Morning Meme: Previewing "Priscilla," "Tosh.0"'s Gayest Moments, and the Las Vegas Death Ray

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is doing previews in Toronto, and they recently performed three songs for the press, and talked to the sexy Will Swenson, the “incredibly butch and handsome” actor playing Tick. They also mention local favorite Nick Adams.

Good Morning America had the men of the new Fire Department New York calendar on Thursday morning, but only one took off his shirt, which seemed kind of a waste to me. Fortunately, GMA put up a slideshow of the calendar itself, which benefits families of fallen firemen. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

36 million years ago, there was a five foot tall penguin with reddish brown feathers. If they’d made Happy Feet with these penguins,nobody would have dared steal their fish.

How do you react if moments before your commitment ceremony your officiator tells you “she didn’t feel comfortable using ‘wife’ or ‘marriage’” since technically, this wasn’t a real marriage?

Thursday, the BBC released a study showing that 1 in 5 viewers were uncomfortable seeing GLBT people on their televisions, and 9% were described as“very uncomfortable.” This comes as another study shows that GLBT people are unhappy with how they’re depicted on television in the UK. But the greatest thing was this morning program called The Wright Stuff, where a presenter named Victoria Coren made a passionate case for representation.. h/t to Johnny Thunderstorm.

For something fun, you can go try Model-Morphosis. Makeup does wonders, even for pretty girls.

Jayron Martin is an openly gay 16-year-old who used to go to the same school as Asher Brown, the 15-year-old who shot himself in response to homophobic bullying. And Jayron says the school’s bullying drove him out after he begged the administration of the school for protection but was ignored. He was then chased and beaten by a mob of nine teenagers.

The number one Tupperware salesperson in the country is a drag queen. Now he’s got Danny Pintauro for competition.

New York City is spending $27 million in parts alone to replace street signs with new signs with both upper and lower case text. This is to comply with a mandate from Congress passed in 2003, under a Republican government. At least it employees city workers?

The song voted most likely to make men cry is “Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M.

The grim movie Snow White & Huntsman that Universal just bought is different from the “dark reimagining”of Snow White that Natalie Portman was linked to on Monday. Hollywood acts like a school of fish.

Just in case you were wondering why I hadn’t mentioned Tony Curtis passing, this is why.

The mirrored exterior of the Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas is an excellent solar concentrator. So good in fact, it can reflect the sun and melt plastic and catch paper on fire by the pool. And the architects knew it would happen, and treated the glass to compensate, but it didn’t work. So now they have the Las Vegas Death Ray.

Dan Byrd’s Travis may have left for college on Cougar Town this week, but he’s still getting a love interest in Collette Wolfe. I still can’t believe Travis isn’t at least bisexual. My gaydar needs tuned up.

Google Street View has come to Antarctica. See if you can spot the penguin mooning the camera.

True Blood’s sexy Allan Hyde has a number of projects in the works, but as much as he’d like to do Broadway, he doesn’t have a green card. Anyone volunteer to marry him?

Emma Thompson has signed on to Men In Black 3 as the head of MIB. No word on if she’s good, evil, or just misunderstood, but here’s hoping for another fun set of interviews when she’s promoting the film.

The Senate can’t pass a budget for the military or repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell or repeal DOMA or pass inclusive immigration reform or much of anything. But they did outlaw commercials that are louder than the television program they’re shown with. My Sony TV has handled that for years.

Are adults flirting in bars by exchanging Silly Bandz with someone they’re interested in? I’m not talking about a theme night, I’m talking about a trend.

Where did the words “geek” and “nerd” come from?

Meryl Streep will be playing Julia Roberts’ mother in August: Osage County. Should we just mail them the Academy Awards now?