Afternoon Meme: Cyndi Lauper Does Good, Take Kathy Griffin Home, British Zombie Fighters, plus "Dinner For Schmucks"

Plus, greatest beach towels, explaining equality, Fox Rocks (not in a good way), and Whitney's sick.

I’ve been less than a fan of everything that LZ Granderson has written in the past. But his rather simple, heartfelt description of a day-in-the-life of a gay man, which is remarkably like a day-in-the-life of a straight man. It’s a must read.

Fox has found a way to make the only watchable show on Sunday night unwatchable. May 2, they’ve got The Simpsons doing their couch gag to Ke$ha’s “Tik-Tok” which is now stuck in my head just from typing it. It’s part of a whole musical week on the network, which even extends to Fringe.

Disney is still eight months from releasing Tron: Legacy to theaters, but they’re already got writers working on the sequel to the sequel. I guess they want to be sure not to let 30 years pass between the films again.

Bravo and Target have gotten together for exclusive DVD releases of Bravo's top shows (I tried typing "favorite," and my fingers rebelled). The Real Housewives of Atlanta, The Real Housewives of New York, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, The Millionaire Matchmaker, Flipping Out, The Rachel Zoe Project, and Million Dollar Listing all hit shelves April 13^th.

The upcoming robot boxing movie Real Steel may be being compared to Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, but that doesn’t mean the director is clueless about why people will watch: Shirtless Hugh Jackman.

The Fish4Kish movement is still making one final push. Find out how you can help.

The Huffington Post has a fascinating montage of movie footage that was censored in the 1920s. It’s not exactly what you think, as this was pre-Hayes Code.

Science marches on, as does man’s desire to one-up Mother Nature. Russian scientists have artificially created a new element, meaning that periodic table you learned in school is about to be obsolete. Nobody knows if this element has any practical uses, but the same could be said for and of Bravo television personalities.

Out tennis great Martina Navratilova has announced she has an aggressive form of breast cancer and is about to begin radiation treatment. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Cyndi Lauper, at whose feet I worship, has announced the opening of a 30 bed shelter for GLBT youth in New York City.

ABC has ordered a summer game show set on top of a skyscraper. You start with a certain amount of money, and if you answer questions wrong, they toss your winnings over the edge. I don’t care to be on the show, but can I stand on the sidewalk underneath?

Whitney Houston’s European tour has been put on hold as the singer has been hospitalized in Paris with a respiratory infection. At least it was a country with healthcare.

Rupert Murdoch lives in a magical fairy tale land where he says with a straight face that the New York Times is a mouthpiece of the liberal Obama administration, but his news outlets such as Fox News and the Wall Street Journal have no bias at all. Hey, Aussies – take him back.

Hunky Brit Andrew Lincoln snagged the starring role in AMC’s zombie series The Walking Dead, despite rumors that Johnny Lee Miller was set for the role. Brains were not the body part I thought of when I saw him.

I know I have Twin Peaks fans out there - this was supposedly just spotted in London.

Why are baby hedgehogs so cute? And are adult hedgehogs cute?

This isn't a joke, this is a real product. The proceeds go to a cancer charity. Couldn't they get someone hotter than Will Ferrell to be on the label?

Seriously, always nice when stars do good.

Before someone gets upset, this is obviously 'shopped - no penguins plunged to their deaths in the making of this GIF.

But penguins are fun to watch.

Best. Beach. Towel. Ever. Does it come in a Playgirl version?

Today in condom advertising, we have a Mexican ad for condoms which delay satisfaction with numbing agents. Sperm are then forced to get hobbies.

Does this really make me want to buy?

Star Trek kitty will get revenge.

Slate now produces a web news segment they call The Bullet. It's an odd duck of topics, today featuring a brief piece on Alan Greenspan, a separate piece about Goldman Sachs that will make your jaw drop, and a brief moment of truth about the iPad. Not bad for a minute.

This brief clip of Iron Man 2 shows four separate suits at Tony Stark's lab. What does this tell us? And do the comic book faithful know if these suits each had names?

Rachel Maddow deconstructs the "pimp" that took down ACORN this past year and shows how fancy video editing can completely change reality and destroy the lives of millions of people.

This trailer for a the American remake of a French comedy Dinner for Schmucks isn't all that original of a plot - it's just a bunch of mean people who will give Paul Rudd his promotion if he brings a weirdo to a dinner for them to make fun of him. But it does feature Steve Carell on top of Paul Rudd.