The Morning Meme: Admiral Ackbar FTW, Hudson Taylor (super) Hero, "Dancing With the Stars" rumors, and Broadway Hunks

Access Hollywood managed to find someone who hadn't commented on Johnny Weir yet - Adam Lambert. And you know what? There's love from Adam, "I'm glad he's a trailblazer." We all are Johnny, we all are.

Barbra Streisand’s intimate Village Vanguard concert last September will see a DVD release come May 4^th.

Someone has scanned the program from Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert’s days at Second City Improv. It’s worth the click just to see Stephen Colbert’s hair, which would have helped him tower over Jon Stewart even more.

What Not To Say: Six Surefire Ways to Get Lectured by Internet Commenters is an extensive examination of how to push people’s buttons online. I have fallen prey to more than one of them. I’ll still dispute the conclusions reached in #5, because I think some things in the evolution of language, as they call it, are being rushed relative to society’s power structures. Fortunately they address that in the conclusion that no one will read or understand.

The other day we told you about Hudson Taylor, the University of Maryland wrestler/gay rights activist who even wears the HRC logo on his helmet. Today, via the Airborne Simian, we get a reader tip that Hudson might be playing a Clark Kent/Superman game as the team statistician. I don’t know what to make of it – it doesn’t appear to affect his work or politics, it just makes him more interesting.

This article claims to have the 25 Most Common Cooking Mistakes. I think it’s silly, because they left out forgetting to take the cardboard disc off the bottom of the pizza before baking.

The politically incorrect, hoyay! enhanced Blue Mountain State has been renewed for another season, so we can look forward to more nudity, bad language and plotlines we can’t cover here because there’s no way to make them PG-13. But we’ll be watching.

The Huffington Post managed to post one of those “Duh!” articles about TV Shows The Networks Didn’t Want To Admit Were About Gay People. I hope their health plan covers strained brains, since this was some real smart thinkin’.

Spring must be around the corner, because everybody and their brother is being rumored for Dancing With the Stars. First up, we have newly minted gold medalist Evan Lysacek. No doubt if he does it, Plushenko will go on a show called Dancing with the Super Stars. Also a possibility? Their second ‘mo, Greg Louganis.

Fabulis, a ready-to-launch social networking site for gay men, had their bank accounts at CitiBank frozen because employees at CitiBank told them information of their blog was inappropriate. For the record, Fabulis is not an adult site, and it’s from serial entrepreneur Jason Goldberg, who’s already quite successful as the founder of Xing and other companies. Eventually, CitiBank apologized, but I’d love to know what level of an employee can freeze assets? And is he still employed?

The Easiest Things to Give Up for Lent. My favorite is: Your virginity.

Ole Miss University has been without a mascot for about three years, after they realized their old mascot could have some racist overtones. Recently, the students told the administration they needed a new mascot, and the silly administrators said “Sure – whatever you guys decide, we’re fine with.” Never say that to a bunch of drunk college students. Currently leading to be the new mascot of Ole Miss? Admiral Ackbar from the Rebel Alliance. No word on what George Lucas thinks.

You told us via Twitter, Cracked.com put out a quiz – they show you three magazine pages and you match them to either Maxim, Instinct, or A Bear Life. It was a lot harder than it looked. Can you imagine what Esquire or Details would have been like?

A couple more shots of Broadway Backwards 5 from our friends at BroadwayWorld.com

Gary Beach and Thomas Rainey/Photo credit Walter McBride for BroadwayWorld.com

And here we have a photo from another Broadway Backwards 5 gallery.

Bruce Vilanch and friends/Photo credit Walter McBride for BroadwayWorld.com

Even this polar bear is sick and tired of walking on ice and snow - isn't it time for winter to be over yet? Is this "hurricane blizzard" just a special effect for a SyFy movie?

Whoopsie - that's going to leave a mark!

To all you young people, I don't really know how to explain this next picture. The 70s were a strange, unique period in time. Evidently they were even more unique in Brighton.

Notice they're DC characters. Soon it's going to be Mickey Mouse with Spiderman.

If you needed any proof that Fox News was filled with a bunch of heartless asshats, a flickr user snapped this photo of their news ticker in Midtown Manhattan just when the news broke about the whale killing the trainer. Now I don't disagree that being surprised when a killer whale kills is kind of silly, within moments of the death seems a bit heartless - and that's coming from me, and I'm hardly sentimental.

Give it a day before you're a smartass about it.

I present this without comment.

OK, maybe I would've loved this as a kid.

Need a new backpack for school, or maybe just to carry around your belongings? Do we have the geek answer for you.

I'm more the Boba Fett type, if you can believe it.

Have we seen this before? I think I did something similar, but not quite the same. But I can't even find that.

It took a little longer to get the effect on this.

I don't understand it either. I like to think she's getting ready to go TP her grandson's school.

This dog is cooler than you will ever be. And not because of his outfit - because he's not chewing his owner's leg off for putting him in this outfit.

Would you hit on a guy with this dog at the park?