We've previously covered Hip Hop sketch comedy duo Jeff and Eric Rosenthal's The Real, as the two surprisingly tall, Jewish white 20somethings have been tearing through hip hop's most laughable characters, cliches, stereotypes and neologisms for over two years now, often scoring the flesh-and-blood stars themselves (Clipse, Cam'Ron, Angie Martinez, Peter Rosenberg, Max B, Slaughterhouse, Nick Cannon, Elliot Wilson and even Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy). Yet, they went a little too strong for too long, and needed a break from a life of hip hop comedy, and decided to lay low for a minute. Now finished with their hiatus, they're back, and better than ever: their latest video lays the Kanye West-Taylor Swift saga to waste, taking a very loud, fairly unpopular side: Kanye's.

Are you having problems deciding whether or not you hate Ke$ha and how much you do (or don't) dislike her? Fear no more, as she may have presented us with a definitive measuring scale to help with this exact problem. Recently, a video debuted showing Shift-4 and Friends defacing the Hollywood sign. It goes something like this:

If your head didn't explode by reading that headline, then watching the video will. Yes, Phoenix was interviewed by Jersey Shore's Snooki on the red carpet at the Grammys. One of the best things the universe has produced over the last decade (Phoenix) came into contact with one of the most important (and stupid) anthropological studies of our time: Jersey Shore. In case you can't deal with watching the figurative Two Girls One Cup of red carpet interviews, I've provided play-by-play commentary to spare your face the harm:

The Super Bowl is an event not just because of the football, but because of the food. It's an excuse to get plastered and snack on unfashionably delicious bar food on a Sunday afternoon, football fan or not. The wonderful thing about this is that restaurants often "go deep" and present their offerings in a catering-friendly form, so you can either (A) come to the party with the best snacks or (B) host one at your own digs, and not have to worry about preparing oven-baked sheet after sheet of Pizza Rolls and Bagel Bites, or even worse, trying to get someone to deliver during the game. Of course, there's always pizza, which you can order a few hours before the day of, but why go for the normal grub when you can hit something slightly more exotic. In other words: which restaurants are helping New Yorkers get one through the uprights, and bringing forth good grub to the game?

Keith McNally's the celebrity and buzz-magnetized brain behind New York's SoHo standby Balthazar, the center of gravity in the Meatpacking District, Pastis, the Lower East Side's de facto cafeteria of the young and moneyed (Schiller's), and The Hardest Table in Town of the moment, Minetta Tavern. Every opening of his is an event, and even when a restaurant of his doesn't blow away the critics, it still packs 'em in nightly (see: Morandi). Problem is, they tend to be just out of the price range of New York's young and hungry. Until now, or soon, as Pulino -- McNally's pizza place -- is coming, and it's coming downtown, to Bowery below Houston. Today, Pulino chef Nate Appleman twittered that he was hiring. Even better, NBC Local tossed Pulino's plans on their website. What's it (maybe) look like?

This year's Grammy ceremony wasn't just bad, it was spectacularly bad. The producers in charge of the show didn't just make the same mistakes they've made in previous years, they somehow managed to make new mistakes, missteps and completely misjudge what makes a good show. To their credit, the show did fly by, some parts were decent, namely, Lady Gaga and Elton John's performance, and, uh, they got 26 million people to watch it, 35 percent more than last year, but that's it! How did everything go so, completely wrong?

To make a very long story short, early aughts neo soul genius D'Angelo more or less disappeared from the public eye after his second proper album came out, due in no small part to the way D'Angelo's sexuality was exploited after the infamous video for "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" came out. He went into hiding, got a DUI, and hasn't been heard from in almost eight years. Last January, it'd been ten years since Voodoo came out and changed R & B, and also, more or less the last time we heard from D'Angelo. Until, supposedly, now.

A revealing research study 15 years in the making dropped a bomb on the whole Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus thing yesterday. Turns out, men and women are basically the same, sexually speaking. Psychologists studying data dating back to 1993, found that"stereotypes about gender and sexuality provide a largely inflated view of gender differences in sexual attitudes and behaviors." Or, gender differences are over-hyped. This rings true to me: I had always felt like a sexual deviate for enjoying some 'manly' things like porn and sex on regular basis. I decided to talk to my co-worker Foster Kamer about his own views, to fact check this study as it were. I'm not sure if we were able to prove that men and women are both from Mars, but we did come to an agreement on laundry and sex.

Jessica Simpson has (A) pissed off domestication-desiring women of the world by screwing up a marriage with Nick Lachey, who was the recipient of widespread public empathy after two seasons of MTV's Newlyweds, (B) pissed off Dallas Cowboys fans after many speculated that her presence at Cowboys' games in a pink jersey sullied her boyfriend -- Cowboys quarterback Tono Romo -- and thus, Dallas' shot at a championship, (C) pissed off everyone by encouraging John Mayer to be John Mayer simply by dating him. There are few things someone like Jessica Simpson could do to get in our good graces. Really, one thing. And one thing only: farting. And not just farting, but farting in an inappropriate place, at an inappropriate time. Which she did.

It was a come-hell-or-high-water wait, and now, it's over: the iPad has finally arrived, and supposedly, it's going to change everything, FOREVER. Are you going to get one? What will you do with it? How long will it take you to break it? We have questions for this iPad, but more importantly, we have shit to say about it. A poll of the BlackBook staff was in order, and they absolutely came through. So, how do we feel about this thing? Funny you should ask!...