All hail the Lord Almighty Gaga.

Coming off of both the stripped-down flush-faced “Stefani” / early Gaga character (still open for interpretation) and the Jo Calderone characters in her latest video “Yoü and I”, the Lord Almighty first gave Jo Calderone the immediate spotlight via his very own VMA performance.

But now it seems that she is shifting to give the “bare”, “stripped-down”, “pure” Gaga character her own time in the spotlight via this stunning and age-provoking photograph featured in this month’s issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

Read more at HuffPo or the accompanying article at Harper’s Bazaar.

It doesn’t get much more perfect than this.  (They do make some pretty valid points though (but do they really?? (oh post-irony (this feels like Inception) ) ) 

Thank goodness there’s a one-page self-help spread on how to transform women into an “actual girl”.

“Cured!”

“This is an Artifact of Modernity” Photo of the Day (9/1/10):

I don’t know who’s stupider aka more scholarly, the Globe for everything that it is, or Time for actually asking this rhetorical question as if it’s even a question.

(via obese-)

Update: Yes, we the Curators do realize that this Time magazine was not originally intended to be next to the Globe and is merely covering a bunch of ‘Better Homes’ magazines (who also probably contain some Islamarama article), but the juxtaposition is surreal enough that we find it fitting to include in the Museum regardless.