Weekend Meme: "Modern Family" Says It Gets Better plus Cassidy Haley's Salute To America

You don’t know how happy I am that they’ve scrapped plans to convert Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 to 3D in post production. They say it’s because they didn’t have time to do it right, but I’ve never seen a post production conversion that looked right, so they may have realized it was an unreasonable goal. Also, it saves me $4 on the matinee ticket.

There’s no word on whether this rare pink hippo is hungry-hungry, nor the whereabouts of his yellow, green and orange friends.

There’s a new blog dedicated to putting up screen shots of all the hot guys on Judge Judy. I never realized how many hot guys went before Judge Judy.

David Mamet is going to direct Al Pacino in a movie about Phil Spector and his murder trial. Those are three things I’m not sure go great together.

Gawker has started an investigation into just what Jon Hamm is hiding beneath those perfectly tailored suits, both on Mad Men and the red carpet. He does seem to be bulging out everywhere he goes. I also heard there’s a new drinking game based on his, um, gift’s appearance.

Would playing GOP mastermind Karl Rove finally give Shia LaBeouf the credibility to make us all forget Even Stevens?

Rutger’s  Daily Targum is upset that people got upset with their editorial saying that gay groups were exploiting the suicide of Tyler Clementi. While I’ll agree wholeheartedly that some of the nasty comments are counterproductive, one thing I’ve learned as a blogger is that the internet is not always a mature place, and if you publish something as insensitive as their editorial, you’ve got to expect a nasty response.

Regarding your cosplay at New York Comic Con, you might want to choose better than The Hulk.

The blood bank employee that accidentally showed gay adult images to high school students from his personal flash drive will not be criminally charged. But a lawyer still intends to sue the blood bank for distress, because you know how much spare cash charities have lying around not going to a good cause.

Kristen Chenoweth, who was adopted herself, can easily see herself adopting a child at some point in the future. This article also notes she recently paid to have 14 foster children see her show Promises, Promises. She couldn’t get comp seats?

Seven men have been arrested and two more are sought in New York  in what has to be one of the most disturbing hate crimes I’ve heard of in a very long time. Warning: Graphic descriptions.

Fox and Walden Media have licensed the Family Circus comic to become the most boring family-friendly movie franchise in history.  I’ll only watch if Not Me gets the lead.

The Neiman-Marcus Christmas Book features a $15,000 life size edible gingerbread house. Obese children and diabetes treatments not included.

The Los Angeles Times has a depressing, detailed exposé on Seth Walsh’s life before he committed suicide titled Gay teen endured a daily gantlet. In a missing-the-point moment, the newspaper has to fend off mistaken grammarians who hijacked the comments to argue gantlet vs. gauntlet.

But maybe those commenters could go to work for Benjamin Moore as advertising copy editors.

Sir Elton John says he’s due to record soon with Glee’s Matthew Morrison for Morrison’s solo album. It was unclear whether he’d be producing, playing, or singing with Morrison.

Do the intensely conservative political actions of Justice Clarence Thomas cast doubt on his ability to continue to serve on the Supreme Court?

Vegan Ellen DeGeneres is the spokesman for the Adopt-A-Turkey project, which aims to provide meat free alternatives to Thanksgiving dinner. Sorry, but for me, on Thanksgiving, the bird is the word.

Voting is open for the 2010 BroadwayWorld UK Awards, and several gay and gay favorites are up, including Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which has nine nominations.

Just how bold does the FBI have to be to ask a college student to return their expensive spy device when he discovers it in his car?

The early dinosaurs were the size of house cats. Maybe that’s where modern day cats get their cunning from — velociraptors.

Funny man Chris Hardwick finally realized a dream of his when he had his photo taken with George Takei. But the background is sorely lacking so Hardwick is having a Photoshop contest to make the setting for the picture match up with his epic mental image of the moment. I, on the other hand, have several pictures of Hardwick I'd rather Photoshop.