Morning Meme: Lucasfilm Converting "Star Wars" To 3D, Moriarty Has Been Found, and Matthew Mitcham Fills Out a Pair of Jeans

The Gareth David Lloyd edition of the Torchwood comic is out in the United States today. While it’s nice to see our coffee boy, I hesitate to mention him around these parts.

Seth Walsh, the 13-year-old Tehachapi, CA boy who attempted suicide by hanging himself due to anti-gay bullying has passed away after ten days on life support. My thoughts are with his family, and the family of Asher Brown. I just can’t take another dead kid. Make it stop.

Lucasfilm is planning to announce the re-release of all six Star Wars films in 3D, beginning with The Phantom Menace in 2012. ILM will be handling the conversion, which they swear won’t suck. I’m actually fine with Lucas screwing around with the three films he just did, they mean nothing to me. But for A New Hope on, he needs to stop destroying my childhood.

Brothers & Sisters has cast Brazilian beauty Sonia Braga to play Luc’s mother in their Thanksgiving episode. I guess any accented English is good enough for them.

Over the weekend I relayed a report from the Sunday Times that the United Nations planned to appoint an alien ambassador in case we get visitors from another planet. It turns out that when you get a non-Rupert Murdoch newspaper to fact check, it’s sadly not true.

Utah police are investigating the stars of TLC’s Sister Wives for felony bigamy charges. Oh, really?

The director of Tron: Legacy talked about the late re-shoots the film had that had fans worried. Most of them came out of conversations with the Pixar staff, and related to the beginning of the film, before the virtual world. “Most of the shooting was done to set up Sam a little bit better and to give him a little more context. A couple scenes were done to bring to the surface some of the themes of the movie and to show the relationship of Sam and his father a little more clearly.” Heart is what Pixar does best, so I’ll call it a good thing.

It turns out that atheists and agnostics know more about religious facts and teaching than Catholics or evangelicals.

I’ve ridden the world’s longest escalator in Hong Kong, but I’ve never seen a bendy escalator. I’d never really considered why they didn’t have curves, or that it was an engineering problem. Well, problem solved!

Squiggy’s Pizza in Ft. Lauderdale filmed an adult film in the restaurant while customer sat in the dining room eating. Sadly, it was a straight film. Link mildly NSFW. Very mildly.

Larry Kramer’s A History of Gay America will be published in the spring of 2012. The 4,000 page work has been in development for 30 years.

Jared Harris, probably best known for a role on Mad Men, has been cast as Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes 2.

If you need a snack, can I recommend some Jelly Belly jelly beans? Because they don’t want NOM’s latest hate tour stopping at their campus. Side note: That statue in front of their headquarters is … unique.

Equality supporter Jason Mraz has a new CD next week, and you can listen to “Freedom Song” at his website.

Lone Star is the first casualty of the fall season, canceled after two episodes failed to hold a fraction of House’s audience. Fortunately, they didn’t have a gay character, so we haven’t lost anything yet.

The most depressing thing about this list of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees is that now Bon Jovi and Beastie Boys are eligible, meaning that the soundtrack of my youth is now officially eligible to be played on the oldies station.

The web series Then we got HELP starring local favorite Nicholas Rodriguez is running a kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a new season. h/t Crawfish Po Boy

Trent Reznor, HBO, and BBC Worldwide are still in production for their Year Zero science fiction miniseries that began life as Reznor’s music and Alternate Reality Game.

Sharktopus drew better ratings than Mad Men and Dexter this weekend. I can’t help but feel snicks and I are partially responsible for that.