrumental role in bringing Lady Gaga to Italy for a Euro Pride concert.

“Now as many of you know Lady Gaga is Italian American and a strong supporter of LGBT rights,” said Clinton. “And the organizers of the Euro Pride event desperately wanted her to perform and a letter to her from Ambassador Thorne was instrumental in sealing the deal.”

Via Memeorandum and Weasel Zippers.

Lady Gaga Attracts Marxist Philosopher Slavoj Žižek (and Vice Versa)

I still like her, but she makes it hard. Sheesh.

At New York Post, "Marxist Theorist Slavoj Žižek 'The World's Hippest Philosopher' Catches Lady Gaga's Attention."

Lady Gaga has struck up a strong friendship with mysterious Marxist Slavoj Zizek, dubbed "the world's hippest philosopher."

In the midst of her rift with long-term boyfriend Luc Carl, eyebrows were raised over Gaga's decision to spend a lot of time with the 62-year-old, bearded, postmodern theorist and pal of Julian Assange while she was touring the UK and US this spring.

Sources say Gaga and Slovenian-born Zizek -- who like Salman Rushdie seems to be intellectual catnip to beautiful women and who was once married to Argentine model Analia Hounie -- spent time together discussing feminism and collective human creativity. The pop star also agreed to support Zizek at a March rally in London when the lecturers' union UCU was on strike.

In a recent blog post titled "Communism Knows No Monster," Zizek called Gaga "my good friend" and said, "There is a certain performance of theory in her costumes, videos and even (some of) her music." He says her infamous meat dress is a reference to "the consistent linking in the oppressive imaginary of the patriarchy of the female body and meat, of animality and the feminine."

More at that link above, and check DSG, "ŽIŽEK/GAGA: Communism Knows No Monster." Too much drivel, but it's the nihilist, postmodern insight into Gaga and culture's that's key. Freaky.

RELATED: See Adam Kirsch, at TNR, "The Deadly Jester":

The curious thing about the Žižek phenomenon is that the louder he applauds violence and terror—especially the terror of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, whose "lost causes" Žižek takes up in another new book, In Defense of Lost Causes—the more indulgently he is received by the academic left, which has elevated him into a celebrity and the center of a cult. A glance at the blurbs on his books provides a vivid illustration of the power of repressive tolerance. In Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, Žižek claims, "Better the worst Stalinist terror than the most liberal capitalist democracy"; but on the back cover of the book we are told that Žižek is "a stimulating writer" who "will entertain and offend, but never bore." In The Fragile Absolute, he writes that "the way to fight ethnic hatred effectively is not through its immediate counterpart, ethnic tolerance; on the contrary, what we need is even more hatred, but proper political hatred"; but this is an example of his "typical brio and boldness." And In Defense of Lost Causes, where Žižek remarks that "Heidegger is 'great' not in spite of, but because of his Nazi engagement," and that "crazy, tasteless even, as it may sound, the problem with Hitler was that he was not violent enough, that his violence was not 'essential' enough"; but this book, its publisher informs us, is "a witty, adrenalinfueled manifesto for universal values."

More Stalinist terror AND Hitler wasn't violent enough.

No wonder he's the bomb on the left. The is right up Robert Farley's alley!

(And folks gotta read that whole TNR essay. It's a real encapsulation of today's left:

That liberalism is evil and that communism is good is not his conclusion, it is his premise; and the contortions of his thought, especially in his most political books, result from the need to reconcile that premise with a reality that seems abundantly to indicate the opposite.

Hence the necessity of the Matrix, or something like it, for Žižek's worldview. And hence his approval of anything that unplugs us from the Matrix and returns us to the desert of the real—for instance, the horrors of September 11. One of the ambiguities of Žižek's recent work lies in his attitude toward the kind of Islamic fundamentalists who perpetrated the attacks. On the one hand, they are clearly reactionary in their religious dogmatism; on the other hand, they have been far more effective than the Zapatistas or the Porto Alegre movement in discomfiting American capitalism. As Žižek observes, "while they pursue what appear to us to be evil goals with evil means, the very form of their activity meets the highest standard of the good." Yes, the good: Mohammed Atta and his comrades exemplified "good as the spirit of and actual readiness for sacrifice in the name of some higher cause." Žižek's dialectic allows him to have it all: the jihadis are not really motivated by religion, as they say they are; they are actually casualties of global capitalism, and thus "objectively" on the left. "The only way to conceive of what happened on September 11," he writes, "is to locate it in the context of the antagonisms of global capitalism" ...

When it comes to the heart of the matter, what Žižek wants is not dialectic, but repetition: another Robespierre, another Lenin, another Mao. His "progressivism" is not linear, it is cyclical. And if objective conditions are different from what they were in 1789 or 1917, so much the worse for objective conditions. "True ideas are eternal, they are indestructible, they always return every time they are proclaimed dead," Žižek writes in his introduction. One of the sections in the book is titled "Give the dictatorship of the proletariat a chance!"

He's murderous. That sounds like REPSAC = CASPER. Perfectly. Evil)

Lady Gaga 'Judas' No Shows in Easter Debut

I've been keeping my eyes open for this, given the major press for the video, with claims about an Easter release. At NME, "Lady Gaga to release 'Judas' video over Easter?" And Gigwise, "Lady Gaga 'Judas' Video to Debut Over Easter." Perhaps not, since no sign yet, and no clue at Gaga's Twitter feed.

Anyway, there's an interesting background report from Steve Pond, "Lady Gaga's Easter Marketing Plan for 'Judas': Tweets, Leaks, Sacrilege." Also, at In This Week, "Lady Gaga is In Love with 'Judas' and the Catholic Church is Pissed: What Would Madonna Do?"

RELATED: At Hollywood Life, "Catholic League On Gaga’s ‘Judas’: ‘If She Had More Talent, We’d Be More Offended’."

Lyrics here.