Kanye West does not care about stoned people.

As you can tell from Joker's Pearl Jam posts (that was, indeed, a hell of a magical show, and I'll have more words on that later), we managed to survive Bonnaroo. In the coming days, we'll lay out our thoughts, share some photos and video, and try to give you a sense of the experience.

But for now, I need to address the Kanye West situation. As you've no doubt heard by now, Kanye was nearly two hours late for his late-night show at Bonnaroo on Saturday night, whereupon he was booed by the fans still in attendance. The explanation given for his tardiness in the news reports--which is to say, Bonnaroo's official reason--is technical delays in set construction due to Pearl Jam playing nearly an hour beyond their originally scheduled set time. But I'm not sure that can be the entire thing: Pearl Jam went beyond schedule (an unrealistically short schedule, I might add, given their usual concert length) by about fifty minutes, but Kanye was about a hundred minutes late. So I'm not quite buying that.

[Disclaimer: We left once Kanye was an hour late, heading off to see a little of Chali 2na (excellent, by the way) before heading back to camp. So any details I give about West's show are based on news reports, not personal experience.]

Maybe the fault lies with the Bonnaroo promoters for underestimating the time needed to swap out the Jack Johnson/Pearl Jam rigs for Kanye's elaborate equipment. Maybe Kanye's crew underestimated the time, or just did a poor job (though I'm hesitant to blame a road crew; that's a thankless task, and if every other show at Bonnaroo was an indication, crews did an excellent job all weekend to keep things on time, and should be praised for their hard work). Maybe Kanye was being egotistical, waiting out Phil Lesh on the second stage to have the spotlight to himself (the most popular rumor, however unlikely). Maybe Kanye was being a little too particular about the tweaking of his lighting/sound equipment (the story I heard from a low-level Bonnaroo staffer on Sunday).

No matter what caused the delay, the fact is this: Nearly 50,000 people walked over to that field at 2:45 in the morning to see one man do a show. Over the course of two hours, he lost about 20,000 of them, but kept more than half. Yet, due to the extremely scripted nature of his (reportedly very silly) show, he did not address the crowd directly: no "Sorry for the technical difficulties," no "Thanks for staying up," nothing. Just an hour's worth of songs, and a light show ruined by sunup, and Kanye's reputation takes another hit.

Smart play, dude.