Morning Meme: "Kaboom" Wins At Cannes, "Emmerdale" Loses Again, and "Glee" Manages a Triple Play

Plus we investigate Bros Icing Bros, play spot-the-gay with Hellcats, and team up with Nike for the World Cup marketing blitz.

It’s not unheard of, but it’s extremely unusual. Glee just got their Season 3 pickup from the network. That would be for the 2011-2012 television season. This allows bigger planning, better cost management, and allows the show to start talking about syndication deals immediately. It also takes them past graduation for some of the cast, I would think.

At the Cannes Film Festival, a bunch of films you’ll never see won awards, with out Thai director Apitchatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives winning the Palme D’Or top prize.

Something you may get to see that showed at Cannes is Kaboom, the film from Mysterious Skin’s Gregg Araki, starring Thomas Dekker. It picked up the very first Queer Palm Award ever made, and is described as being about a shy college student studying film and toying with bisexuality.

Christian singer Ray Boltz has released his first album since coming out, called True. While the write up states that it has songs dealing with same-sex marriage, bias crimes, and the conservative agenda against gays and lesbians, it doesn’t specify if it’s a gospel album in Boltz’s traditional style.

As much as we try to keep up with Aaron’s story on Emmerdale, it’s not easy from our homes in the United States. We hit the high points here at AfterElton.com, but the blog Aaron’s Story chronicles every word and glance spoken by or about Danny Miller’s character.

Speaking of Danny Miller, he didn’t pick up any wins at the TV Now Magazine Awards this weekend, but he is now asking for you to vote for him in the TV Choice Awards. It’s time we helped this guy win something for acting his heart out. And aren’t there any awards in the U.K. that aren’t popularity contests with internet voting?

Romanian Gay Pride managed to buck the trend in Eastern Europe and go off without a hitch. A group of 200 people marched and attended the festival, surrounded by security. The British Embassy helped provide logistical support.

Even Newsweek seems to get the facts straight about the textbooks in Texas being short on facts. They’ve approved the new religion-centric curriculum, but they did back off relabeling the slave trade the “Atlantic triangular trade.” I guess they didn’t want to one-up Arizona.

Copernicus had a hero’s burial under a granite headstone emblazoned with his heliocentric model of the solar system. He’d lain in an unmarked grave since his death nearly 450 years ago, dishonored by the Catholic Church for his theories.

The new version of “Punch buggy” is Bros Icing Bros. The “icing” in this case refers to Smirnoff Ice, the much-maligned malted alcoholic beverage. If you whip out a Smirnoff Ice and hand it to a “bro” he must drop to one knee and chug it, regardless of situation. If the Bro is holding a Smirnoff Ice on his person, it flips and you have to chug both. Think it’s for college kids? The Awl claims to have a confirmed sighting in Goldman-Sach’s headquarters, and the head of CollegeHumor.com carries one in a fanny pack at the office for protection.

One of the conservative arguments that the Founding Fathers intended we be a Christian nation is our currency saying “In God We Trust.” But one of our first silver dollars, struck in Philadelphia October 5, 1794 was God-free. It also just sold for $7.85 million, which is pretty decent inflation.

The Guinness  Book of World Records has certified Mario as the “Godfather of Gaming.” The little plumber has appeared in 207 distinct titles since first doing battle with a giant ape in 1981.

A newspaper in my home state of West Virginia blatantly Photoshopped two politicians out of a photograph at a bill signing. When they were called on it, they claimed they didn’t want to be seen as “endorsing” the politicians during an election season.

Glee's Matthew Morrison showed off his show choir skills Saturday at the New York Mets game by singing the national anthem, which was appreciated more than his rendition of "Ice, Ice, Baby" on the show itself.

I really hoped for the tight baseball pants instead of jeans.

On Friday Pac-Man turned 30-years-old, which made me feel my age, since I remember pumping endless quarters into the game at the skating rink when I was a kid. Google redid their logo to look like a game, and you could actually play it, which was pretty cool. But that wasn't my favorite tribute to the little guy.

A Pac-Man skeleton from an archeological dig.

Kiwis are a laid back people, or at least they were when I was last there. But their outdoor advertising would never fly in the U.S. First they had the bulging underwear billboard for Hung, and now we have this ad for Marquis Condoms. 

People would march in protest in the United States.

Last week I said I firmly believed that stereotypes could work for us to get gay representation on Hellcats, the new cheerleading show on The CW. And while I maintain that doing a college cheerleading show without a gay character would be silly, I don't see one in this trailer for the show. That could be good, since he doesn't need to stand out in a dance routine. Here's hoping they don't disappoint.

This time lapse video of a space shuttle launch is also suitably epic - weeks of preparation is condensed down to just under four minutes, and starts when the shuttle is still horizontal and ends when it's airborne. When they pick it up to mount it to the external tank and boosters, you can't believe they can manage it without dropping the shuttle.

Through an third-party press release it appears one of the surprise guests for the American Idol finale Tuesday is out singer Will Young who is singing "Leave Right Now" before heading to a party for Instinct, which evidently still exists. Vevo seemed to know as well, even if Fox hasn't promoted it.