Afternoon Meme: "Project Runway" Spinoffs, Picking Peter Parker, Jeremy Renner Makes Justin Bieber Look Good

Plus Misha Collins signs for more Supernatural, Vampire Weekend plays dress-up, and Fleet Week hits New York City.

So American Idol wrapped up last night and Crystal Bowersox didn’t win. Adding insult to injury, her hot, lanky boyfriend dumped her Tuesday before she sang her final songs, saying he couldn’t deal with the limelight. Ouch.

A dinosaur park in Wales has a model of a brontosaurus that is 20 feet tall and 30 feet long, and can be yours, if you’re willing to come get it. They’re replacing the big green guy with a newer model dinosaur, and need the space. I’d love to have him, as long as he doesn’t start singing “I love you, you love me…”

It’s a 1999 study that we all know, but maybe the reason Senator McCain thinks straight soldiers are afraid to shower with gay soldiers is because we’re better equipped.

Diddy swears that Joaquin Phoenix’s rapping career isn’t a joke. After his appearance on Inside the Actors Studio, no one is willing to do the same for Diddy’s acting career.

BP can celebrate two achievements today. First, the oil spill is the worst in history, and perhaps 20x bigger than we thought. Second, they may have stuck a cork in it.

Joe Manganiello tries comparing his werewolf Alcide to a slinky. Is it wrong that every time I think of him now I hear "It's fun for a girl and a boy!"?

From occasional contributor Wayman Wong, we get the story that while the New York Post managed a clever “Dancing Doll Beats Ice King” headline for their online Dancing With the Stars post. But in print, they may not have run the headline past Standards & Practices, running “Dancing Doll Beats Ice Queen.” Somewhere, Johnny Weir is giggling so much he wet himself.

I’ve previously mentioned how uncomfortable I am with MTV’s new show about a well-endowed teenager, The Hard Times of RJ Berger. And we’ve all accused it of being a younger version of HBO’s Hung. But some say it’s more accurately a ripoff of a skit from The Upright Citizen’s Brigade.

Project Runway has two spinoffs on the way for Lifetime, but since neither has Tim Gunn, I only care a little bit. First Santino Rice and Austin Scarlett are getting a makeover show. Then Lifetime will launch a reality show about Heidi Klum and her husband Seal, which will be an incredibly attractive show, regardless of what it’s about.

Tina Fey is getting the Mark Twain Award for Humor from The Kennedy Center, so that’s something to look forward to in November. That and turkey dinners. Unless you’re a turkey, then it’s probably just the Tina Fey thing.

If you’re in New York City Saturday, you can join a protest at the United Nations for the gay Malawi couple jailed for homosexuality.

I wrote about the disturbing teenage pastime of “sack tapping” back during the holidays. The phenomenon continues to spread, and now there are talks of “amputations” as a result. Yes, amputations … down there.

 Brace yourself: Willie Nelson has cut his hair.

There are five supposed finalists to play a teenage Peter Parker in a Spider-Man reboot. One of them is mostly known for playing Billy Elliott, which I’m sure is also something that Newsweek won’t be able to believe.

The Don’t Ask Don’t Tell compromise seems to mean different things to different people. Maybe someone should write it down before we make it law?

Confirmed: Castiel and Bobby are coming back for season six of Supernatural.

Sofia Vergara continues to try and help poor homosexual Neil Patrick Harris pass as straight in the Smurfs movie. But she has other co-stars.

Only Tim Gunn could pull off that stripe and check combination.

Maybe Tim could help Sofia's costar out, because it looks like he needs a makeover. Wait - they're telling me that is not Ed O'Neil, but actually Gargamel from the Smurfs.

Anyone could make the mistake.

Has everyone seen what 50 Cent did to his body to play a cancer patient in a movie with Mario van Peebles? And who even knew Mario van Peebles was still around?

Goodbye muscular hunk.

And because I love you, enjoy this slideshow from CNN about the sights and sounds of New York City Fleet Week. 

I've had a thing for Jeremy Renner since he had that really bad cop show, The Unusuals, and spent a lot of time in a pair of black boxer briefs. Here he helps Aziz Ansari try and convince me that I should watch the MTV Twilight Movie Awards. And he gets humiliated for his trouble.

This is another stop-motion masterpiece. The 8-Bit Desktop is one of the coolest concepts I've seen lately. I'm not sure why all things 8-bit are hotter now than they were in 1982, but I like it.

Vampire Weekend, with out musician Rostam Batmanglij has released a new video, this time for "Holiday" right before a holiday weekend, appropriately. With them all in powdered wigs and period dress, it's as quirky as we've come to expect from them.