Afternoon Meme: Meet Nurse Jeffery, Colbert Gives Us The Word on DADT, Get Yourself Tested, plus Devo Meets GaGa

My take on Dancing With the Stars, reporters making themselves the story, the dumbing-down of America, and we Double Down on KFC.

Lookie, lookie here: Bossman Michael Jensen is all over the TV Guide article about Kish and One Life to Live. He’s right – we do have to give them credit for telling the story in the first place, but I tend to agree with the article – Mitch Lawrence’s 387^th resurrection is as likely to have tanked the ratings as our smooching gay boys.

Gargh! Scrabble is going to allow proper names in the new edition of their game, meaning kids who know celebrities more than they know Chaucer can play. This is just another symptom of the dumbing down of America. And why are you looking at me like that?

I continue to shower love on Doctor Who in advance of the U.S. premiere, but a lot of that love could disappear if what this article says about romance is true. The Doctor doesn’t do romance, never really has, and if they have him knocking boots with Amy, the show is dead to me.

Lady GaGa is going to headline Chicago’s Lollapalooza festival, along with appearances by dozens of artists. I’m most excited to see Devo.

Recognizing people consume media in a lot of different ways, the Producers Guild of America has created a new title and honors category bearing the rather unwieldy name of “Transmedia Producer” for someone who shepherds projects across the web, TV screens and film. Needless to say, people have already become nine-years-old with the title.

Yet another twist in the life of our gay paramedic Tyler. Trauma, once presumed to be canceled, then brought back for 20 episodes, has been cut down to 18 episodes and will air the finale on April 26^th.

Weekend at Bernie’s didn’t have to wait for Tim Burton to make a mockery of it as two women in England tried to check in a dead man in a wheel chair for a flight.

I’ve had to give up watching House due to writing this column, so I don’t know anything about Nurse Jeffery. But according to the Spurf™, he’s a fan favorite and getting spun off into “appisodes” on the iPhone. We’ve got a hot male nurse in pink scrubs – should we have noticed this already?

Warner has shelled out seven figures for a script based on the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. From what I can tell, it’s sort of an alien invasion meets Groundhog Day storyline, but people are dumping money into this thing during a recession, so it must be big.

MTV has relaunched their HIV awareness campaign "Get Yourself Talking/Get Yourself Tested" with an interactive website and a focus on the college and university population. There are lots of resources available at the site.

I’m nerding out with this story about chemists taking cotton t-shirts and coating them with boron and baking them into lightweight, flexible body armor for the troops. Science is cool! 

In the neverending battle between dogs and cats, cats score a point as a dog left in the car kicks it into neutral and causes an accident. Cats would never risk their own lives like that.

Out Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry is the subject of a $20 million lawsuit from Nicollete Sheridan (Edie) for wrongful termination and assault. The whole thing sounds ugly, and I hope it’s not true, because violence against anyone is wrong.

Over the last few days, we've expended a lot of pixels discussing if animals can be gay. While it might be dangerous to anthropomorphize animals, I think we can all agree that poodles are gay.

Somebody call PETA.

KFC has come out of the closet as a serial killer. That's the only explanation I have for this new sandwich using fried chicken instead of bread to hold the bacon and cheese in. Tasty, tasty murder.

Did I mention I have the countdown clock running on my desktop?

If I'm going to keep showing these illusions, I'm gonna need some drugs.

Everything you ever needed to know about bacon.

I'd like to think you can do both. But I like the ad.

Everybody and their brother is talking about Niecy Nash and Louis Van Amstel's Dancing With the Stars appearance last night, telling the story of a 1960s interracial couple through the waltz. While other blogs are showering it with praise, I'm a little less enthusiastic. Louis was great - he stayed on message, and did wonderful things equating their story and marriage equality now. Niecy, on the other hand, was just way greedy and needy. Honey - the laws are changed, your life is fine, stop making the gay guy who can't get married comfort you for your imagined heartbreak when his is real and immediate.

Stephen Colbert did better by us last night with his "The Word" segment on Don't Ask, Don't Tell. You need to read along as he talks, but he hit on all cylinders.

The U.S. premiere of Doctor Who is less than two weeks away, and here we have new head writer Stephen Moffat discussing the Whoverse equivalent of a pocket knife, the Sonic Screwdriver.

We lavish a whole lot of love on Bryan Safi from infomania for his "That's Gay" segment. But this story on reporters making themselves the story during slow news times is also funny.