Info Meme

PETA loves homosexuals. Well, at least two of us. Looking at my diet the last 24 hours, they’re likely not fond of me. But they love Ellen DeGeneres and Tim Gunn, who have been named PETA’s Woman and Man of the Year. Ellen’s been pushing vegetarianism on her show, and has a vegetarian pet food company, while Tim Gunn has done a lot of anti-fur work.

As a second nod to our lesbian readers, People got a statement from Rosie O’Donnell’s rep confirming she had a new girlfriend. Rosie is dating Tracy Kachtick-Anders, a Texas based artist.

If you have Time-Warner Cable, Fox has a message for you: Pay up. Time-Warner blinked and tried to enter arbitration to resolve their contract dispute, but Fox said no thanks, meaning it’s likely Fox, FX, and a bunch of sports will vanish from Time-Warner cable tonight at midnight. Buh-bye Glee, American Idol, House, Bones, The Simpsons, etc.

This excerpt of the New York Review of Books piece on Sarah Palin’s book is probably all you need, but the whole thing is pretty funny if you have the time. They paint Alaskans in a light that makes me proud to be from West Virginia.

If you heard me yawn earlier, it was just me reading the announcement from NBC for the first two hosts of Saturday Night Live for 2010. Comedic geniuses and socially relevant Charles Barkley and Sigourney Weaver will be the first to step onto the stage at 30 Rock.

The Advocate has a list of the Best Queer Theater of 2009. I confess to having seen, well, none of it (see earlier blurb about West Virginia), but I’m sure something in there was good. If nothing else, the article has pictures of cute guys kissing. 

Brandon Bird was the artist-in-residence at Cornell’s arts dorm, and for a project, he had the students write letters to Christopher Walken. They range from the cute to the deranged, and I can’t help but think Mr. Walken would have more fun with the deranged one.

There’s a list of the Top Ten Worst Muppets, and well, you know that has got me angry. I love the Muppets, and hearing anyone badmouth those lovable balls of felt and joy steams me. Except for Robin. Robin sucks. And Entertainment Weekly agrees with me. Besides, we know that Janice was modeled on our beloved Roxy from One Life To Live, and calling her out may set Jef off on a rampage.

Michael Musto, the often caustic Village Voice reporter (but he may have earned that right), has done his annual Year (and Decade) in Review, including him dressed up as Lady GaGa, Carrie Prejean, Michael Jackson, and more.

A more interesting list comes from AOL, of all places, and they have the TVs Top Shirtless Guy Moments of 2009, complete with video in many cases. I never watched Sons of Anarchy, but I suddenly feel like I missed out on something great.

OK, so a fabulous resort for the wealthy and fabulous in Australia held a contest last year for the World’s Best Job – live at the resort for 6 months as a guest and blog about how much fun it is. Heck, I applied. Well, the winner nearly died from a highly toxic jellyfish sting. Suddenly the rickets I have from the lack of sunlight a blogger gets don’t seem so bad.

The Chicago run of The Addams Family, starring out Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, is getting a creative infusion before it comes to Broadway following mediocre reviews. Jeffery Zaks has taken a leave from All About Me to clean up the script and the production before it opens in New York City.

For all you grammar Nazis out there (we love ya!), we have a chart of the Top Ten Words You Need To Stop Misspelling. A bunch of them are simply homonyms, and I admit to needing to sound them out occasionally. Don’t judge though; you guys are getting exactly what you pay for.

Hate music purveyor Buju Banton isn’t taking any chances with his federal charges on drugs in Florida. His record label (which he founded) has hired a superstar Harvard lawyer to make sure he can keep earning money by advocating killing and burning homosexuals.

The Bilerico Project has a nice Top Ten LGBT Stories of 2009, and it’s an interesting mix of politics (Hate Crimes Act) and pop culture (Adam Lambert). It’s certainly a mixed bag of pain and success, but that’s life I guess, and they do a great job of keeping our interests front-and-center.

Speaking of politics, it may have happened in Israel, but still, it illustrates the general sanctity of marriage feeling. An Israeli man has just gotten his 11^th divorce, and has no intention of making it his last. He just gets tired of women after a couple years he says.

I thought this story was a joke, but the head of Russia’s space agency wants to send a space craft to divert a large asteroid that will get close to the earth in 2029. Not hit us, just get close. Except he seems to think it’s 2032. I don’t know, maybe he’s been watching Bruce Willis movies. It’s a fairly hysterical read in the New York Times, who evidently didn’t know what tone to take with the whole mess.

Maybe Tom Ford has a risk taking personality? Because he rolled the dice when decided to make a movie instead of design a fashion line, and now Variety reports that he hired a young, 27-year-old cinematographer on his first meeting. Together they used a discontinued film stock and post-production techniques to give the film its unique look.

Photo Meme

We mentioned last week that the charming folks at the Westboro Baptist Church planned to protest Lady GaGa's concert in Philadelphia this week. They've got their signs made, and they didn't bother with creativity.

And yet I feel she channeled GaGa a little in the picture.

I'm utterly fascinated by smart advertising, and I had to look twice at this to get it. It's an ad for a martial arts school. Kind of brilliant.

Or maybe it's an ad for Kool-Aid? Oh, Yeah!

And here's the final Sears Portrait Studio print of Scott Evans and Brett Claywell, but as a bonus, in Video Meme, we actually have the behind-the-scenes footage of the photoshoot, and we find out what Scott Evans' favorite piece of clothing is (somebody get the smelling salts for Jef). 

It looks like they dealt with the height difference.

Deadspin had this picture yesterday. They didn't explain it. I'm not entirely sure words can explain it.

Maybe we should have a caption contest?

Jamie Bell, of Billy Elliot fame, is all grown up and hot. And dirty. And hot. And a slave boy in the upcoming film Eagle of the Ninth with Channing Tatum. Towleroad has a bunch of pictures of Channing in leather.

To say this could be parodied by the adult industry is an understatement.

I love a sexy straight guy with a sense of humor about his sexuality. Glee's Mark Salling fits the bill in every way. Check out this random Twitter exchange a reader sent to us.

Video Meme

In movie trailers, we actually have a new trailer for the extremely heavily promoted Youth In Revolt starring Michael Cera. In theory, I think this is the genesis of his supplementary persona. I find the concept interesting, because it implies that at least one persona in this movie will involve him acting, instead of just being his awkward self.

We've got the second trailer for Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon, and I've got to say, this just looks awful. Like at least as bad as a Will Ferrell movie. It's  just so sad nobody can do animation besides Pixar.

CollegeHumor gives us something that is probably supposed to function as a funny animation/safe sex PSA/Trojan condom commercial, with a New Year's theme. It could be better, it could be worse.

This How To Drink Like a Man is just terrible. It's not a parody - it's part of a How-to series. And while I occasionally groan at the brightly colored drinks I see in some gay bars just waiting to be spilled on my clothes and stain, what somebody else drinks isn't hurting my ability to get a martini or a single malt scotch. This is just rude.

And yes, i did remember to Flip Cam with Scott and Brett from their photo shoot. Brett is charming, and Scott is goofily lovable, but I'm not going to believe his favorite piece of clothing until he shows me. Pics, or it didn't happen! 

Finally, I can't embed this, and for that matter, I haven't even viewed it, but I'm told this EastEnders preview clip is smoking hot. It's geoblocked outside the UK, but it only seems fair since we have to use a lot of geoblocked stuff here.