Weekend Meme: Paula Deen Badmouthed, Ryan Rottman Is Straight But Not Narrow, and "The A-List: Dallas" Saddles Up

Christopher Mintz-Plasse talks about spending hours in a pool with Colin Farrell, as well as how that incredibly filthy, homoerotic FunnyOrDie.com video with Dave Franco came about. "I’ve known Davey for a while now, but doing this film we were in Albuquerque for a month, so we really hit it off and got close out there. My improv team in high school, we would play 'You’re So Hot' and just try to say the most homoerotic sexual things to try to make each other laugh. Davey and I had this weird kind of homoerotic chemistry with each other, so I showed him the game. He was like, 'We have to film that! We need to film that!' So we made it a short."

Do you live in a slutty city? It turns out I don't right now, but I've lived in more than one of the Top Ten. If I'd had this list to choose from, I probably would have tried living in them all.

An Illinois judge has ruled that the state is perfectly within legal bounds to cancel contracts with Catholic adoption agencies if they won't place children with same-sex couples as the law requires. Or they can start placing the children with church funds instead of public funds and keep discriminating, but they can't have tax dollars to spread hate.

Brett Berk brings us news that if car manufacturers want to have a new vehicle succeed, it better appeal to gay buyers. I just feel lucky that several brands I'm shopping for make the "cool" list, because I'd like to be cool again.

There seem to be mixed messages coming from advertisers on ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars. After news that consumer goods giant General Mills had dropped the show for lesbian content (but not underage sex with an adult), AfterEllen.com got a statement from the company claiming the drop was unrelated, despite evidence to the contrary. And now GM and ReMAX have pulled their ads from the show, with the anti-gay Florida Family Association claiming credit.

I stuck a bunch of pictures of male gymnasts on our Facebook page. If you're into that sort of thing.

Pixar announced two new films at the giant D23 fan event this weekend. The first will  be an epic film inside the human brain, whatever that means. And the second explores a world in which the dinosaurs never went extinct and live alongside humans. Much like the Creationism theme park.

I for one, do not welcome our new cybercat overlords.

MGM is trying to reboot Wargames. Can you imagine precisely what that would look like in 2011, with technology everywhere, an actual Cyber Command in the military, and hacking NORAD landing you in Guantanamo with no hope of a trial?

Baby Lily isn't the only victim of SORAS ("Soap Opera Rapid Agin Syndrome") this season. Baby Stan on Cougar Town is also being recast as a precocious four-year-old. Presumably so he can carry wine to the rest of the cast for refills.

Lindsay Lohan is suing Pitbull for the line in his "Give Me Everything" song that mentions her "Hustlers move aside, so I’m tiptoein’, keep flown’ / I got it locked up like Lindsay Lohan.” Lohan says the lyrics are "destined to do irreparable harm to [her].” Then maybe she should stop ending up in court?

These posts about a six-year-old boy's crush on Blaine from Glee are adorable. But the mother is probably right to question whether the benefits of writing about it outweigh the publicity, both good and bad, she's received.

Our long national nightmare is over: Burger King is retiring their creepy King mascot. They're also introducing healthier foods and a mom-driven ad campaign.

Paula Deen says she's shocked that Anthony Bourdain said such horrible things about her and her food, since she's never cooked for the man. Bourdain said Deen was "most dangerous person to America" and that her food "sucks." While Bourdain may find some support among cardiologists, most of America loves Deen.

Pittsburgh photographer Jennifer McKendrick stumbled across a Facebook page some high school students had put up specifically to bully and mock other students, specifically about sexuality. She then realized some of the kids behind the page had appointments in her studio for senior pictures. So she sent their parents a note saying that they weren't welcome in her studio and returning their deposits, and why.  "I don't want to photograph them, I don't want them to be a part of my business image and I don't want them on my blog."

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