Morning Meme: Nelly Furtado's Great Marriage Equality View, Andy Cohen's "A Big Gay Guy," and Chef Art Smith Meets Elmo

Good news: Ugly Betty’s Becki Newton has given birth to a healthy baby boy with her hunky husband Chris Diamantopoulos. Bad news: Her new sitcom Love Bites still doesn’t have a time slot and just had the episode order cut from 13 to 9.

We all know that the Spurf™ is launching his own TV site come January, and he’s finally revealed the name: TVLine.com. Doesn’t really roll off the tongue, does it? But best of luck to Michael, he’s really good at what he does.

Out Olympic skater Blake Skjellerup is competing in China right now, and taking the time to shop for knockoff Gucci for everyone on his Christmas list. But he does wonder if China can really become a superpower while remaining Communist.

I admit that I’m fairly neutral on the music of Nelly Furtado, but I’m loving this quote. “I'm proud to live in Canada, a country that supports gay marriage, because I can speak openly about it to my child. Children shouldn't be raised in a bubble. There's nothing wrong with it, so why wouldn't I treat it as normal?”

Remember me lamenting that SyFy had picked up Alphas, which spelled doom for the highly similar series Three Inches? It turns out SyFy wants both, if it can tweak Three Inches into more of a comedy. Now if I could just find the paper I was writing all those immature jokes about “three inches” on that I trashed yesterday.

Howard Stern has reupped for another five years on Sirius/XM. Nobody is sure what the deal is worth. His last deal was for $600 million, but Sirius this week had said he’d have to take a pay cut, to which Stern responded with something I can’t print. Now he has a new deal.

TV Guide interviewed my nemesis, Andy Cohen. I think the man has ruined the television landscape with bad competition shows and all the Real Housewives. Plus I saw him wear flip flops with a suit on Today, and that’s unforgiveable. But he was asked his dream guest for Watch What Happens Live and he said Madonna. “Look, I'm a big gay guy.” Actually, Andy, I think you’re 5’5” in lifts. Let’s be real.

David E. Kelly has confirmed he’s trying to develop Wonder Woman for television, but he says it’s too soon to discuss casting, and he doesn’t even know if he’s capable of writing it. That makes two of us.

Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2011 is honeysuckle, but their honeysuckle color is nothing like the actual honeysuckles in my yard. Since they’re the color standard, does that make nature wrong?

Michael Gross of Family Ties fame is set to star as an old flame of Saul’s boyfriend Richard Chamberlain on Brothers & Sisters. An actual gay love triangle? Why ABC, you minx!

Summit is moving into television production now that it’s cash cow Twilight is wrapping up. They intend to launch a new, modern version of The Count of Monte Cristo, told from a female point of view.

Thursday’s episode of my favorite gay-inclusive geek comic hijiNKS ENSUE warns of the dangers of searching the web for Mel Gibson’s upcoming film. Especially if you’re a gay man, you should not search for “beaver movie.”

Pete Rose says he had an opportunity to shower with Joe Dimaggio, and he got to see what Marilyn Monroe saw: “he was a penis with a man hanging from it."

My own Senator Joe Manchin was the sole Democratic vote against repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He’s always leaned right for a Democrat, but how he has the balls to vote against the last bill crafted by the late Senator Robert C. Byrd, whose seat he now holds, I have no idea. But he apologized, sort of, which is what you do when your intolerance is showing.

Facebook intends to join other tech giants like Google and pay gay employees extra to cover the unfair tax penalty on domestic partner benefits.

Murder music king Buju Banton is being allowed to put on a concert in Miami while he awaits retrial on charges of cocaine possession with intent. It’s time for a protest in Miami.

Chris Zylka has been confirmed to play Flash Thompson in the new Spider-Man movie. He’s got the perfect face for it, but I’m not convinced he has the build for it.