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Amanda Palmer has been bugging the shit out of music fans in a big way ever since raising $1.2 million for her new album on Kickstarter, then asking fans to play in her shows for free, talking about how fair it was that some immigrant fans gave her their bed to sleep in on tour, and finally becoming the worst thing of all: a TED Talk guru. At this point, the music is irrelevant. But Palmer has topped herself once again, this time publishing an open letter in Salon to Morrissey titled “Let me crowdsource your next album.” One almost wishes it added: "Or else."

Welcome to the internet, where lists published on Wikipedia can quickly be turned into blog posts. Did you know that recently deceased Margaret Thatcher was a very divisive figure in cultural history? I am sure you did, especially if you saw that terrible movie about her that starred Meryl Streep. Naturally, people wrote a lot of songs about her. Here are a few.

It's about time the entire world started kissing Beyoncé's ass. Morrissey has volunteered to start: he publicly admonished the star for her handbags made from animal products at his concert at the Staples Center in L.A. on Friday night.

MONDAY (today): Wildcraft Sourdough Pizza Opens in Culver City
New pizza joint Wildcraft Sourdough Pizza is all about recreating a Neapolitan-style pizza concept with seasonal California ingredients. The slices are pretty fancy, considering the dough rises for two to three days before hitting a 900 degree, wood-burning oven for 90 seconds. If there's math involved in the recipe, you know they've gone beyond TLC. So don't expect to casually wolf down a slice(s) at 2 am. Thanks to the restaurant's crew of partners from Abigaile in Hermosa Beach (including owner Jed Sanford and chef Tin Vuong), pies will be working their way back into our diets.

Please, please, please let me get what I want this time, said Morrissey to the Staples Center in Los Angles as he implored they go completely vegetarian for his upcoming March 1st concert. And the Staples Center reps were all like, "Moz, what difference does it make?" Feeling brutally rebuffed and known for holding more grudges than lonely high court judges, Morrisey took to True to You (A Morrissey Zine) to let them know, the more you ignore him, the closer he will get. Yes, the singer released a statement yesterday proclaiming:

This past Saturday, while perched on a marble railing above the lobby of the beautiful recently restored Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York, before a sold-out concert from Morrissey, it was easy to find the former Smiths front-man’s face: on badges fans had stuck to their winter coats. It was there, after a fashion, in the many fans who had adopted some version of his famous floppy pompadour and it was there, more officially, on sale—posters, mouse pads, and somewhere between 14 and 18 different T-shirts. It was even on the drink tickets, which were in the style of tiny $1,000 bills with Moz’s face right in the center.

Back in 2007, NME posted an interview with former Smiths singer Morrissey in which he came off as a bit of a racist, doing his best Rush Limbaugh impersonation while talking about how immigration had ruined England. "The gates of England are flooded," he was quoted as saying. "The country's been thrown away." Yikes! Morrissey claimed the quotes had been fabricated, and took to suing the publication to reclaim his reputation. The libel case goes on this summer, but NME just released a statement apologizing the singer, perhaps to lessen the legal reaming they're about to receive. 

Morrissey has been a malcontent for as long as anyone can remember. The former Smiths singer is famously cantankerous (and litigious), but despite all his grousing, we’d never guess that he’d actually give up performing.

“We tried and we failed,” goes the chorus to “Jeane,” my own personal favorite song by the Smiths. It might as well be the mantra of the band’s former members, all of whom seem to spend an inordinate amount of time flitting about the (admittedly very exciting) idea that one day they might reunite.

Not many designers (er, actually probably no others) can say they've dressed Pacino, Jay-Z and Morrissey. But Italian fashion legend Angelo Galasso's "Tradition in Evolution" philosophy has an appeal that apparently crosses not just a few cultural divides.