Earlier this week, Brit-pop's finest Blur released Blur 21, an exhaustive box set featuring expanded versions of all seven of their studio albums, bonus discs of demos and outtakes and a few DVDs. It's over 20 hours of music. Blur has long represented something very particular in my life whatever the time (Damon Albarn is the first guy I ever allowed myself to acknowledge being attracted to) and with this insurmountable deluge of media, now is no exception.

On Thursday, swimmer Ryan Lochte's mother Ileana "Ike" Lochte took "Cool Mom" to a whole new level when she leaned in to Devil in a slick tailored suit Matt Lauer and told him her son is a wham-bam, Your money's on the dresser, Chocolate kind of guy:

Ryan Lochte is "a dope person" but not K. Michelle's boyfriend. And if you don't know who K. Michelle is, now you do.

Passengers aboard a New York-bound Delta commuter flight were forced to deplane Wednesday night after Pittsburgh International Airport employees discovered a cluster of honey bees clinging to the jetliner's wing.

Super-intense, super-popular fitness fad/ cult/ greatest-thing-ever Crossfit has more than a few injuries and internet jokes: an existential threat that, many Crossfit leaders and gym owners fear, could destroy the happy nationwide fitness utopia they've created.

This week's home-video release of LOL marks Demi Moore's tenth straight bomb. The film, which Lionsgate virtually buried during its miniscule theatrical run, took in a reported $46,500 at the domestic box office — about $10.95 million less than its budget. The movie is bad, the reason the Razzies exist.

Talk about calling in sick: A high school music and art teacher received a severe reprimand after it came to light that he lied about killing a small girl so he could skip work.

A few days ago, Pulitzer prize-winning leftist cocaine site Huffington Post broke the news that Louisiana's Rayville Elementary — currently receiving a "failing" grade from the state — won't allow white students to transfer out due a federal desegregation ruling from 1986. A perfect article to be circulated as evidence of reverse racism! And all it needed was a little bit of "here's the reaction around the web" padding courtesy a quote from the forum ADISC.org.

Second Will Ferrell video in as many hours, but this one's too good to pass up.

Something about the Olympics really does it for Prince William and the Artist Formerly Known as Kate Middleton. These two have been all over the games and all over each other since the events kicked off last week.

People kept asking me on Wednesday whether I was going to go to a Chick-Fil-A to stare at the evangelicals on Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day. "You live in Florida," they said, "it's probably gonna be awesome." I guess because they were going to be evangelical outside, in lines.

So it turns out the reality show Courtney Stodden is shooting over the next three weeks isn't a self-titled televised tell-all: According to TMZ, the teen bride and her 52-year-old husband Doug Hutchison have joined VH1's Couples Therapy in the hopes of finding help for their "major" marital problems.

It is harrowing and unsettling that Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day was such a resounding success. Even before the reports, you could feel it via social media boasting.

The Chief Financial Officer of a Tucson-based "catheter tipping equipment leader" was forced to step down after uploading a YouTube video of himself chastising an employee of Chick-fil-A for working for "a hateful corporation."

This year, the Summer Olympics feature three dozen different sports. At least half of them are awful. Instead of hearing all the fans of minor sports complain when you banish them, why not simply fold them into other sports, creating a new, more entertaining sport?

Yesterday, Mariah Carey released the first single from her as-yet-untitled 14th album, “Triumphant (Get ‘Em).” She’s an odd nonfactor in her own song, singing the chorus, a bridge and some backup while guest rappers Meek Mill and Rick Ross do the heavy-lifting (she does the driving on a house remix, though).

During a recent stop on their Campaign promotion trail, The Campaign stars Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis were asked to participate in an impromptu audition for the film adaptation of E.L. James bestselling novel Fifty Shades of Grey.

While frequenting a strip club in San Francisco last night, retired porn star Jenna Jameson took the opportunity to endorse Mitt Romney for President.

As I write this, British defense lawyer Myles Jackman is trying an obscenity case in the UK. His client has been charged with possession of "extreme pornography"—in this case, fisting porn. And he's live-tweeting the whole thing. A very special Follow Friday.

A photo going viral on the Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo purports to show a woman tying a sex doll to a tree as a means of deterring passing drivers from speeding near her home.