Morning Meme: Lady Gaga's Favorite Little Monster, NPH Fails To Make Forbes Top 100, and What is "Rango?"

Plus The Boondocks tackles prison rape, Cheyenne Jackson gives us a reason to get HBO, and Theo Tams hits the war zone.

The reason I have hunky Cheyenne Jackson on the main page seducing you with his, well, his everything is that we have news! Cheyenne is filming an arc on Curb Your Enthusiasm for the upcoming season.  Now how many seasons do I have to go back and watch so I can catch up?

These clips from The Everlasting Secret Family show a secret society of wealthy closeted men and their beautiful young playthings. But one plaything wants to stay young forever. I’ve never heard of the film, and it’s out of print for the United States, so this may be it for me. Which is a shame, because he’s pretty cute in those bikini briefs.

As I understand the machine translation, this is a petition to the supreme court in Mexico to keep it from invalidating the Mexico City marriage equality act. Which is a very good cause.

Forbes has released their list of the World’s Most Powerful Celebrities. I didn’t see a single gay man in their 100 person list. Lady Gaga might qualify as queer at #4. Ellen DeGeneres is #23. Ray freakin’ Romano comes in at #84, and we don’t get Neil Patrick Harris on the list? They have plenty of behind-the-scenes people, but no David Geffen?

Time put out a list of the Best Blogs of 2010, and forgot to put AfterElton.com on the list. They do find The Daily Kitten to be relevant to the greater world though.  They got one thing right – they put Pink Satan on the Overrated Blog list.

That Subway™ sandwich with the nine-grain bread? Not so healthy. It has more high-fructose corn syrup than it has whole grain.

The Boondocks took on what I thought was going to be a wonderful gay night again last night. It started with talk of same sex marriage and pride festivals, but quickly turned into 21 minutes of male-on-male prison rape jokes. Not funny.

Cougar Town is one of my favorite shows. In fact, there are times when I prefer it to Phil-heavy nights on Modern Family. They’ve now figured out it isn’t about cougars and are trying to rename it. Based on this list of possibilities they need to keep trying – The Cul de Sac Neighborhood?

There’s an interesting entry at Essence about Being Gay in the Black Church. There’s a great bit about how the belief that God can change someone’s orientation is “reinforcing the idea that though the bible preaches unconditional love and a ‘come as you are’ invitation, we as members of the Black church don't really have to uphold that part.”

Summer Glau is going to voice Supergirl in the new animated direct-to-DVD movie. The Whedonverse may now rejoice.

Are Grown Ups and Sex and the City 2 really the same movie?

Of the 10 Things That Will Look Awesome on the Back To The Future Blu-rays, Marty McFly’s shirt may be my favorite. 

The iPhone 4 Video Sex Chat services are already starting to staff up. I’m only disappointed in that it seems the straights thought of it first.

Take a moment to wrap your head around the fact that Anderson Cooper’s new environmental series is sponsored by Dow Chemical.

One benefit to the United States being out of the World Cup is this guy can go back to whatever normal is for him. I'm hoping this isn't it.

I don't wear a goatee because it's too hard to maintain, and he manages this?

Theo Tams posted on his blog he was on his way to Afghanistan to entertain the troops, which is a wonderful thing. But it did make me think: How could USO shows change with the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell? La Cage aux Folles does tours of Iraq? Amanda Lepore hits bases in South Korea? This could be fun - I had friends in the Air Force in uniform that went base to base performing the Little Mermaid, it was pretty gay already.

Still, Theo was bringing a whole new kind of heat to the desert.

I've come to accept that if Johnny Depp's name appears in the marquee of a movie, things could get weird fast. But even I'm not not quite prepared for Rango. It's described as being about a chameleon who has an identity crisis.

As long as he doesn't change his skin to match that shirt.

The only known trailer for Rango is a short 30-second teaser, which didn't seem to have anything to do with a chameleon having an identity crisis. I didn't even think it was about "real" animals. Can you reconcile the above poster with this trailer?

Another new movie trailer is for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. What strikes me about the first full-length trailer is that it's for both movies. They don't want to show where the break in the book happens. 

Lady Gaga recorded a message for Constance McMillen that was played at the All Love, All Woodstock benefit that raised money to go to Constance's college fund.