Friendly Fires

Hey, it's Friday! And our pal Colin from NewNowNext is back to tip us off to what's hot in popular music.

Video of the Week: "Jump In The Pool" by Friendly Fires
The fresh-on-the-scene U.K. group - yes, another one - hosts some lovely underwater acrobatics for its self-titled debut … and the boys eventually join in. We know you want to…

Fall Out Boy “I Don’t Care” Video
The first Folie a Deux video from FOB is genuinely hilarious … but a few terrifying celebrities have cameos. Be warned!

The dashing Mr. Sparro

Sam Sparro Video “Black & Gold”
The out, Australian singer and Attitude cover boy is getting more stateside attention – check his video from his self-titled debut CD.

Lots more after the break!

David Sedaris

In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

• Hey David Sedaris fans! Logo's OutFirst Authors series is offering a free download of David reading the short story "Solution to Saturday's Puzzle" from his latest book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames.

• Nonpartisan Hollywood lobby Creative Coalition will be taking Neil Patrick Harris to the Republican convention (hopefully in-character as Barney?), while Rufus Wainwright and Cyndi Lauper will perform for the Democrats.

• And speaking of NPH, Comedy Central's Indecision '08 asks which Neil Patrick Harris character would make the best running-mate for Obama. (Hint: It's not the Emcee from Cabaret.)

Margaret Cho vamps it up at the premiere of The Cho Show

• Arjan Writes interviews rising gay pop star Sam Sparro.

• And don't ask me to explain why you want to watch this clip of Tori Spelling's husband Dean McDermott demonstrating their new high-tech toilet to their housewarming party guests. You just do.

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Sean Hayes (Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)

In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

• Anyone else curious what this in-development television project that Sean Hayes is cooking up might be all about? This New York Times interview will only say that it's called Bi-Coastal and that it involves "a guy with a wife and kids in California and a boyfriend in New York."

• The home of gay Boyzoner Stephen Gately was burgled, and some expensive jewelry with sentimental attachments stolen.

• Good news: In Hogan reality spinoff Brooke Knows Best, Hulk's daughter has a gay roommate and the Hulk's totally cool with that. Bad news: the implication that Brooke knows anything, let alone "Best".

• We can believe it's Boy Butter: Last Monday, Bravo aired what is being called the first ever national television commercial for an anal lubricant, and I missed it. Damn you, TiVO! (Technically, Boy Butter has advertised on television before ... and to equally creepy results, but only in local markets.)

• The trailer for the sure-to-be-controversial documentary Religulous (in which Bill Maher travels the world trying to get to the bottom of religious absurdities) is up, and in it Maher talks to a couple of gay Muslims. This is gonna get interesting.

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