Morning Meme: Channing Strips, Madonna Wobbles and Jake Nodar Returns to Reality TV

Happy Post Super Bowl Monday! Curious what folks thought of Madonna's halftime performance last night. To me the old gal seemed a bit wobbly on those heels. But she might have had a good excuse: a pulled hamstring. I don't think the performance is going to win her any new converts, but probably enough to keep devoted fans satisfied. Thoughts?

More details on that pantsless arrested gay couple in Cleveland. A SWAT team stormed their home, and the guys were taken to jail in their underwear. But first, they were locked up in a police van for several hours while the cops drove around making other arrests (all other detainees were allowed to retrieve their trousers, apparently). The couple weighed around 130 pounds each, and they were arrested for having "assaulted" their neighbor a week earlier - on off-duty police office who weighed about 225. Not a surprise, but the original assault charge was dimissed. Oh Cleveland. What a charming town. (Video interview of the guys describing their ordeal here.)

Not the best week for the cruise industry. First, someone (not Ed Kennedy, thankfully!) falls off the Allure of the Seas. Now 500 passengers on two Caribbean cruise ships are struck with the norovirus and gastroinestinal distress. Such are the perils of buffet table shrimp. Will people never learn?

Russell Brand apparently wants to date Zooey Deschanel. He's been sending her "flirty texts." Of course, OK Magazine is the source, so take it with a grain of salt. I think they both could probably do better. Possibly by dating cartoon characters.

Speaking of people not currently having sex together, the asexual community is upset about a recent House episode. It was supposedly the first time a major network ever portrayed self-idenitifed asexual characters (sorry Tim Gunn and Teletubbies, apparently you don't count). Dr. House treats an asexual couple, discovers it's all just a symptom of illness, and "cures" them. (Well, cures the husband who had a pituitary gland tumor affecting his sex drive – the wife was just faking the asexuality thing to please her sexless husband.)

It's possible that Drew Barrymore's Big Miracle didn't actually save the whales. But everyone loves a happy ending, so of course no one likes to dwell on that.

An Oregon mushroom picking family was rescued after being lost in the woods for six days. Those must have been some mushrooms.

Mitt Romney won big in the Nevada caucus vote. He got 48% of the vote compared to Gingrich's 23%. I'm sad. Truthfully, I wouldn't vote for either guy, but if Gingrich is finally falling out of the race things are going to be awfully boring. Who else can offer up such absurd sound bites as, "Poor people don't need a safety net, they need a trampoline!"

Looks like some teenage boys with cell phone cameras and telekinesis beat out Daniel Radcliffe at the cineplex this weekend. Actually, both Chronicle and The Woman in Black did reasonably well, clocking 22 and 21 million in domestic box office respectively. Did you catch either film this weekend? if so please let me know what you thought in the comments. I haven't seen either yet and looking for a recommendation. And I just noticed one of the kids in Chronicle is played by Dane DeHaan, who rocked as the troubled gay kid on the last season of In Treatment.

But back to Daniel Radcliffe. He's on the cover of the latest Attitude magazine, and in the accompanying interview he talks about his atheism and his disillusionment with the British Liberal Democrats. (He'll be voting Labour for the next election). He also had some thoughts on U.S. politics. He's "disgusted, amazed, stunned" by the anti-gay positions of Republican presidential candidates such as Rick Santorum or Michele Bachmann. "But they disgusted me less than candidates like Rick Perry, who made that ridiculous advert wearing 'the Brokeback jacket', and I think pretend to be homophobic just to win votes."

GLAAD wants you to know that Roland Martin is kind of an ass - and the evidence points heavily in that direction.

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You guys remember the adorable Jake Nodar from Discovery's Out in the Wild reality series a few years back? In addition to our original interview, Jake produced a series of video blogs for us on Surviving the Wild. (His "pitching a tent" demo was particularly memorable.)

Well, Jake is returning to reality television! He'll be a contestant on The History Channel's testosterone-fueled Full Metal Jousting which premieres this Sunday. Last week we caught up with Jake for a brand new interview and awesome photo spread (with horses!) We'll be running them this coming Thursday. For now, here's a preview photo from the shoot. Jake has clearly beefed up a bit since his stint in the Alaskan wilderness!

Jake Nodar photographed by Clinton Gaughran for AfterElton