Reuters - Singer John Mayer ignited a media storm on Wednesday with a no-holds barred Playboy magazine interview in which he described former girlfriend Jessica Simpson as "sexual napalm" and confessed an aversion to sleeping with black women.

AP - Jessica Simpson is raising money to send shoes to earthquake victims in Haiti.

Billy's engaging in some intriguing brand expansion lately -- launching a label (roster includes, awesomely, the Germs and Electric Prunes) and getting "lost in laughter" in the studio with Jessica Simpson, for example -- but the principle Pumpkin still has enough bandwith to offer incremental updates to his biggest undertaking, the 44-track so...

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"'I am blessed,' the pop singer [tweets], linking to two photographs of her with Corgan, 42, in the recording studio. 'Going over a song w@billy and the boxer.' She adds that it's 'fun to be lost in laughter.'" More at People.