I think 30 Rock just went from dedicated fanbase to a part of the 21st century zeitgeist… Liz Lemon just got parodied on Sesame Street:

(via AfterEllen)

The trailer for the Cupid remake has hit the webs. It looks good:

Eventually, though, the trailer kills the buzz I had going over the gender-neutral talk of couples. Interestingly, it’s the gay actress who gets the “man and woman” line…

but this Mortal Komabt vs the DCU is looking kinda awesome to me. I know that some people find the game’s fatalities lame but I am thrilled to see that Sonya’s “kiss of death” is back. Then again, for me, what I liked about the fatalties in the MK franchise never was the gore and violence of it but that it added to the oddness of a game that had Sonya’s scissor kick, Johnny Cage’s crotch punch or the game’s mythology.

Now if one of Captain Marvel’s special moves turns out to be yelling “Shazam!” and hitting his opponents with lightning, the only thing left to make this game super-awesome would be the return of the “Friendship” moves.

Then again, this is from someone who still hasn’t found time to grab a copy of NiGHTS or Cooking Mama so far… and I do wish Sonya looked more like a military woman instead of a Maxim magazine idea of what a military woman should look like.

So apparently, Warner Bros has a movie in development currently titled “Control-Alt-Delete” which is described as “Bill and Ted meet The Matrix“.

Am I the only one who feels like he’s already gotten as close as he’d like to get to such a concept?

So, apparently, Mike Huckabee said that the difference between LGBT rights today and the civil rights movement is:

But here is the difference. Bull Connor was hosing people down in the streets of Alabama. John Lewis got his skull cracked on the Selma bridge.

So, LGBT people haven’t had enough violence done against them to get equal rights? Maybe he’s saying violence needs to be inflicted on protestors for the violence to be legitimized?

Think Progress does a better job making the argument:

To suggest that a civil rights movement must meet some sort of violence threshold is an incredibly dangerous argument — not to mention blind to the serious violence gay people have already suffered. 16.6 percent of all hate crimes reported by the FBI in 2007 “resulted from sexual-orientation bias,” and the number of hate crimes directed against gays and lesbians increased six percent from 2006. More striking, a 2007 study by the University of California, Davis, found that “[n]early four in 10 gay men and about one in eight lesbians and bisexuals in the United States have been the target of violence or a property crime because of their sexual orientation.”

The murders of Matthew Shepherd in 1998 and 15-year-old Lawrence King earlier this year brought renewed public focus to the lethal danger of homophobia. The violence gay activists face will gain more attention in two weeks, when “Milk,” a new feature-length movie about the first openly gay elected official, is released. Harvey Milk struggled for the political rights of gay people — just like civil rights leaders pushed for African-Americans’ political rights — and he was ultimately killed for it.

In the end, my feelings towards Beauty and the Geek were pretty mixed. The first season was solid, but later seasons offered an awkward mix of trying to step up the drama along with half-harted twists that didn’t work because the producers were clearly not going to deviate from their formula too far. When the series was eventually canceled, I found myself not really minding, though I might have been interested if they actually let the season’s twist actually change the dynamic of the season.

But, this isn’t something that would get me back. Reportedly, MTV wants to revive the series, but with the “beauties” consisting of “semi-famous” women like former Real World contestants.

Yeah, I see that working out well. I still think if any cable network should pick it up, it should be Logo giving the series a gay twist.

Okay, I’ll admit, I’m no stranger to getting angry at how voters can seem to be pretty poorly informed. In 2004, I was frustrated by surveys that said that Bush supporters were far more likely to answer questions about his policy positions wrong. However, I find the idea of a site claiming that Obama won due to ignorant voters hilarious.

Unsurprisingly, at the core of the complaint is a survey that says voters didn’t accept the Republican talking points. For example:

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket

No, that was how some pundits interpreted the quote. People who actually looked at what he said interpreted it differently.

And then there’s the anger that

86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Yeah, the outrage. Because what Palin actually said:

They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

Has a totally different meaning. Kinda like how Katie Couric filled her interview with tough “gotcha” questions like “What newspapers do you read?” (And if you’re perusing a faux-folksy image, how the @#$% are you not prepared to turn that question into a tribute to small town newspapers, how you still read the Wasilla Daily Journal because you want to keep in touch with your roots?)

Actually, what I find really funny, here is that surveys conducted late in the campaign showed that people were hearing these narratives but weren’t believing them. That horse is dead, put down that horsewhip.

Ooooh, and even better, the guy behind the survey is doing his best BillO impression.

Any chance we can work in a conspiracy theory about Obama nefariously getting Star Trek’s Jeri Ryan to put those sex club stories in her divorce papers so that her husband would have to drop out of his race against Obama? We could spend the next four years talking about that sex scandal.

Between getting Sara Rue to guest star tonight and getting kind words out of David Welsh, you’ve convinced me that I can wait two hours for my Rachel Maddow fix tonight.

(And in case you’re wondering, that does mean I’ve given up on recording How I Met Your Mother this year. I’ve been trying to keep up on CBS’ website, but they haven’t been uploading every episode.)

I’ve long been a big fan of Wanda Sykes — sadly, I didn’t discover how much I enjoyed her comedy until after her sitcom, Wanda At Large was canceled — but she’s been a favorite in my household and now she’s totally out. She managed to make some powerful words speaking at a Proposition 8 protest this weekend. All I can say its good to have her officially on team rainbow.

Now, if only I could remember who my previous favorite lesbian comedian was…

I could go on about why I feel the need to post this Colbert Report clip, but I think anyone who pays enough attention to the news will make the connection: