Weekend Meme: Getting To Know Zach Wahls, Have a Beer With Ben Cohen, and Elmo Molests Jesse Tyler Ferguson

When I heard that Dave Franco was joining the 21 Jump Street movie, I assumed he’d play the Johnny Depp role, but evidently he’s going to be the bad guy.

Cyd Zeigler and Outsports got a glowing profile in the New York Times, highlighting the fact that the site is completely unique when it comes to covering the nexus of gay men and sports. Reading the profile, I realized how many significant moments in history I learned by reading Cyd, from Hudson Taylor to Gareth Thomas.

I already knew that smell impacted taste, but I had no idea that if you removed the coloring from Cheetos, they didn’t taste like Cheetos anymore.

In a move that shocked all of Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (the Oscars people) picked Dawn Hudson, formerly head of the Spirit Awards to run the show. Evidently a significant faction thought the Oscars were getting a bit stuffy and self referential. Ya think?

Jamie Campbell Bower seems to think a significant selling point for watching Camelot is that you get to see his bum. I’ve yet to watch, so I can’t tell you if his bum is worth the monthly subscription to Starz.

Kim Cattrall is playing an aging adult film star in Monica Velour, but she plays an aging Hollywood actress in real life, and she says that’s just not any fun.

Some people are freaking out that Jamie Brittain, the creator of Skins, has left the original series to go do something new. Frankly, if he wants to go somewhere and give us a new Maxxie, I’m all for it.

Locally, a jury acquitted a man who spit tobacco juice on Shirley Phelps-Roper when the Westboro Baptist Church were staging a protest in Charleston, WV against the 29 miners who lost their lives in the Upper Big Branch disaster. I’m not entirely sure that it was the precisely right verdict, legally, but it does feel vaguely satisfying.

Am I the only one really hoping the pilot Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23 gets picked up to series just so I can see James Van Der Beek playing James Van Der Beek every week? And am I a bad gay for thinking this is better than if it had been the original choice of Lance Bass?

P-Town is in mourning for Ellie Castillo, the legendary performer who in many ways was the soul of the town.

Deadpool now has a director, and the script is supposed to be amazing. Can we get this thing into production finally? I’m pretty sure Ryan Reynolds was born to play the Merc with the Mouth.

As the federal government prepared for a possible shutdown, there was a lot of confusion about The Antideficiency  Act of 1884, which prevents government workers from working when there’s no budget. Because what about email? And what if you answer your government issued Blackberry during a shutdown? These things have never come up before.

Cats That Look Like Hitler

It seems the trailer for Arthur had momentary boobage exposure that nobody noticed. Or did they? So, for those keeping score for green band trailers at home, fag jokes: O.K.;  boobs, O.K.; monkey attacking fake penis NOT O.K.; two men kissing in A Single Man, NOT O.K.

Maybe that’s how Russell Brand is dominating the box office, with Hop number one, and Arthur in the number two slot. Because I refuse to believe that it’s because people like Russell Brand.

Bill Donohue of the Catholic League already has his knickers in a twist over Lady Gaga’s “Judas” video. ““I find Gaga to be increasingly irrelevant. Is this the only way to jet up her performance? This isn’t random, we are getting closer to Holy Week and Easter.” Hey, Bill, speaking of increasingly irrelevant…