Gaga Lays an Egg

Maybe crankyjewishguy (CJG) is getting old, or maybe he just isn't getting it at all, but he was dumbfounded by Lady Gaga's arrival at the Grammy Awards the other night. First, CJG is only vaguely aware of who Lady Gaga is. Second, he can't name a single song she has sung. And, third, he doesn't really give a shit about Lady Gaga. But she arrived, as you surely know by now, inside a giant egg borne by four men, or four women that looked like men, or two men and...whatever. It looked like this:

CJG assumes there was an air hole in that thing somewhere. You have to need attention pretty badly to show up anyplace like that, and CJG is sure this piece of performance art had a message in there somewhere known only to Lady Gaga, her publicist, and a few really hip Lady Gaga fans. Actually, it sort of made sense since she was at the Grammys to sing her new song "Born Like This," except that CJG is pretty sure she was wasn't. Like the rest of us she appears to be a mammal and an egg, at least the kind that gets laid, had nothing to do with it. Or maybe the whole thing was an obscure but inspired tribute to dear old Theodore Geisel, the author of this fine book:

After all, there is something vaguely familiar about Lady Gaga, don't you think?