Afternoon Meme: "Change Has Come" For The Temptations, JGL Gets His Action On, Aiden James Is a Cat Person, plus Kristine W!

Watch and critique How I Met Your Mothers's gay jokes, Dolph Lundgren's still scary, what is Ana Wintour wearing, and what is J.J. Abrams up to?

The New York Post has a somewhat schizophrenic report from the premiere of James Franco’s Saturday Night. The report says a reporter asked something about James’ sexuality, and his publicist freaked out, but later James was joking about it with Will Forte, who he made out with on Saturday Night Live. I’m prone to thinking James could care less what people think about him.

AfterElton.com reader JC tips us to a new song by The Temptations called “Change Has Come” that opens with an inclusive message on race, creed, and sexual orientation. Considering their market and age, it’s pretty cool, and you can listen here.

Jimmy Fallon is going to host the 2010 Emmy Awards on August 29th. This will be the first time that the ceremony is broadcast live coast to coast.

The new True Blood minisode is out, and it’s all about baby vamp Jessica. There’s some serious language in this one, so you’ll need to head over to Fancast and prove your age to watch.

Ricky Martin continues to branch out into GLBT activism, tweeting support to Puerto Rican gay activist Pedro Julio Serrano.

Openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson has written an open letter of advice to Pope Benedict concerning the abuse scandal.

Having trouble with your mortgage? Looking at the 2010 Electronic Homes Of the Year won’t make you feel better. Can I call that 18-source video wall made up of three 65-inch plasmas a business expense?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is signing up to do two action movies next. Premium Rush is being called a “chase thriller” while Looper is a time travel science fiction film about people who travel back in time to assassinate murderers.

There’s a rumor that when you sit down for Iron Man 2 this Friday, you’re going to be treated to a trailer for a secret J.J. Abrams project, possibly a Cloverfield sequel called Super 8. Sequel may be too strong a word – it may be Cloverfield again, just told by a different group of people.

Did you know the dark lord himself, Dick Cheney is likely partially responsible for the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? His panel dropped the requirement for a shutoff valve because it was too expensive, plus Halliburton has some serious involvement.

I know I’m probably about to have a hit put out on my life, but looking at the photo gallery for the Met Costume Gala last night, Anna Wintour’s outfit was just awful. I dare say it was worse than Katy Perry’s light up dress.

I just want to put it out there that if AfterElton.com sends someone to the L.A. Film Festival, I was the one first plugging The Kids Are All Right (opening night) and I won’t stop plugging Despicable Me (closing night). That means I get to go, right boss?

Spike tried putting their TNA Impact wrestling show (featuring bisexual wrestler Orlando Jordan) on Monday nights opposite WWE Raw, but it got stomped in the ratings, so they’re moving it back to Thursdays.

Sting is teaming up with Tony winner Brian Yorkie to write an original Broadway musical based on an original idea about the world Sting grew up in, but that isn't really autobiographical.

The Daily Mail informs us that robbers broke into a house and tied up the woman there, but when they realized it was the home of karate expert and action star Dolph Lundgren, they dropped their loot and fled before he could return home.

It had to be done.

I may be catching flack for kittens, but I have a gay twist here - we have cutie musician Aiden James with what he called his "Morning meow."

Well, he can't be purrfect.

I'm not sure where this picture was taken, but I've had a polar bear encounter like this at the San Diego Zoo. It's pretty neat.

The water is chilled, the glass is cold.

Don't you hate it when this happens?

I guess when you're furry you don't mind the cold so much.

This sounds like a solution. We need more circuses, and animals are better left in the wild.

I'm betting that the graphic artist who had to design these was cursing under his breath the whole time that opposing sides in this movie are air and fire, not water and fire.

Looks more blue vs. red anyhow.

Remember the Google Super Bowl ad? Google lets you create your own version, but this one for the plot of Star Wars can never be topped.

I wasted half the morning with this virtual hamster, feeding him, having him drink, then run on the wheel so he didn't get fat. And then I billed AfterElton.com for the time as "research."

Nothing says summer like a big anthem from Kristine W. This is not one. "The Internet (There's Nothing Wrong With Love)" will do for my chair dancing needs today, it has a nice rock edge to it.

CNN has a point, the solution for containing that leaking oil well under a giant steel cap placed precisely over the leak is almost worthy of an action movie starring Bruce Willis. But for Hollywood, we'd have a way for Bruce and team to swim that deep and place it by hand. Naturally, the oldest member of the team wouldn't make it out alive and the heroic heterosexual leader would kiss a babe at the end.

George Clooney plays an assassin in what looks to be the most boring action film of the summer. But he does shirtless sit-ups in the trailer, so that is something.

Last night on How I Met Your Mother, Robin's new boyfriend thinks Ted is gay. It just goes to prove that the show on television with the most visible out actor on the planet isn't above making trite, lazy gay stereotype jokes.