Morning Meme: Protect Ronald McDonald, Flaming Teenagers, Marshall's Movie Reviews, plus Meet the VILF

Plus, I offend cat owners (again), John Barrowman's greatest hits, Iron Man cologne, and Matt Taibbi vs. the Catholic Church.

Castle has been renewed by ABC for a third season. I like Castle, it’s smart, witty, and it has Nathan Fillion. Is it too much to ask that maybe his mother, who works in musical theater, could have a gay friend?

Let’s tiptoe around fun with languages.  In German, “Hell” can denote a type of ale. Austria has a town name that rhymes with “bucking” that has just registered with the European Union to sell beer that will be named “**cking Hell.” I really thought this was a joke until I realized it was sourced from the German publication Der Speigel.

Coming Soon: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the video game.

M. Night Shyamalan’s long, long interview with io9.com has finally come out. He addresses humor in Avatar: The Last Airbender and how his attempt to leave out Momo caused his kids to stop speaking to him until he added him back in. He also delves into the issues that have been raised around his casting choices, though I’m not sure it will satisfy anyone.

The same group that killed Joe Camel is calling on McDonalds to bury Ronald McDonald so that kids don’t get fat. I might have bought getting rid of the cigarette selling cartoon, but I think kids are fat because kids don’t play outside anymore and their parents have to work instead of having dinner with them. Don't blame it on the clown. Kids don’t think even think clowns are cool these days.

Here are 12 John Barrowman Must-See Gems. There are a few I had missed, including his appearance on Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder. Highly recommended viewing.

Somebody send this frat house a few kegs of beer. It seems that a bunch of folks attending a Glenn Beck speech at the college saw signs pointing them to event parking and took advantage. The frat then removed the signs they’d put up for the occasion and called the towing company, who removed 53 cars which it collected over $6,000 to release from impound.

I loved the 2005 animated film Hoodwinked!, which spoofed the Little Red Riding Hood myth in a delightful pop culture way. It seems there’s a sequel, which would explain the Burger King toys that came out in January. The problem is, the distributor won’t release the film and is being sued over it. I want my extreme Granny!

Remember Action Comics #1 selling for $1 million? Then Batman kicking his butt with Detective Comics selling for $1.085? Well, it’s hard to keep a good Krypton down, because a better quality Action Comics #1 just sold for $1.5 million.

Marshall from United States of Tara has his own blog, where the character (not the actor) writes pretentious reviews of movies, most of which I’ve never seen. It’s done in character and it’s easy to read them in Marshall’s voice.

Here are 119 Ways To Store and Organize Your Cats.

Diesel is releasing a special edition of its standard "Only the Brave" men’s fragrance in a limited edition Iron Man Cologne bottle. The thing is, it’s just a red fist – it looks nothing like Iron Man’s hand. And the comic book geeks are swearing it’s not Iron Man on the box, it’s actually Iron Patriot (don’t ask me, I don’t know). Is this the scent of FAIL?

I developed a little bit of a crush on Matt Taibbi when he appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher. His mind, his hulky body, the really bad hairline. He eviscerates the Catholic Church in this piece, calling them a ‘criminal enterprise.”

Charitybuzz.com is auctioning off a walk-on role in the next X-Men film, which would be really awesome if I had a spare $12k lying around, which is the least it would take.

ABC is going to experiment with three scripted shows over the summer to join True Beauty and (my favorite) Wipeout. None of the series sound all that thrilling, sadly, but at least they’re trying.

Slow-burn marketing for the new season of True Blood continues. I know about MILFs, I've met more than my fair share of DILFs, but I was unaware of VILFs.

Eric Northman comes to mind.

I admit it – in general I think most parents don't properly supervise their kids these days. Easy enough from my perspective, being single and childless. But today's kids do seem to run wild in a way that my parents would never have allowed. So I think this response is entirely fair...

Let's make this a federal law.

But not this puppy. He's way too cute to subject to children.

This picture isn't political commentary - I just found it strikingly inventive. The picture is from Customs & Border Patrol, and it show illegal immigrants who were sneaking across the border with large pieces of foam on their feet so they didn't leave discernible tracks. Kind of brilliant.

You know what they say...

For some reason, this never caught on as a sport.

I've been sitting on the story about Butch Cupcakes for a month – I didn't know what to do with the Wall Street trader who wanted to sell masculine cupcakes. The whole thing made me vaguely uncomfortable in lieu of other discussions on the site. I suppose it's entirely innocent, and some people want butch cupcakes to eat. I submit that buying designer cupcakes isn't necessarily effeminate, but you're going to have a hard time convincing me that it's inherently masculine, even with camo frosting. ABC News is now reporting. h/t Miz Liz for the video.

Via The Awl, we find out that teenage boys will still act like teenage boys. Now they're spraying themselves with Axe Body Spray and lighting it on fire, where it mostly burns off without permanent harm. While I don't endorse risky behavior in minors, I do endorse setting anyone wearing Axe Body Spray on fire.

I am a veteran. I served four years honorably in the Air Force. I think it gives me a certain right to discuss aspects of military life. And so it is with that prism that I say the general that wants to remove all fast food and first run movies from bases in Afghanistan is an asshat. If the troops in a combat zone, 8% of whom are now on mood stabilizers for PTSD while carrying out patrols want a Whopper, and Burger King is willing to do business in a war zone, they should be able to have a Whopper.