Morning Meme: Ebert Rips "The Last Airbiscuit," Cheyenne Jackson Crushed George Michael, and Pee Wee's New Movie

Plus Johnny Depp makes a frantic chameleon, Mike Huckabee syndicates the hate, and does this skull print manskirt make me look fat?

Pee Wee Herman is experiencing a bit of a renaissance. His successful stage show is moving to Broadway, he’s had numerous television appearances, and now Judd Apatow is developing a new Pee Wee Adventure movie.

I own a lot of shirts from Woot! that most people in West Virginia don’t understand. I’m expecting a new one today or tomorrow to confound the people around me. I hope they don’t change now that Amazon bought them. Judging by the letter announcing the acquisition, and the rapping sock monkey video telling how it happened, I think I have a lot of weird shirts in my future.

Mindy Cohn is getting good reviews for her very gay film Violet Tendencies, even if our own Michael Jensen didn’t care that much for the movie.

Six Laws That Were Great On Paper (and Insane Everywhere Else). I’m not sure I agree with the unintended consequences they name.

Roger Ebert is in rare form ripping apart The Last Airbender. “’The Last Airbender’ is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here.” And he just keeps going from there.

Fox is testing an hour long talk show version of The Mike Huckabee Show for six weeks this summer on their Murdoch-owned affiliates in New York, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Tampa, and Minneapolis-St. Paul. If it does well, and doesn’t have an “ick factor” they’ll syndicate it nationally.

A Colorado woman says she was startled by a vampire, threw her car into reverse and crashed into a canal. Was he sparkling?

Pfizer just got a nasty warning from the FDA for failing to report side effects for some of their most popular drugs, including Viagra, which can cause vision problems, including blindness. So … your mother was right all those years ago: You’ll go blind if you keep that up!

Cheyenne Jackson inexplicably went to the New York premiere of Twilight: Eclipse. He got asked who he obsessed over as a teen, and he answered like any gay boy of a certain age, “First it was Alyssa Milano. I loved Alyssa Milano. And then as soon as I realized who I was it was all about George Michael.”

Airplane! turned 30. At my age, “I picked a bad week to give up methamphetamines.”

The Vienna AIDS Ball is important enough to get Whoopi Goldberg, notoriously afraid of flying, on an airplane, where she’ll be honored alongside Bill Clinton and Elizabeth Hurley. Last year the ball, which traditionally has a fashion show on a runway shaped like an AIDS ribbon, raised $1.5 million.

Speaking of fashion shows, what was Rei Kawakubo thinking with the show in Milan? Who is going to wear this stuff? Certainly not me, I don’t have the legs to pull off a fluffy pleated manskirt with a skull print. 

I’m a little concerned that hunky Joe Manganiello (Alcide) from True Blood doesn’t understand the hierarchy of supes in that universe.  He seems to think werewolves can take most vampires, and pure shifters like Sam fall at the bottom. He obviously hasn’t read book nine.

The Log Cabin Republicans handed out “Drill Baby, Drill” condoms at Pride.

Yesterday snicks told you that Miss Opposite Marriage was getting married to some sports dude. Shanna Moakler, the pageant official that quit over the Carrie Prejean kerfuffle, is getting her a wedding gift to show that there’s no hard feelings:  a picture frame from her registry, with a copy of Shanna’s NOH8 photo in it.