Grammys And Gay Twitter Wars

A couple of Grammy comments before we get to...the War of the Gays on Twitter!

I am not a big fan of the Grammys. It's bad enough that this awards show is mostly full of performances instead of actual award presentations. Only ten Grammys were actually given out during the 3 hour, 30 minute show. And I don't know how they decide which ones (besides the obvious majors, Record/Song/Album of the Year, Best New Artist) make the cut. Besides the big four, we saw two Pop, two Country, one Rock and one Rap presented. The entire R&B genre, among others, was ignored. Of those 10 awards, all but one went to someone who performed on the show. (Fortunately, that one was given to Train for that awful "Hey, Soul Sister" thing.) And to have Arcade Fire perform both before and after winning Album of the Year just screams out, "FIX!!!"

(By the way, the Grammys need a host. The awkward ending of the show, with the one Arcade Fire member saying "we have to go perform another song...everyone leave to this song" or something really points out the need for a host, even a bad one.)

I don't respect the Grammys as an award or as an awards show. It's mostly performances. Had it not been for Lady Gaga, I probably wouldn't have watched at all. She was a lot less over-the-top in her performance, by Gaga standards, despite being inside an egg from the time she arrived at the show until the time the egg "hatched" on stage at the start of her performance of "Born This Way." So it was good, but not outrageously so -- like the song itself, although it is growing on me. It was a solid performance but I think she's been better.

Now, on to the War of the Gays!

True Blood: Too Gay? Or Not Gay Enough?

It seems that the "controversy" over Eagles offensive lineman Todd Herremans and his Twitter comment on the "barrage of homosexuality" on the HBO show "True Blood" has died down. These things generally do go away when a person issues an apology in a situation like this. Whether or not the apology is sincere, when it's issued -- and especially if it's issued quickly, as Herremans did -- the public and the media runs off to other stories. Only Twitter seems to want to keep the story alive in my mind, as it keeps recommending I follow him, and I keep ignoring it.

Those who took no offense whatsoever and became indignant at anyone who did, or who blamed the media, usually made the point that Herremans was only expressing his opinion about the show. So when I read this column at AfterElton.com the other day, I couldn't help but wonder if the writer and Todd Herremans were watching two different shows.

Again I have to point out that I've never watched "True Blood," so I can only go by what was written in the column. I'll quote the section that specifically refers to "True Blood," as the column discusses a number of topics. It begins with a discussion of full-frontal male nudity in films (the topic in question referenced in the first line of the quote)...