Technorati is a dangerous tool, akin to the ability to pop open a million vapid Instant Messenger conversations and read them anonymously and secretly.

Amazingly, spammers have found a way to clog it, as they clog all search engines, with apparently machine-generated blogs about whatever keyword you might type in.

Well, almost any keyword.

Want to read real blogs from real people, bitching about their love life, work life, home life, whatever? (You know you do, in a train wreck sort of way, let’s not pretend otherwise.) I found the magic word. (Warning: By definition, many of the links off that page will be NSFW.)

Well, it started out great, but it looks like Guyville, the get-fans-pumped-about-the-new-Liz Phair-album site is effectively dead. And me hundreds of points from being able to qualify for any of the free schwag.

Which is weird, since the early word on the new album is pretty decent. The Support System mailing list, which I’ve been on since … hmmm, forever … is usually of the view that anything after her debut album is crap. And they haven’t been, this time around, which about made me fall out of my chair.

Wow. After Tuesday night’s Rock Star: INXS, I would run, not walk, to pick up Marty Casey’s single, “Trees,” if it were released somewhere other than the crappy MSN Music. (Who, exactly, thought that trying to sell music that’s as difficult to listen to on a portable device as humanly possible was a good idea?) Marty did a great job combining his signature passion with a too-seldom-glimpsed sense of humor in the song.

Otherwise, I thought everyone did OK, but everyone also failed to cover themselves in glory. I voted for Marty and Jordis.