Morning Meme: Young Professor X Is Hot, John Waters Talks Modern Manners, and a History of Abs In Sword and Sandal Films

Plus, gazing at Thomas Jane, Don't Ask Don't Tell takes a welcome hit, and bear fashions come to America.

James McAvoy has been cast as a young Professor X in X-Men: First Class. While it’s a huge role for McAvoy, I have to wonder if he’s staring into a mirror, running his fingers though his thick, luxurious hair and sobbing quietly.

Does ABC have plans to take ABC.com and Hulu to a subscription model? Maybe “plans” is a strong word, but they are taking people’s temperature on the idea of charging for something you can get for free with an antennae.

 A tranquilized bear falls from a tree and misses the air mattress like a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. You just have to click over and see. The photographer better get a bonus for this shot. And the bear is fine.

Japan is planning on giving our new robot overlords a moon base by 2020.

I don’t know who The Fug Girls are, but their History of the Sword and Sandal Ab is hysterical, and more than a little hot. They start at 1914’s Cabiria and work their way up to Jake Gyllenhaal.

The Bacon Explosion is a bacon stuffed, bacon wrapped Italian sausage covered in Kansas City BBQ sauce and rub. All in all, it’s four pounds of pork delivered to your door for $30.

The Senate Armed Services Committee voted to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell as part of the Defense budget. Senator Jim Webb of Virginia was the sole Democrat on the committee to vote that he doesn’t want any gay campaign contributions, ever. The full House passed the same amendment by a much larger margin later on. Senator John McCain vows to ignore the will of the people, his colleagues, the President, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and all logic to oppose repeal, up to and including scuttling the Defense budget and putting our troops in harm’s way for lack of funding during wartime.

The Brits, Prince Harry in particular, were the first I heard of snorting vodka for a faster buzz. Now they’ve invented “eyeballing” which involves pouring vodka directly into the eye and under the eyelid. It may get you buzzed, but it also damages the eye.

Walter Van Beirendonck made waves last year by showing his entire spring line using “bears” as models. This shocked fashionistas and gay men alike. Some said the models weren’t hairy enough to be bears. I said “W00F!” Now the clothing line is coming to America.

I had mentioned Eyes Wide Open when it played New York, and now the story of a love and homophobia between a pair of Orthodox Jewish men gets a review in the UK.

On the occasion of his new book Role Models, John Waters talks about taste, manners and modern culture. He’s not a fan. Also, “I recommend against straining while reading.”

I never get tired of watching Justin Bieber walk into glass doors. So it’s a good thing he keeps doing it.

I had mentioned one of the proposed replacements for As the World Turns was a new version of Pyramid. Now they’ve picked a host in Andy Richter. CBS really doesn’t care if I remove them from my channel scan, do they?

I completely support raising money with Hunks in Trunks, and if you can get Make Me a Supermodel’s Ronnie Kroell to be one of your hunks, even better. Auctioning off the worn swim wear may be a step too far.

A live action Dilbert is happening. Did I fall in the Hot Tub Time Machine again?

This is supposedly a Canadian billboard for a McFlurry flavor promoting Shrek Forever After. I can't confirm it's real, but it seems to be, and reddit and even nutrition sites are citing it. So ... Good tag line, or Best Tag Line?

I hope there's a marketing director somewhere who can't believe he got away with this.

This is an ad to kill the tourism industry worldwide. It's like Where's Waldo for child molesters. It makes me want to build a ten foot fence around my nieces and nephews yards and never let them leave.

I guess I'm just grateful that it's not a gay beach?

When I get frustrated, I look at this. Yes, I know it's an evil cat, and the fact that it seems to have figured out indoor plumbing concerns me, but OMLG it's so cute!

Awww!

Feast your eyes on HBO's Hung preview. There's nothing gay about it, and it reminds me of that coffee commercial where kitchen sounds make the jingle, but Thomas Jane really looks good without a shirt on. As a thought exercise: He recently did that interview where he said everything about him was average, including his manhood - does that mean that Ramin Setoodeh doesn't find him believable in this role?

Brittany is rapidly becoming my favorite non-Kurt character on Glee. Heather Morris brings her to life, or some facsimile of life. It's unique, but I love her. Let's get to know both Brittany and Heather.

Moviefone created this montage of New York City in movies, and it ranges from An Affair to Remember to the Muppets Take Manhattan. The city has been a character in so many films it should have its own IMDB entry.

snicks brought this to my attention, but Dan Savage and Keith Olbermann destroyed the idiots predicting roving hordes of homosexual soldiers raping America if Don't Ask Don't Tell is repealed. Savage has been a bit hit-or-miss as a pundit lately in my view, but this was definitely a home run.