Afternoon Meme: "Emmerdale" Honored, Sexy Showers, Tactical Nuclear Penguin, and More!

Plus, Logo preps A-List New York, Die Hard V: Early Bird Special is happening, how Cheyenne's pilot looks, plus Kevin McHale dishes on his boy band days.

Aaron’s storyline on Emmerdale has helped the soap garner nine nominations for the British Soap Awards, including Best Single Episode, Best Storyline, and Best Dramatic Performance for Danny Miller.

Michael Musto is saying that Logo’s new reality show is going to be called A-List New York, and drop the “kept boy” theme for just being fabulous. Reichen Lehmkuhl still tries to convince me that seeing him, photographer Mike Ruiz and somebody named Jack Hazzan flit around the city and Pines acting special isn’t a trainwreck, but it just makes me want to disconnect the cable. Maybe if they film it all nude, I could watch with the sound off.

They’ve begun writing Die Hard V. Rumor has it the whole thing takes place in a retirement community in Boca Raton.

November 18, 2011 is the date you want to head down to your bomb shelters, because that’s when Twilight: Breaking Dawn is hitting the theaters.

The latest list of how networks are feeling about their pilots for fall is out, and things look O.K. for Cheyenne Jackson and It Takes A Village. Less positive is the “risky” Quintuplets. We’re poring over the list to figure out what matters.

Outsports.com reports that New Zealand’s Olympic short-track speed skater Blake Skjellerup has come out in DNA. It’s evidently one of those “open secret” things, and he and his partner even visited the Pride House at Whistler, he’d just never told the press. Still, it’s another athletic trail blazed.

There’s a new Internet Privacy bill making its way through Congress. It’s not dissimilar to what most of Europe has, and it spells out what kind of information a site can require you to “opt out” of versus “opt in” to sharing. Basically, companies and privacy groups all hate it, but what’s interesting is that one piece of information that you will have to explicitly opt-in to share is sexual preference.

With network news organizations shedding staff like trees are shedding pollen, CNN and CBS are talking again about sharing resources and costs. This could also open the door to Anderson Cooper replacing Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News.

Here’s a compilation of the 14 Celeb Stud’s Steamy Shower Scenes. As long as you don’t press play on Starship Troopers, it’s mostly waist up action, but still pretty.

A Picasso, Green Leaves and Bust, has sold for a record $106.5 million at auction. What’s funny is the picture is classic Picasso, with none of the body parts where they should be, but on The View today, they still made them blur out the circle with a dot in the middle that may or may not be a breast.

PR guru Howard Bragman is bragging about orchestrating country star Chely Wright’s coming out, essentially saying the buzz that led to the leak was necessary to get the publicity Chely wanted. The secrecy was just a ploy to drive coverage, and as the media, we were all suckers.

For yet something else Glee-related, New York Magazine interviewed Kevin McHale who talks about balancing nerdy-Artie vs. Ghetto-Artie and.says he’s going to get more screen time coming up.

I found this article about the army that does maintenance on Disneyland at night, from gum removal to gardening, completely fascinating. The gardeners work with mining lamps, and they spay-and-neuter the army of feral cats that keep down the rodent population. No word on how they keep Remy safe.

This early preview of The Promise, about President Obama’s first year in office, wouldn’t fit here, if it didn’t have a beautiful exchange about the Wall Street Bailout that included Rep. Barney Frank screaming “F*** you!” at Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson three times in five sentences.

Yesterday Julia Louis-Dreyfus got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But the ceremony was almost a bust. A CNN reporter walked past the setup for the ceremony and noticed the star said “Julia Luis-Dreyfus” instead.  After calling and warning them, they managed to chisel out the offending name and install a temporary spelling fix for the unveiling, much to the dismay of Julia, who thought it was hysterical and wanted them to leave it.

With the upcoming release of Howl, Allen Ginsberg is a hot property, and an exhibit of photographs he took of friends like Jack Kerouac and then scrawled notes on are on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. now.

Little Ashes, the Robert Pattinson film about Salvador Dali's alleged relationship with poet Federico Garcia Lorca picked up the Schermi d’Amore Rose (audience choice award) at the Italian Schermi d’Amore festival.

I have no idea why, but this picture is pure joy to me – ears blowing in the wind. And so much more dynamic than I expect from a basset hound, which to me is all about wood paneled libraries and fireplaces.

Bassett hound ears are also like Swiffers for hardwood floors.

Because you just never know when you're going to need an Emergency Clown Nose.

But is it Fizbo approved?

Via copyranter, we discover that Bed, a gay bar in the Philippines appropriated this Star Wars image for their weekly drag shows.

I didn't think Vader had the legs for it.

Speaking of Star Wars, TomTom has licensed the voices for your GPS. Personally, I think having Darth Vader give directions is creepy, R2D2 is incomprehensible, but C3PO is probably a good choice for a gay driver's car.

Has anyone ever understood R2D2?

I don't know about you, but this is definitely the droid I seek.

It's finally shipped – the world's strongest beer ever made, Tactical Nuclear Penguin. It's 32% alcohol by volume, and not for the faint hearted. Here we have it lovingly unboxed.

Pint glass or shot glass?

Here's a daily dose of cute.

Betty White is doing Saturday Night Live. Here's hoping she works her particular brand of comedic magic on a show that hasn't made anyone laugh since 1989. But honestly, the promos aren't encouraging.

Modern Family tonight is the infamous airport episode. They've been promoting the forgotten wallet and keys a lot on television. What they left out was how the trip happened.

I was completely fascinated sitting and watching this video of the Oxnard Fire Department rescuing a bear from a tree. Yes, a 200 pound bear. The bear was in a residential neighborhood, and they shot it with a tranquilizer so they could relocate it. But it got stuck in the tree, so they had to figure out how to remove a semi-concious bear from a tree safely. Sounds like a typical Sunday morning for me.

The video of Jesse Tyler Ferguson singing Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" has been making the rounds. I had no idea his voice was this good. What most sites have been leaving out is that this is a regular show put on by Our Hit Parade. Every month really famous people get together at Joe's Pub in New York City and sing 10 pop songs in a big show. And then they end up on the web. While this is the most trafficked performance, they also had Randy Harrison and Jenn Harris. They're promising someone from Say Anything for May - yet another reason I should live in NYC.