Morning Meme: MIT Reviews "Twilight," Fran Drescher Talks About Marrying a Gay, and We Get Caught In "Undertow"

Plus a rapping weatherman, My Idiot Brother, do sorcerer's ever just go to the mall, or is it all good vs. evil?

Bill O'Reilly, you are an asshat. You can sit there and claim that you didn't just compare gays to Al Qaeda, but that is exactly what you did talking about the gay friendly McDonald's ad that runs in France. If confronted, you will act the victim, I have no doubt. You are an asshat, and it's all there on video. Asshat.

I am aware that the New York Times has been printing same-sex wedding announcements for some time, but the piece they’ve done on Jane Lynch and Dr. Lara Embry just melts my heart. It also makes me laugh, because when they imply something is strange about the relationship, it’s because they have wildly different careers. Jane takes mock offense, “It’s not like she’s marrying out of her species or anything.”

Best Astronomy Department prank ever.

A new study claims that by 2015, the NSA is going to need a yottabyte of storage to keep all of its surveillance. I had never heard of a yottabyte, or anything over an exabyte for that matter. That one gigabyte memory card in your camera? A yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000 of them. The estimated cost of that storage in today’s terms is a $100 trillion and we have to give up the states of Delaware and Rhode Island as four story data centers.

Any business with the word “British” in the name may want to take a step back. First British Petroleum destroyed the Gulf of Mexico, and now British Airways is offering terrorists first class tickets. Or at least their art department is. Somehow, the name on the photo of their new iPhone boarding pass that appeared in the company newsletter had the name BIN LADEN/OSAMA.

As if being Captain of the Federation’s flagship wasn’t enough, now he’s Sir Patrick Stewart.

Charles Grodin turned down a role in the new Muppets movie. Does he not know what I would give to just visit the set?

Paul Rudd is set to star in a new film called My Idiot Brother, which they swear is not based on Stephen Baldwin or Roger Clinton, Jr..

Fran Drescher  has always been a  friend of the gay community. Why wouldn’t she be – she was married to one of us for 21 years. Now divorced, they frequently set each other up with men and are developing a sitcom based on their relationship.

The New Yorker has picked the “20 Under 40” list of authors to watch, none of which appear to have books in the bathroom reading section or anything in pop up, so I haven’t heard of any of them.

Details has a profile on Benjamin Millepied, principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. Still, one has to wonder if Details would be talking to him if he weren’t dating Natalie Portman. They’ve never shown this kind of interest in ballet before that I’m aware of. Did I mention the guy is hot, which is the sum of my knowledge on ballet – that the dancers are always hot.

Traffic in Los Angeles is brutal – you can sit in one spot for hours. Now artist Joel Kyack has a solution – puppet shows! Not a solution to the traffic, obviously. They’re preformed from the back of a nondescript white truck with the audio broadcast nearby via FM radio. To find out which traffic jam he’s performing in, you can follow on Twitter.

George Clooney will be attending Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards. I have to wonder at the Guys Choice Awards since they probably don’t plan for guys like me, judging by the categories. But at least we have the Tony Awards.

On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog. But Wil Wheaton would like you to know that account on Facebook isn’t him. And what he thinks of Facebook.

Evidently, now no one knows you’re a cat either, since they can now tweet.

One of the reason's we love Nick Adams is that he's always giving back. He just spent a day with a group of kids from the musical theater program at Talent Unlimited.

He's never taken a bad picture.

Nobody denies that the folks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are smart. But smart isn't the same as clever. It turns out they're both clever and funny, as this picture is all you get when you click on Twilight under the reviews section of the MIT Science Fiction Society.

Does it still sparkle?

You guys have been good all week - have a sucker.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice keeps breaking all the rules about a Nic Cage film by actually looking good. Here they talk about the basic theme of the movie, the battle between good and evil. But has there ever been a movie about a sorcerer that wasn't about good and evil? Maybe about just redecorating their castle or something?

I did some research, and this television station really exists. Whether the rapping weatherman really made it to the air, or if it was just some goofy office promo that made its way into the wild, I couldn't begin to tell you. But they were committed to the bit.

Finally, I have it one excellent authority that Undertow, the opening film for Newfest tonight is excellent. Whose  authority? The guy who signs my paychecks. But it does look like an interesting exploration of love and attachments, even if the trailer is in Spanish with no subtitles.