Morning Meme: "Top Chef" Meets "Bear Nation," Valerie Bertinelli Births a Jonas, and "Warehouse 13" Delivers the Beefcake.

Plus we learn How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, check in with Ryan Murphy about Glee's second season, and what's your homohms measurement?

The first promo shots of Daniel Radcliffe’s next Broadway project have emerged. He’s starring in How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying as J. Pierrepont Finch. It looks like they’re going with a traditional period piece with the production, or business casual now includes bow ties, in which case I’m in trouble.

Tom Colicchio is trading a kitchen for a parade float. The Top Chef host pretended to pout on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen about it being Pride season and he hadn’t been asked to be on a float. Never one to pass up a chance to objectify a celebrity, he got a flood of offers before settling on the bear float for next year.

We all know that I’m fundamentally against remakes, but what if Betty White is in a remake? It’s currently against the law in this country to not support Betty White. Plus I can see her taking on the George Burns role in Oh, God fairly easily, and how many people’s heads will explode if God is a woman?

Yesterday we brought news that the Pentagon spokesman was tone deaf on the offensive nature of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell survey, and was talking segregation for gay troops. Now Geoff Morrell says the segregation comments were taken out of context, but he still wants to know why we’re being so sensitive.

The Bowling Proprietors Association of America has released their list of celebrity nominees to the Hall of Fame (more prestigious than an Oscar), and of gay interest is local favorite and ally Pauley Perrette, whose goth character Abby on NCIS regularly bowls with nuns.

ABC just renewed summer series Rookie Blue. I’ve actually been enjoying the show, and rumor has it that ABC is getting it dirt cheap. While it doesn’t have any regular gay characters, it has hit GLBT topics in the first three episodes, and I still think that the violence obsessed cop played by Gregory Smith (Everwood) pings hard.

For a minute, I thought Hot In Cleveland is going the cougar route with Valerie Bertenelli, but they’ve just cast Joe Jonas as her son, not another love interest. Twitter also has Ugly Betty’s Mark Indelicato guesting in episode eight.

I’m not sure what scale of measurement “homohms” is for measuring gayness, but as long as you fall on the bell curve, webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal thinks we’re fine.

If you’re like me, you’d been wondering how Queerty had signed a deal to syndicate content from U.K.’s Guardian newspaper. It turns out that it’s part of a new program for any Wordpress blog. You can syndicate any Guardian article for free, as long as you maintain the format and the embedded advertising. In the days of paywalls, it’s great seeing the Guardian doing something so forward thinking.

Zac Efron is going to voice Anakin Skywalker in the Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III. I always knew that High School Musical was evil, but I didn’t know it was part of the actual Dark Side.

Sure Doctor Who is full of ridiculous plot points and the Doctor seems to get magical powers based on the situation, but was the plot any less plausible than World War II?

I admit it – I never watched The Wire. So when I read that someone from The Wire had been cast in the HBO fantasy epic Game of Thrones, I didn’t see the gay connection. But fans know that Aiden Gillen was also the lead in the original Queer As Folk.

Derrick Martin, the Georgia teen kicked out of his home when the press found out he was taking his boyfriend to prom, has founded Project Life Vest to help at-risk GLBT youth.

The American remake of Shameless starring William H. Macy has a premiere date of January 9, which is way too far in the future for me to plan my television viewing habits.

This very NSFW photo essay takes you inside a sex doll factory. It’s oddly fascinating to see them in pieces and partially assembled.

A group of 111 naked people jumped into a California pool and snapped a picture to try and break the world skinny dipping record. Obviously the Guinness people have never been to Hippie Hollow outside Austin.

The Swiss have decided not to extradite Roman Polanski to the United States to face his 1977 statutory rape charge. He’s free unless he enters a jurisdiction that’s more cooperative.

A Naked Man Hospitalized After Drinking Game Leads To Prosthetic Leg Being Set Aflame.

If you ever owned an iPhone, you’re now suing Apple and AT&T as part of a class action suit concerning the exclusivity agreement. With any luck you may end up with a bill credit of $0.12 sometime in the next ten years.

The Y.M.C.A. is now officially just “the Y” – unless you’re talking about your local facility, then it’s still the “Beckley Y.M.C.A.” But if you’re talking about the national organization it’s just “the Y.” Don’t mix it up!

Every year around 10,000 Californians get together to moon Amtrak. Which is 9,998 more Californians than ride Amtrak.

Timm Sharp has replaced Mos Def in the upcoming Mike White HBO comedy Enlightened. That’s not a pair of actors I had considered to be interchangeable, but I’m just glad to see Mike’s project move forward.

According to Time Warner On Demand, for a movie to appear in their “Black Cinema” category, the film must star Denzel Washington. No word on whether it’s an official policy, or just a coincidence.

Ryan Murphy previewed plots for the second season of Glee, and everybody gets some love, from Finn and Rachel, to Terri, to Brittany and Santana. Missing from the interview was any mention of Kurt, but I’m guessing that was a function of the interview, not the show.