● Two and a Half Men creator Lee Aronsohn attempted to apologize via Twitter yesterday for his misogynistic comments about the over-saturation of women (and their menstrual cycles) on television. “Women, please look up ‘irony,’ ” he wrote at first, before deleting it for a more straightforward admittance that, "Yes, yes, it was a stupid joke." It might be a while longer before we get an apology for the show's portrayal of women and general. [EW]

● Adele says that she'll have a new single ready before the year is out, but that it will be at least another two years and "a little bit" of living before her next album is done. [Us]

● The remaining few details--track list, cover art, and release date--for Fiona Apple's much-anticipated The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do have surfaced. [CoS]

● ASAP Rocky calls Lana Del Rey his "bitch" on their shockingly au courant collaboration, "Ridin'", off of Brooklyn production duo the KickDrums mixtape, which drops today. You could listen to this preview, or enjoy a blissfully ignorant last few moments with out it. [Stereogum]

● Tagg Romney, son of Mitt, is nonplussed by Mad Men's ribbing of his grandfather, George Romney, the governor of Michigan in 1966 when the episode was set. "Seriously, lib media mocking my dead grandpa?” he tweeted. "Dad is fair game, grandpa isn't." [THR]

● A lucky British art collector picked up an original Andy Warhol--a pop-art portrait of crooner Rudy Vallee done by a 10-year-old Warhol--at a Las Vegas yard sale for just five dollars. Worth $2 million on the market, the man insists he doesn't want to sell the "incredibly important work." “It redefines the work of one of the most famous artists of the last 100 years," he says. [NYP]