I have mostly ignored everything except the Super Bowl fallout because I’m in England and, honestly, no one here really cares. I watched Madonna’s half-time show online a few hours after it aired. If only because I was nervous about her hips and the risk of her slipping over in those heels. It was shaky there, for a time, right? All that thrusting and the wobbling somewhere in the middle (I added the video below, even though it’s hard to see through the smoke and mirrors). Anyhoo, no one really talking about Madonna’s performance because a featured vocalist flipped the bird and over-shadowed the whole thing. It was a tacky, basic move. But it worked, evidently. Because everyone except me jumped on it. I would have just ignored it, honestly, except I’m tickled by this update: TMZ.com claims that, contractually, were NBC fined, M.I.A. herself would have to pay for the offending middle finger. Yep, tickled. The last fines (which were later dropped) were for the Janet Jackson slip for which the FCC fined CBS $550,000.
