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Inaugural Variety Show: All the News You Don't Need

While we are doing our best to keep you informed on all the latest Inauguration Travel news, there's a heck of a lot of stuff going on around DC that doesn't involve the metro schedule or inauguration parade tickets. Mostly, it involves celebrities and other useless information you could live without. But then, that would be a kind of sad life.

· Beyonce Blesses America: Mrs. Jay-Z wows the crowd with her rendition of "God Bless America." Look to buy it on iTunes shortly on the "All the Single Ladies" remix album. [Perez Hilton]

· MC Hammer Twitters: MC Hammer is 2 Legit 2 Quit Twittering. He's keeping us semi-updated on his time in DC [MC Hammer Twitter Feed]

· Declare Yourself Concert: Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson walked the red carpet, Jessica Alba emceed and Maroon 5 and John Legend rocked the show, the latter in a really weird outfit. All this went down at the DC Renaissance Hotel.

· A New National Anthem from Will.I.Am: Do you think the national anthem is like, old and boring and totally lacking flavor? You're in luck. Will.I.Am of the Black-Eyed Peas has just created a new one called "America's Song." It's available for streaming on Oprah's website. Seriously. [Oprah.com]

· Ben Affleck Will Camp Out at Inauguration: Ben Affleck is just like "us!" He says he's going to camp out at the inauguration. Yeah, right. And Joaquin Phoenix is a rapper. Er.... [Us Magazine]