Did you even know Kat Von D and Jesse James were together again? No? Well, they were. And now they’re not.

And if you thought they were, in fact, still a couple, Miss Von D understands your confusion. She clarified the whole romantic jumble to her fans on Facebook last night:

“I am not in a relationship. And I apologize for all the ‘back and forth’ if it’s caused any confusion.”

This is the second time the inked couple has broken their engagement, and only in a matter of months.

Honestly? I sincerely don’t want to be too mean about this, because I am starting to feel for the lady, but everything Von D types no longer passes the Bechdel Test.

Remember DJ Qualls (Road Trip; The New Guy)? In the wee hours Saturday morning, Qualls saw a “dude punch a girl,” he says. But when he tried to point out the woman’s attacker to law enforcement, a cop beat him up, right there on the streets of Vancouver.

From his Twitter (via TMZ):

The actor was eventually rushed to the hospital by ambulance but, he adds, the officer “taunted” him as he was waiting. “I cannot understand it,” he tweeted later. “I’m sitting here with a busted face, in total shock. I literally did nothing wrong.”

Vancouver police are investigating the incident.

They’ve been co-stars, best friends, worst enemies, boyfriends, girlfriends, and everything in between. Working together on set and spending their down-time together, they have formed substantial bonds and created a pseudo “soap family.” Romantic relationships are tested when one person’s career rockets forward and another’s is stuck at “go.” Jealousies arise as actors attempt to jump from one soap to another, and arch rivals must find a way to coexist in this sudsy microcosm without ripping each other to shreds. All the while their goals are clear – to grow their careers and to keep their hearts and heads above water in Tinseltown – where it’s so very easy to drown. Dirty Soap Premieres Tonight 10/9c on E!

People are embarrassed to talk about it. I would never put anyone down [who] was in that kind of space. I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life—and if they don’t, I think that’s weird.

—Kirsten Dunst, in Flare Magazine.

Oh, Kirsten! I love her more every day.

And she’s right about the embarrassment thing. I think, in my own family, the word “depression” is never used. Never. (In fact, my great-grandmother always described her own condition as “melancholia.”) And it isn’t as if my family members would broach the subject anyway; there are some things we’ve been taught to keep quiet.

Most people will fight off bouts of depression at some point. Others will struggle with major depression. And Kirsten’s right: if it’s so widespread, why is it still so taboo to discuss?

Or maybe we’re just apathetic about depression. Does the ubiquity of mild depression keep us from acknowledging how serious clinical depression really is? Hmm.

Well, an orator she isn’t.

Actress Kim Delaney—who currently stars on Lifetime’s Army Wives—was a guest speaker at an awards ceremony honoring former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. She was hurried from the stage after her prepared speech became incoherent (and, according to some reports, “inappropriate“).

By most accounts, Delaney just seemed, er, wasted: she was “fidgety,” “slurry,” and “rambling,” and she clearly struggled as she explained that she had “served in active military duty family for five years,” had “seen soldiers come home with painful, life-altering injuries borne of their time and service,” and had “attended numerous military funerals, including that of my best friend’s son.”

But not really—that’s her character on Army Wives she was talking about. “It’s make believe,” she continued. “I have the luxury of doing all this on a television show.”

I think I get where she was going with her speech—film, television, and video games make light, sometimes fantastical or soapy entertainment of the horror and sorrow of war and sacrifice—except that, in Delaney’s case, this point kind of got lost in the shuffle.

And before Delaney realized what was happening, she was being escorted stage right. (There’s another video of the interruption itself. All the producer was missing was a giant cane.)

But the Philadelphia news media has a very different take on Delaney’s oratorical misadventure:

Following a series of apparent backstage production problems at the Liberty Medal award presentation at the National Constitution Center on Thursday evening, actress and Philadelphia native Kim Delaney seemed to make a valiant attempt to rescue the production by going on stage without introduction or teleprompter, but then delivering a stumbling speech.

Yeah, I’d lose my marbles if someone asked me to “wing it” in front of Robert Gates, too. No one had a pack of index cards?

Have you Googled anything today? If you have, you likely noticed the Google logo was gone. Instead, six googly-eyed muppets were staring back at you.

They were created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop as a special Google Doodle. And! You can “muppeteer” each one!

The muppet animations are really simple and limited in range, yet they are so lifelike. It might be fun to poke around with this Doodle this afternoon, especially if you have little ones running around. (It’s raining here in Chicago, so for me, this really will be a Rainy Day Activity. I may stage an entire play!)

Puppeteer and creator Jim Henson would have been 75 years old today; his visionary work continues to inspire.

Meanwhile, in Leland, Mississippi, the town is celebrating Henson’s life and work by renaming their bridge ‘The Rainbow Connection’. Leland was Henson’s boyhood home.