Further evidence that the classic-album tour trend has gone off the rails: the official word that Aerosmith will be performing Toys in the Attic in its entirety at Jones Beach next week and Madison Square Garden in September 14. These dates had been previously announced back in April, but not officially promoted as the Q104 sploozefest they are now--wonder how those $155.50 and $95.50 tickets were selling for Jones Beach? Maybe not so well: Toys in the Attic is their best-selling non-Greatest Hits record ever (eight million copies) and there're most definitely a couple thousand women deflowered in Camaros who're willing to forgo the Cable bill to see Steven Tyler do "Big Ten Inch Record."

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Our recent interview with Janeane Garofalo prompted a whole floating online armada of psychopathic crazies to take the apparently not-common-enough opportunity to unleash their finest "Janeane Godawfulho" jokes and other classy vitriol--evidently, there are a lot of angry people out there with some weirdly specific Google Alerts. This bonkers mob, not content to merely catcall, have now brought the matter to their fearless leader, Rush Limbaugh. Though he couldn't bring himself to remember the name of this publication during his radio show yesterday, Limbaugh was sufficiently moved to offer comment. And, weirdly, to engage in some surprisingly detailed 24 folk history:

Janeane Garofalo also said, some magazine, I don't know where it was. She said that the producers of "24" asked her if she would like to meet me and Lynne Cheney when we made a visit to the set. And she said, "No, I have no desire to meet Rush Limbaugh or Lynne Cheney. I don't want to go up and get my picture taken." There's a problem with that. I haven't been to the set of "24" since she was added to the cast. The last time I've been to the set of "24" was season four, and this is season seven.

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David Shankbone

Perhaps you've been aware of the teabagging craze sweeping the nation, in which proud American redneck racists attempt at rallies to respark the flame of liberty across this great land, etc, etc, mostly by calling Obama a socialist. John Galt may also be involved. Now, proud City Paper blogger Andrew Beaujon comes through with a potential origin story explaining both from where the phrase "teabagging," as ball-dangling-sex-slang--rather than whatever the Republicans thought it was when they commandeered it--comes from, and even better, why the teagbaggers had no idea what they were doing to themselves. They don't watch John Waters movies!

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