Ya know, I've been leaving the no-longer-new Daily News gossip maven Lloyd Grove to his own devices. Let me explain. Remember that one Simpson's Halloween episode where all these giant advertising icons came to life and stampeded on the town and killed everyone? And then Lisa figured out that to make them go away, everyone just had to ignore them. Because, you see, they craved the attention. Anyway: that was my theory of life with Lloyd Grove.

But it didn't work. Lloyd doesn't care that we don't care. The social pressure has been building, and finally, blogger Ron Mwangaguhunga has blown a bit of a gasket over a Lloyd Grove item regarding Dick Cheney's Francophobia: "Lloyd Grove: extricate yourself from those swishy dinner parties at Tina Brown's pad and put your nose to the grindstone and give us the real lowdown."
Message to Lloyd Grove [Ron M.]