Morning Meme: The "World" Stops Turning, Fox News Attacks Will Phillips, and Brian Burke Made Me Cry

Plus you can dress like Lafayette, visit Wipeout's Big Balls, and was Little Fockers really necessary?

A moment of silence, because the world has stopped turning. Thursday was the last taping of As the World Turns, even though the final episode doesn’t air until September.

Speaking of As the World Turns, fans of Van Hansis are starting early this year raising funds to donate in Van’s name to Walnut Hill School for the Arts.

When I next start to complain about my life, I’ll think about Rick Oliver. Actually, I’ll probably still complain but I’ll feel bad about it, because Oliver was struck by lightning, and a few weeks ago was mauled by a bear.

I’ll be honest, reading Vanity Fair’s review of the Audi Q7, I kept hearing bow-chica-bow-wow music, because it reads like the script from an adult film. This may not be completely safe for work.

I will not deny that on True Blood, Lafayette is fierce looking. But there is no way I could pull off his look, even with HBO making the clothes and accessories available for purchase in their online store.

The South Dakota Supreme Court has decided that the police officer whoseized the 15 cats that were roaming freely in a woman’s car when he pulled her over acted correctly.

Twilight: Eclipse provided more than one instance that had Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) nose to nose and ready to kiss, at least according to Bella (Kristen Stewart).

Bill Murray is a very strange man. It can’t be explained in under 800 words, soyou’ll just have to read the article.

If you set up a remote controlled camera to observe chimpanzee behavior, you’ve got expect the chimpanzee to observe the camera.

GLAAD has issued a call-to-action demanding ABC issue proper information about gay men, blood donation, and HIV to correct the horribly harmful and offensive statements from Sherri Shepherd and D.L. Hughley on The View earlier this week. I miss Whoopi and Barbara.

As long as we’re talking about made up information, Fox News cobbled together a hit piece on 10-year-old Will Phillips and the Arkansas Pride Parade. They seem to have joined pieces of the CNN interview with pieces from Jon Stewart’s bit last year with wrestler Mick Foley, and claim it’s all happening now, along with hateful statements from Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, who calls it “child abuse.” Have you sent letters of support to the City Council? Stay out of the comments if you don’t want to have an aneurysm.

Steve Martin’s tour rider has “leaked” and is almost amusing enough to remove the stench of the Fox News article – providing you stayed out of the comments.

BP is about to drill in the virgin seas off the coast of Alaska, and the government has classified it as an “onshore” operation because they built a pile of gravel in the middle of the water. In fact, it’s the most ambitious “extended reach” well ever attempted.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is dating actress-model Devon Aoki. Will someone get Morgan a tissue?

San Francisco Pride has reportedly banned three gay DJs from the festival in order to keep corporate sponsorship of the event by Clear Channel, the same people who bring Rush Limbaugh to the world.

Go vote for the rather disturbing sounding gay themed horror film Grimm Love. It stars Keri Russell and Thomas Kretschmann and if it gets enough votes, it gets a theatrical release. I’m a total wimp on horror films, so I can’t evaluate the plot.

Stepped up border enforcement in Arizona has led to the seizure of 108 counterfeit Disney piñatas. No drugs or weapons in them, just federal agents seizing unlicensed Mickey Mouse piñatas.

Oregon’s Tea Party Bookshop has changed their name to Tigress Books so they won’t be associated with “a cult of frightened, Beck-babbling hicks.”

This link is totally SFW, it’s just to Dan Savage’s blog. Pressing play on the video there is very, very NSFW, but very, very worth it if you have a door on your office or work from home. 

In advance of marching in Toronto Pride in the name of Brendan Burke, Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager Brian Burke did a really great interview. I’m not going to lie to you Marge, it made me cry. This quote alone should melt your heart. “The best thing about when Brendan told me he was gay, I didn’t have to take anything back,” recalls Burke. “I hadn’t made any derogatory comments about gay people, I hadn’t told him they were sick or twisted or God would punish them — some of these absurd things that people say about homosexual people. I didn’t have to take anything back. I said it to him. We were both in tears.”

This charming family photo is John and Carole Barrowman, heads down, signing copy after copy of I Am What I Am at the National Theater. Rumor has it they stayed until every fan had a signed book.

Does John look thinner?

Here we have Aiden James hard at work in the studio on his new fan financed album. He's promised us video of the process. 

That's a lot of buttons I could randomly push.

Some of you already have your shiny iPhone 4, and I hate you, because I'm not eligible until September. But one of the major features was the new antenna that runs in three pieces around the edge. It seems if you hold the phone and touch two pieces of the antenna at once, you lose reception. Someone emailed the occasionally responsive Steve Jobs about the issue, and Steve responded. It's like a joke from a Laffy Taffy wrapper.

Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Doc: Then don't do that.

This is the teaser for a new short called Meltdown. I love stop motion, but this may be taking the style in a direction I hadn't anticipated or desired.

I remain fascinated with Wipeout and the Big Balls. I've watched twice this week. I really want to run the course, but not with cameras on. This is a compilation of the Top 10 Wipeouts.

And here we have Cyndi Lauper performing with Jonny Lang on Live with Regis and Kelly, except Kelly is in Europe, so Kristin Chenoweth was there. Cyndi does "How Blue Can You Get" followed by a bluesy "Change of Heart." If you watch enough talk shows, you can preview the whole album, and decide if you want to go see Cyndi on her extensive tour, which you do.

I have to ask a few of questions about the trailer for Little Fockers: First, was this really necessary? Second: Is this classified as a Weapon of Mass Destruction under international law? Third, what's up with Barbra's hair?