Morning Meme: Kish Anger Flares, Puppies Kiss, Basketball Goes Gay and Did Lady GaGa Hang Up on Jonathan Ross?

For those of you wondering if Robert Pattinson can open a movie, we now know he can’t.

One Life To Live’s decision to fade away Kish has Daytime Confidential mad as hell. I felt a little sorry for the boys, because it sounds like GLAAD scaled back honoring the show Saturday if you read Brett’s Twitter, which sucks, because the actors did groundbreaking work. And there are multiple efforts underway to protest the decision.

George Michael and Boy George aren’t feuding anymore. Those of you who have been too concerned to eat can now head to McDonalds.

I’ve mentioned my concern about the Texas Textbooks Commission rewriting history to suit their conservative agenda before. And how it affects everyone, because Texas is such a huge customer for books. But this new round of changes is truly outrageous. They’re dropping Thomas freaking Jefferson from American history in favor of more conservative thinkers. I think there should be a rule: If you’re on our money, you get taught in history class.

Does anyone here watch anything on USA Network? I’m trying to understand how they rake in 3x as much advertising revenue as SyFy, the next closest cable network, which I watch regularly. Anyone?

Cutie Matt Doyle has a gig coming up singing at Joe’s Pub in April, and tickets are on sale now for the Gossip Girl, Spring Awakening, and Bye Bye Birdie star.

Netflix ran a contest to optimize their recommendations system, and gave away a million bucks as a prize. They wanted to do it again, but got sued for privacy concerns, since researchers worked with poorly anonymized data. I knew all this, but I didn’t realize one of the people who sued them was a closeted lesbian who feared her rental history could out her.

At this website, you will find a classic paper doll you can print out and play with and dress. Did I mention it was modeled on film star Colby Keller? The page is SFW.

The San Francisco Chronicle has a great story about the Gay and Lesbian night at the Golden State Warriors game last week. Other than some seriously upscale tailgating, it sounds like it was just a normal night at the arena. But then again, I’ve spent some time in luxury suites at sports stadiums, and maybe it wasn’t any more upscale than any other night.

A lesbian soldier was discharged after the local police department saw her marriage license through the window of her house and reported her to her commander. That’s right – no asking, no telling, just a third party outing.

There was a survey of straight people about what they do, and do not consider to be “sex.” By these results, you’ll be disturbed to know that gay men do not do anything that qualifies as sex if straight people do it.

The Writers Guild of America, West’s Gay and Lesbian Writers Committee and the Committee of Black Writers will be sponsoring “Flipping the Script: Beyond Homophobia in Black Hollywood” on March 23. Participating writers are like the rock stars of Hollywood, including Paris Barclay.

TeenNick has announced plans to turn DeGrassi: The Next Generation into a telenovela format, five days/week format. With any luck, they’ll have time to explore Riley’s life.

I’m trying not to giggle too much while I try and explain that the Daily Mail has been caught flat out lying about the research of a “child protection expert” and the perils of Facebook. They “ghost wrote” the pieces from the expert, and have now had to go back and correct parts of the story, and retract and apologize for other parts. 

It turns out Bruce Willis lied to us – it’s not simple to nuke a killer asteroid and save the planet, because the rocks just pull back together from their own shared gravity, and you have the same problem rock hurtling at you in about two hours.

I had two cute animals to brighten up your Monday morning, and I really couldn't decide. I hope you like puppies.

They're kissing!

John Barrowman made a double appearance on the site last week for his birthday, but the real party was evidently in Las Vegas, and he didn't follow the "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" rule.

Scott, John, and friend Gavin.

We'll have extensive coverage of the GLAAD Media Awards (that Flying Monkey won) later in the day, but I have an outside source that proves the Flying Monkey and editor Michael Jensen spend their time with the beautiful people.

Doesn't get more beautiful than Ronnie.

I've seen penguins with six-pack holders (Happy Feet), but I've never seen a crab wearing a teapot. Evidently a gay crab wearing a teapot.

Does he get a coffee urn when he outgrows the teapot?

As optical illusions go, this is one of the weirder I've ever featured. Sorry it's so small, but resizing these animations takes software beyond AfterElton.com's budget.

So many cheap jokes.

From the world of advertising, I have this ad for Durex XLm condoms. Durex has been putting out some really great ads lately, but some are too racy for us.

If they wear nothing under their kilts ...

Cutie married out musician Matt Morris sat down with John Polly over at NewNowNext last month and answered a few questions. Here we find out he loves Golden Girls and RuPaul's Drag Race, in case anyone had any doubts about him. One of us. One of us.

Adam Lambert sat down with ABC's Nightline for an interview last week. I guess he's still only allowed on the network on a serious tape delay, since he was in Australia while it aired as far as I know.

And finally, Robert Rodriguez popped up in Austin for SXSW with some footage from Predators. He seems completely aware that the franchise was done to death with Arnold.

Lady GaGa sat down on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and talked about a range of issues, but mostly about her clothes. But the bit where she talks about why she wore the telephone hat to the interview made me laugh out loud.