Stuff happens, when you're either sleeping or or living the fabulous and fashionable life we know you have. So we're starting your days with a few tidbits to keep you the sparkling conversationalist your friends expect you to be.

According to TheTorchOnline.com, that kid who runs around naked onstage wasn't the hero of the Harry Potter books, it was actually the old dead gay dude. While it's an impressive argument, I think he should fear for his life, because child fans are a vicious bunch. 

Jensen Ackles of Supernatural fame is engaged. To a red head. It's a woman. sniff - hold on, I can finish this post, I'm OK. It's just I always felt he, Misha Collins, me, and a hot tub were destined to ride out the rapture in a hot tub in Key West.

Photographer Jeff Sheng is starting a new project related to Don't Ask, Don't Tell using real soldiers to portray the proud anonymity of soliders serving the country in silence. This is a follow on to his "Fearless" project documenting out athletes in high school and college over the last six years.

In the latest piece of my childhood to fall to a Hollywood "reimagining" we have Yogi Bear, which is going to get the live action/CGI treatment. Dan Aykroyd will voice Yogi, Justin Timberlake Boo-Boo, and Anna Faris is going to do something that I can't begin to care about. Would someone, somewhere, please have an original idea?

Speaking of a lack of original ideas in Hollywood, out director Roland Emmerich has said that the election of President Obama has inspired him to make a sequel to Independence Day. Again, from the man who says he destroys the world so he never has to make a sequel.

Anti-gay Peter Labarbera of The Liberty Counsel has called the FBI over one rude commenter on the Joe.My.God blog. Dan Savage has a brilliantly worded rebuttal to the absolutely ridiculous fears Mr. Labarbera is wasting tax dollars on. Hey, Pete - when we refer to the "Gay Mafia" we're joking. Sort of.

I would like to make a personal appeal for everyone to do some shopping at The Gap/Banana Republic/Old Navy, as they're undergoing a two-month boycott by the fundies over their decision to not make the holidays entirely about Christmas in their advertising. Personally, I don't see why signs can't mention Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Solstice in December, but since it's the American Family Association behind this, and they boycott any corporation even remotely gay supportive, from Pepsi to As The World Turns, I'm siding with inclusive "holiday" sales.

You've really got to pop over and check out #hashtag funnies, which is a series of web comics based around a trending hashtag on Twitter every morning. They're incredibly homo-friendly, and great morning laugh.

Remember South African runner Caster Semenya? Well, it seems that the Olympics committee has fired the president of Athletics South Africa, the entire board, and portions of the staff for concealing information from them and from Caster herself.

Filed under "that's a new one for me" it seems that the latest opponent to health care reform in the United States is, um, fat people. I was going to find a nicer way to say that, but the title of this article is "Fat Pride Community Pushes Back in Health Care Debate" and I was afraid of offending someone by trying to not be offensive. The gist is there might be rules to make health care more expensive for heavier people. How this is different from making it more expensive for smokers, which everyone supports, I don't know.

Good news, supervillains! Permits have been approved for Britain's first underground luxury residence. Built 50 feet underground, away from prying eyes, it's accessed by a single door in a shed-like building. Inside, the three-bedroom mansion sports swimming pools, slides, atriums, and a theater. The pictures in the article are spectacular. Piranha, shark tank, death rays are extra beyond the $3.3M asking price.

JustJared has an interview with Alexander Skarsgard, who, among other things, plays Eric Northman in True Blood on HBO. He also appears in that capacity in the erotic dreams of Lafayette, and a certain AfterElton.com entertainment blogger. 

Proving nothing but police procedurals can be on network television, ABC made some programming moves Monday night: They ordered more episodes of the forgotten, declined more Eastwick, and canceled the new Kathy Griffin-hosted Let's Dance before production even began. As they'd already killed the nearly-always shirtless Matt Dallas already on Eastwick, the dance show is the only real loss, and only then because of Kathy. 

The most expensive musical in the history of Broadway has a new producer, and a star. Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, with music by U2, has landed music vet Michael Cohl to run the show, and rocker/actor/sexy man Reeve Carney has been cast as Peter Parker versus Alan Cumming's Green Goblin.

Most days, if you're U.S. based, you probably spend some time reading Pam's House Blend, The Bilerico Project, Towleroad, and Joe.My.God as these people blog for our rights.Last night in NYC all were honored by the Anti-Violence Project for their work, and Pam's already got video up. Tony Kushner, B.D. Wong, and Michaelangelo Signorile delivered the awards. Thanks for all your work guys.

Video Meme

We've got a selection of video that didn't seem to fit anywhere else, but we felt your lives would be better for having seen.   

Because I'm tired of unhappy election news, I'm going to open with this Saturday Night Live skit of the Fox News coverage from election night. It's spot on, really. I wish it was parody.

It's already shown up everywhere, but I'm forever astounded by this incredibly mean soccer player, and the oblivious referee that failed to throw her out of the game, the league, the college, and the country.

Tilt shift photography is something I love - making real life things look like toys is fun, and anybody can do it with the right photograph and Photoshop. But doing it with video from cities around the world is really something. Which makes it a double shame that HP pulled the video from the internet. Please enjoy this piece of the Sydney Harbor instead, truly one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. Still, everything looks like a toy, which is how life should be.