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Again, please don't change your URL bookmarks and stuff like that. I'm still waiting for Webmistress to point stuff in the right direction....

• Auto-tuned vocals
• Sarah Palin
• Put your fucking iPhone away
• Mold
• Heterosexuals with litters over a half-dozen
• Carpetbaggers
• Magic underpants (2nd year in a row!)
• Lady GaGa parodies
• Farmville gift notifications
• Jaded gays at Kylie Minogue concerts

I'll have to admit, Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus has been given a reprieve due to 'Party in the U.S.A.' and has been lifted from the 2009 banned list.

But I am happy about:

• Glee
• Yet more 'staches
• The prospect of gay marriage in DC
• A raise
• Not living in a basement
• Personal debt down to levels I will soon pay off
• Sam Worthington and his woofy neck scruff

GOOD MORNING - my view from the 3rd floor bedroom at 6:30am:

This gingko tree is gonna drop stinko berries on our sidewalk:

Note the absence of Honey Bun wrappers on the sidewalk.

G.I. Joe dreamboat Channing Tatum says:

"Let's go have a beer on the White House lawn."

May I join you, Chan?

The character Shipwreck from the franchise will not be featured in this summer's live-action film interpretation, but with sequels there's always hope. I had a crush on Shipwreck, probably because he was the only guy on the team with a beard.

John Quincy Adams is Tweeting from 1779! Word. Learn more about JQA at Twitter handle @JQAdams_MHS. This innovative mashup of past and present is brought to you by the Massachusetts Historical Society. A young museum visitor pointed out to curators that Adams was ahead of his time, writing his diary sidebar comments in short quips - perfect for the 140 character format allowed by Twitter. The diary entries track Adams' voyage to Russia. Two hundred years after Adams' journey began, accounts of his trip and his ensuing work as the first American ambassador to Russia will be chronicled daily on Twitter.

Have you noticed bluebirds tend to look drab these days? Researchers have found out 'feather-eating bugs' are dulling the birds' plumage.

I'm gettin' outta Dodge this weekend for a trip just outside the Beltway on Saturday and Sunday on the banks of the Shenandoah River on a private farm about 10 miles south of Front Royal, VA. It's put on by the LGBT-friendly FAB Festival and online camping group Gay Outdoors.

While the weather has normalized by DC standards to our regularly scheduled sogginess, the weather outlook for the weekend looks promising. At the very least it will be cooler out west towards the mountains.

I met a heterosexual female reader of my blog the other night! I was shocked. I know of a couple of you are out there, but I'm guessing y'all are few in number. Post a shout-out in the comments and reprezent if you like.

Spring 2010 Bear Fashion Preview. Prada Bears all over the world are delighted with new options in pastel.

From Sturtle, a teaser trailer for the film adaptation of the ultra-depressing, post-apocalyptic book The Road. While I loves my post-apocalypse stories, I thought the book went on and on...and I didn't like the ending either. That said I'm looking forward to an hour of depressing greyness and a bag of popcorn! From the previews it looks like the story will be somewhat true to the book.

For those of you who prefer pre-apocalypse, here's the teaser for the remake of V. The priest is hot, and it looks like that one lady who played Adria the Orici in the Final season of Stargate is in it, and that lady who played Neo's girlfriend in The Matrix. Hopefully the show will fill the emptiness inside me since BSG ended. And we had better see at least one guinea pig or small mammal eaten alive by the bad guys, or it's not worth the effort.

And from Jennie, a haunting interpretation of your favorite Beyoncé song by Antony & The Johnsons. It took me a minute to realize what song he was singing.

You've heard of killer bees, but howabout bee-killers? Back home in Beltsville, researchers have sequenced the genome of one suspect responsible for colony collapse disorder (CCD).

I hope everyone had a nice Easter brunch yesterday:

This little one has the wisdom that will help you stay out of such predicaments:

Hopefully that poor polar bear won't have to clear out his colon after the incident.

The intruder is apparently not the first human to have wandered into this polar bear enclosure, and human incursions into animal space at zoos happen all over the world. Some of the requirements of the Animal Welfare Act include ensuring the safe separation of humans from animals for the sake of the animals, because humans obviously don't know any better. I mean, what kind of zoonotic diseases has this poor bear been exposed to?

Seriously though, with humans becoming more and more separated from wildlife and nature due to the spread of urban/suburbanization, these stupid incidents will continue to happen. Most people think animals are cute and furry and that we can somehow establish a spiritual connection with animals. On the contrary, animals indeed want to establish a vital connection - between you and their stomach.

Anyway, here's a great story about a gay organization that achieved its goals and closed up shop.

"If the gay community truly wants to achieve equality, it will have to overcome a victim mindset that is slowly becoming obsolete."

Adidas Super 14 Jersey Swap interactive ad. Great for hours of fun.