Morning Meme: Christopher Dallman Croons, Cory Monteith Honors "Degrassi," and James Blunt Stopped World War III

Bad news folks. Despite earlier reports, Jane Lynch is not attached to the new Muppet movie. She says she hasn’t been asked, but would absolutely do it if they did ask.

Senator John McCain went on Meet the Press and said that he would continue to block repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, even with the study he demanded pointing to widespread apathy from the troops. He says the study asked the wrong questions, so he wants another study, more hearings, and to delay it basically until he eventually dies at some point in the future.

Dear Adam Baldwin, once straight white action stars with seven figure incomes start committing suicide faster than we can bury the last one, I will personally start an advocacy group. Until then, please don’t claim you’re being bullied by liberals. I really hope the Whedonverse agrees with me here.

Columbia, SC’s Eddie Rabon was crowned 2011 Mr. Gay in Philadelphia this weekend. Since we share a first name, I feel like I won, too.

The New York Times nonfiction bestseller list was pretty gay, with Portia de Rossi at #3, and Ricky Martin at #5.

Singer James Blunt stopped World War III.

The National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian is showing a groundbreaking exhibition called “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” all about gay themes in contemporary art. The exhibit features work from Mapplethorpe, O’Keefe, Hartley, Warhol, Rauschenberg, and more.

Megamind stopped Unstoppable at the box office, raking in $30 million to the latter’s $23 million. And no, no I couldn’t resist the pun. It was entirely necessary.

For reasons that still confuse me, the makers of Four Loko have agreed to stop shipments of their product to New York State. Washington recently banned the caffeinated alcoholic drink. Isn’t this like trying to ban people mixing vodka and Red Bull?

The new Wolverine film will be called The Wolverine. And it’s not a sequel, but a standalone film. 

It turns out that everything we know about repositioning nipples on men is wrong. It evidently comes up more frequently than one would think.

Cory Monteith is an advocate for homeless youth because he says he came so close to being homeless himself, before landing the role on Glee.

Cory also hosted the Gemini Awards in Toronto over the weekend. Degrassi was honored for thirty years of quality. Monteith joked “Degrassi has shown not one, not two but three generations of kids dealing with bullying, drugs, alcohol . . . runaways, eating disorders, racism. Am I the only one who thinks this school is cursed? The kids of Degrassi, they don’t need an education, they need an exorcist."

Be sure to vote for Pepsi to give $50,000 to the Point Foundation for scholarships for GLBT youth. So You Think You Can Dance's Adam Shankman is supporting the effort.

Some of Bernie Madoff’s stuff was auctioned off for a total of about $2 million. That goes towards reimbursing the principle in the $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

Andrew Sullivan published a letter from a Catholic mother who did a truly amazing job of raising her son in the church.