During a recent concert at NYC’s Cutting Room, Alanis Morissette spoke to the audience about how she’s not in the least bit bothered by ex-fiance Ryan Reynolds‘ new engagement to Scarlett Johansson:

Every time I go through something difficult, I think, this is the mother lode. I’m not going to get through this one. And then six months later I’m like, what’s his name again?

Yeah, because that doesn’t sound bitter at all.

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Alanis Morissette, who once owned a tiny piece of Ryan Reynolds‘ heart, has successfully angered a blogger after screwing him out of $200 and his credibility (according to said blogger, of course). The guy claims her publicist approached him to write a story about Alanis’ tour with Matchbox Twenty, but only after securing the story with his editor for $200. Once he assured the publicist the story was a go, Alanis proceeded to flake out on six scheduled interviews (she was busy sleeping during one scheduled for 2:30 p.m.), thus costing him the story and money.

The blogger attempted to get his sweet revenge when the same publicist invited him to sit in on a conference call, where he confronted Alanis with the situation. Her publicist disconnected him from the call once he said his piece, but Alanis never responded or attempted to make amends. Naturally, the blogger hopes the two appear in their next lives as “factory farm chickens pumped full of hormones.” And we don’t have much sympathy for her either — the woman got to wake up next to Reynolds’ beautiful face for years. She needs to spread the goodwill.

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What happened to the “jagged little pill“? And have you ever seen a sillier rebranding effort?

According to a publicity stunt conjured by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton can claim as cousins an odd assortment of famous people. For instance, Clinton is a cousin of permamommy actress Angelina Jolie. Interesting, but not implausible. That is, until you consider the NEHGS’s finding that Clinton’s rival, Senator Obama, is related to Jolie’s longtime partner, Brad Pitt.

Also said to have familial connections to Senator Clinton are Celine Dion, Madonna and Alanis Morissette. Perhaps fittingly, Barack can call six US presidents “cuz,” including James Madison and George W Bush. And maybe he gets his oratorical skills from another distant relative: Sir Winston Churchill.

Conclusions:

• Racists know very little about history.

• Politics has never mattered when the lights are off.

• The Obama camp needs to play up that Pitt connection.

• “Seriously, though, shoot me straight: They don’t mind ya’ll smoking some pot up north?” [DListed]

• Harrison Ford filming Indiana Jones and the Curse of Arthritic Joints. [HT]

• A WWE wrestler has killed his wife, his child and himself. I’m sure steroids played no part. [Yeeeah]

• Everyone’s really LOLing about this “Dramatic Chipmunk” character, huh? [CityRag]

• Rosie the flower child gives her children bullets to play with. People cry “foul!” Trump smirks, demands steak be “bloodier.” [ICYDK]

While yesterday’s “My Humps” cover by Alanis Morissette was a sultry thing of ironic beauty, this video of a cover of a cover could possibly be the anthem for Summer 2007. It also proves that puppets can make even hopeless drug addiction funny.

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• A smoky cover of Fergie by Alanis Morissette. The slower tempo lets you better absorb the brilliance of the lyrics. [BWE]

• Affirmative action with the Jolie-Pitts. Not joking. [DListed]

• “If you’re bored, then you’re boring.” [ASL]

• Completely unsubstantiated rumormongering. [IDLYITW]

• Carmen Electra doing nothing you haven’t seen before. [HR]

• Exploiting Tarantino’s foot fetish to land a part is something they won’t teach you about in your fancy Meisner classes. [Defamer]

• Alec Baldwin being a real mensch. [Glitterati]

Ryan Reynolds and Alanis Morissette finally realized that sharing Canadian citizenship does not, in fact, make a successful or compatible couple. The two had been together for four years, engaged for the past two, but never made any attempt at wedding plans.

The “dress” Alanis is wearing in this picture no doubt played a role in the split.

I tried my hardest to ignore their relationship since my pea-brain could never understand why Angsty-Pants LaRou Morissette wanted to be with Van Wilder, or vice versa, so I’m at peace with this split. It’s what Alanis would want.

In June 2005, Morissette told PEOPLE.com of her fiancé, “He’s just such a supportive creature. I feel so loved by him, in a trampoline kind of way. He’s always very happy for me.”

She credited the success of their relationship in part to the fact that they’re both Canadian. “We already started off with the shorthand, so I think it’s a really great base. I attempted dating many American men. I tried!”

No wedding date was ever announced. “We’re just really enjoying this (engagement) phase,” Morissette told PEOPLE.com last year. Said Reynolds, “We feel like we’re already married.”

Well, I guess that’s true in the sense that you hate each other.

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