Afternoon Meme: "BSG," "Futurama," NPH Flying, Stephen Fry Driving, Plus Proof Spring Is Here!

Out super hero director Bryan Singer is adorable, and no one can deny he has a passion for his projects. But I’m not entirely on board with his take on X-Men: First Class. It seems that if you’re going to title the film that, it should be about the First Class. He wants to make it about Xavier and Magneto, which could be a buddy comedy all on its own.

Here are the Eight Greatest Futurama Minor Characters. They’re all great, but again, All Hail Hypnotoad!

I think Doctor Who and I may be done, both personally and professionally. This list of ****spoilers**** for Matt Smith claims he saves the world with Twitter. I’m pretty sure that Twitter destroys the world in the end.

I’m not entirely sure how yesterday turned into a perfect storm of activism on ENDA, DADT and gay rights in general in the United States, but it does seem like we’re saying “No more Mr. Nice Queer.” Have we really changed tactics?

If you hate Twilight, but have to read or watch it for some unknown, torturous reason (fairly sure that the Justice Department now classifies it as torture), you can always play the Twilight Drinking Game.

Lady GaGa is being sued by one of her former managers for a staggering $30.5 million. I wonder if he’d take payment in strange hats?

The MGM Film library is being auctioned off, and the reason you care is because that includes all of James Bond. Warner wants to buy it, but may get outbid by a Russian billionaire. He might decide to change all the endings!

The mancandy that was brought on for Starbuck in BSG, Michael Trucco (Anders) is being handed over to another tough lady. In this case he’s the love interest for Detective Beckett on Castle. I wonder if he and Nathan Fillion will swap spaceship stories?

There’s a new iPhone app out to help you navigate Gay London. Because Grindr isn’t enough.

The Manhattan Madam, Kristin Davis, whose call girl ring brought down Governor Elliot Spitzer, is running for governor herself. Finally – someone willing to bring some class to New York politics.

The new Ghostbusters movie may be in trouble, because way back when Ghostbusters was culturally relevant, the contracts gave people like Ivan Reitman full creative control over the property, forever. Now Reitman is 63, and the studio thinks he’s too old to slime you, but he won’t step aside. Time to cross the streams.

To make a quick buck, more and more school districts are considering allowing advertising on school buses. Teenage boys are particularly interested in getting Victoria’s Secret onboard. Or Aussiebum.

Celebrity photographer Mike Ruiz has one of those tough jobs where he stares at attractive people all day and tries to figure out how to make them look more attractive. This picture of hunk-a-dunk Cheyenne Jackson, I'm undecided about. I mean, it's not like Cheyenne could ever look bad, but I'm not feeling the denim vest. On the other hand, the rise on those jeans is so low that NYC may have had a full moon without it.

Is that hair really environmentally friendly?

As a cousin/copy/exercise in visibility, the We Can Do It! Campaign takes off on Rosie the Riviter pose with a bunch of hunks. You can buy prints over at their site.

Wilson Cruz making it look fine...

Shortpacked! pointed out today that maybe this image on the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese might mean something different to adults than it would to kids.

Yet another innocent childhood image ruined forever.

Neil Patrick Harris took a private jet to Las Vegas yesterday, as people like him get to do. He shared it with the very tall Dwayne Johnson, who seemed to feel if his neck was going to hurt, everybody's neck was going to hurt.

Needs a bigger jet.

Over at io9.com they have this photoessay on what you might do with a bunch of clones you made that went bad and turned out not-so-bright. It's oddly beautiful.

Maybe color code them to tell them apart?

Sad racoon says goodbye! for the weekend.

I was flipping through the BBC America site looking for new Doctor Who footage since the UK seems to have it, and came up empty. But then I saw this very gay clip of Stephen Fry on Top Gear and decided to share. Stephen really needs to spend more time on American television.

Predators has gone past the sneak peek we saw the other day to full blown trailer. The best thing I can say about it is that Adrian Brody beefed up, and in general, there's a lot of beefcake on display.

The truly rich don't ever seem to understand the world. I got sucked in when I read the title of this news report: McLaren To Build Affordable Supercar. I was thinking something like a $50k sports car or something. Their idea of afforable is $220,000, which I guess is affordable relative to their other models.

And do you know how to tell if spring has arrived? It's not the groundhog and his shadow, or the cherry blossoms in D.C. It's when your Zamboni falls through the ice. That's the sign that winter sports are done until December comes 'round again.