Morning Meme: Admiring Eric Balfour's Shape in "Skyline," Rehearsals of "The Golden Guys," and Pee-Wee Hits Sturgis

Plus Channing Tatum is a Contortionist, Therapy with Nick Adams, and go on an Eleventeenth Date.

In things I didn’t see coming, but actually might enjoy, Scott Bakula says that a Quantum Leap movie is being made. Bakula says he’s too old for the lead now, but he and Dean Stockwell will manage to be in it somehow.

Yesterday there was a meme that took over the internet about a girl who quit her job via a series of messages on a dry erase board culminating in how many hours/week her boss played Farmville. It was cute, and rivaled the JetBlue incident for creative resignations. Turns out she was a hoax.

There are some strange stories out there about Rand Paul, who is running for Kentucky’s Senate seat on a platform that even the Tea Party thinks is a little wacky.  It turns out he’s a college dropout, but his medical degree is real, and that’s perfectly legal. But there’s some weird stories (and photographs) from his college days that include a lot of pot pranks. And maybe a kidnapping, and worship of Aqua Buddha.

ABC is going wedding crazy on Thursdays. Private Practice is going to marry off two doctors, and Grey’s Anatomy is having a mystery wedding, even if one mystery isn’t that Calizona is almost certainly not the couple tying the knot.

Channing Tatum is attached to star in and produce a movie based on The Contortionist’s Handbook, which sounds sexier than it is. Basically, it sounds like Catch Me If You Can without the happy ending.

Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark has not only started rehearsals, it has a premiere date. Preview performances start November 14^th, 2010, with an opening December 21^st. From that point on, if it sells out every performance, it will break even sometime in 2016.

An Illinois man hellbent on “encouraging Christian unity in America” has legally changed his name to One Nation Under God. I probably needn’t remind folks that the phrase didn’t enter the American lexicon in a noticeable way until the 1950s.

Michael Goldenberg, who adapted Where the Wild Things Are for the big screen has been signed to adapt out producer Greg Berlanti’s outline for Green Lantern 2 into a script. I hope Ryan Reynolds hadn’t planned on eating a carb in the next five years.

The Boys is a hard-R, nasty comic book with a squad tasked to take out super heroes if they get out of line Adam McKay is preparing for the film, and says he’s open to shooting in 3D if the script would be helped by 3D, but he prefers to shoot on real film.

Pee-Wee Herman went to Sturgis Bike Week, and he took his classic bicycle from Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure to lead the Harley’s out on a ride. He then led the bikers in the world’s largest Tequila Dance, and was photographed with Lorenzo Lamas. And before you asked, yes I was sober when I typed that.

Van Halen is recording a new studio album with original frontman David Lee Roth. This is expected to single handedly save the spandex pants manufacturing industry.

Google Book Search says that excluding serials, there are 130 million books in the world. The world’s librarians say Google doesn’t have a clue. Considering all the sexy librarian tropes, I assume we settle this with mud wrestling?

In England, 102 people rode a roller coaster naked for charity. Some of them were even people you’d want to see naked on a roller coaster. Mildly NSFW due to women’s breasts in one picture.

MTV hired a Twitter Jockey (TJ). The world is greatly unimpressed with her knowledge, grammar, and purpose, and chooses to judge her in Internet fashion, based on her first day of work. MTV still paying her 10x what they pay me.

And the fun Warehouse 13 last night got hunky Eddie McClintock to display his impressive heaveage again. Naturally, snicks has the screencaps for you. 

After months of not hearing anything homophobic from an American professional athlete from one of the big four sports, football season is back. Todd Herremans, of the Philadelphia Eagles, tweeted "caught up on Trueblood [sic]. Not a fan of how they get you hooked w/ 2 seasons then bring on barrage of homosexuality." He deleted the tweet, gave a halfhearted apology, then went to work. The Eagles were not happy, so he issued a slightly better apology he didn't mean. And there will likely be not a further word said about it, other than me rooting against the Eagles for the rest of my life. Asshat.