While you were sleeping (or eating, falling into the punch bowl, etc.) ...

Welcome back, folks! Yes, it's 2008 now and boy are our arms tired ... or something (haven't adjusted our sense of humor for the new year yet, sorry). Nothing major happened while AfterElton.com was hibernating over the holidays, but here are a few tidbits to catch you up on the week that wasn't....

• A party for David Hyde Pierce at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone asked the bikini-clad waitresses to put on actual clothes while serving food. Requests for the place to smell "a little less like an apocalypse of cocoa butter" went unheeded.

• Now we know why Neil Patrick Harris was featured on a unicorn in the teaser posters for Harold and Kumar 2: he's featured on a unicorn in the actual movie! Oh, and also: the movie's about drugs.

• Sir Ian McKellen was honored by the Queen (insert joke HERE) in the New Years Honours for his continued work promoting diversity. Appropriately, he was honored alongside Kylie Minogue and the lead singer from Jethro Tull, which is about as diverse a group as you can get.

• Celebrities: They're Just Like Us! T.R. Knight runs to his car, wearing jeans! Come on, I said it was a slow week!

• The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will return next week, thank heaven. Do they realize what having to resort to watching REAL newscasters has done to our fragile minds? Eck!