Morning Meme: The Foo Fighters Shower, Will Chase Brings Broadway Credibility To "Smash" and It Gets Better In Baseball

Veronica Mars hottie Jason Dohring has landed a job as a teacher on the show I don't understand why I have no interest in, Ringer.

Plus, Broadway veteran Will Chase has joined NBC's Smash, easily my most anticipated new show of the season. His character will have a history with Debra Messing's character.

In a move that's sure to confound Sarah Palin, the Russian government has approved a plan for a public/private partnership to build a tunnel from Siberia to Alaska, more than twice the length of the Chunnel. It doesn't sound like a good idea until you understand the $65 billion project could move 100 million tons of freight via rail each year.

A lot of folks are excited about the period dramas such as Pan Am this fall. But those have to score big audiences to work. The pilot for Pan Am cost $10 million alone. $7.5 million of that was development of a stewardess hat to cover Christina Ricci's forehead.

If Rep. Michele Bachman were paying attention, she'd know that most of the damage from the natural disasters in the last week were to churches and other conservative totems, while liberal NYC was largely spared. Assuming the planet has a position on the deficit.

Superman was already ditching his red briefs in the new Man of Steel movie, now it appears Clark Kent got LASIK, because he's been filmed without his trademark glasses. How many more changes until it stops being Superman, and starts being "insanely strong alien guy?"

A judge has promised a fast ruling in the case on whether to release the tapes from the Prop 8 trial to the public. He seems to be hesitating from changing the original stated legal uses for the tapes, but recognizes this is a unique case with vast public interest.

Spike TV is stopping development on scripted series for now, and will focus on reality television. No word on how that will affect the guilty pleasure of Blue Mountain State, their only current scripted series, which just wrapped filming for the season.

I don't know a ton about MODOK as a villain beyond what I've seen in a few cartoons, but the idea of using him as a villain for the Captain America sequel gets so much better if you cast Peter Dinklage in the role.

Want to see the Foo Fighters naked, showering together, and getting slightly homoerotic? Head on over and check out their video for "Hot Buns" which is obviously NSFW.

GLAAD has put together a study on Tyler, the Creator's music in the wake of his MTV VMA win. Seeing Tyler on stage twice turned my stomach, as he has some of the most homophobic lyrics in hip-hop, and claims that he doesn’t hate gay people. But his debut album has 213 variations of "faggot." Contrast that with Eminem's 13 instances on The Marshall Mathers LP, which had the gay community up in arms. The mainstream media largely seems to give Tyler a pass, and I'd love to know why.

Judy Greer has been cast in a recurring role on Two and a Half Men as the soon-to-be-ex-wife of Ashton Kutcher's character, who will also be getting dating advice from Jon Cryer's Alan this year.

ABC Family is fast tracking a new show called Maid In Miami from Glee musical director Adam Anders and Rita Rock's creators.

Paul Reubens and Chris Colfer are going to be presenters at the Creative Arts Emmys on September 10th, the day before Colfer's own big night.