It might've been just another week but for the heroic actions of one man. On Sunday, a pall was cast over the VMAs when the wrong artist was named the winner for Best Female Video. But as Taylor Swift was thanking her small cabal of fans who'd somehow managed to rig the voting, Kanye West bravely bounded onstage and poetically articulated what we were all feeling, a deed for which he was commended by hip-hop colleagues, two presidents, 18 million television viewers, and 93 Vulture commenters. What else happened this week?

• Michael Bay wrote a letter.

• Some other VMA stuff went down.

• Ghostface made us blush.

• We said goodbye to Patrick Swayze.

• Our boss made us watch The Jay Leno Show.

• Dan Brown saved publishing.

• We hit the rebooted Chelsea galleries.

• The Road made us hungry for Spam.

• Paranormal Activities made us poop our pants.

• We visited Jay-Z's old apartment.

• Jennifer Aniston gave us an earache.

• Kara DioGuardi sold us on her new reality show.

• Creation was either kept out of theaters by Christians or badness.

• Harvey got a bargain.

• Pavement reunited! Or they will in a year, anyway.

• Joe Satriani got paid.

• Vulture rapped with Dennis Hopper, Loudon Wainwright III, and Tommy Tune — not bad!

• The White Stripes rocked us, exclusively.

• Jeopardy got a spacey face-lift.

• Susan Boyle got Stoned.

• We handed out Emmys early.

• Bob Dylan and David Archuleta saved Christmas.