The new episode of Bob Kushell, famed writer/producer from The Simpsons, was released on Crackle.com this week with a new special guest. The pilot program kicked off with a special appearance by John Stamos and Kushell keeps the ball rolling with his 5-minute "Talkfest" with another high profile guest, Neil Patrick Harris. My girlfriend got me Season 2 of How I Met Your Mother on DVD for X-Mas, so I've been watching NPH for a couple days straight now. My friend told me the mark of a good actor is if you can't see them any other way, so I will go ahead and proclaim Harris a tour-de-force for his character of Barney. Who knew a gay man could slay so many fine New York ladies?

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Since the fall of the Roman Empire, the lines between gay and straight have never been so skewed until now. With the support of major media, alternative lifestyles are considered to be hip and trendy. Just ask Lindsay Lohan.

Whether some is gay or straight doesn’t affect me either way, unless of course if I happen to be dating them.  Being a fairly perceptive girl, I have never seen myself as the type of gal who could fall for a gay guy.  But now with the rise of the metro sexual, who closely resembles the homosexual, it might be easier than I would have ever thought possible.

In the past year, two girls I know have dated guys that turned out to be gay. Flora, my bff since high school, had a guy tell her he was “into dudes too” while they cuddled in bed after doing the deed. Barf.  And Jodie, my friend’s friend caught her boyfriend of three months making out with a guy at a nightclub.  When she confronted him (while he was still making out with the guy), he told her to calm down and that he was just really drunk.

Were these girls being really unperceptive, or were these guys hiding their gay-ness very well?

If you live in the city, especially Los Angeles, you have really got to keep your gay-dar at full alert when looking for a boy.  But even supreme intuition can be fooled by guys that are gay but  don’t know it or want to ignore it.  Ladies, here are some clues that will help tip you off to feminine fellas. 

Remember the days when Domino Rally was the proverbial 'shit'. Even if those days were last weekend, there's nothing better than spending hour after agonizing hour for two seconds of utter elation. Well, now you can spend your work day or J-term lecture setting 'em up and knocking 'em down thanks to this site DrawMinos.com. Create a domino set, send it to your friends. Send it to your mom. It'll blow her mind.

While it doesn't have the spring loaded catapults or giant pendulums like the Domino Rallys of Old; it also doesn't accidentally fall when you sneeze in the wrong spot. It's the Monday after New Year's - you aren't doing work anyway. Stop lying.

Last month, Boosh partnered up with EA Sports to figure out what games from last season the public most desperately wanted to see replayed with different outcomes. Thanks to the realism of the EA's new NCAA Basketball '09, we can get as close to a replay of those matches as possible... without Doc and the Delorean. We had a bunch of people submit their two cents, here are the top four. Not surprisingly, Stephen Curry makes up 75% of the commentary:

Doug (Pittsburgh, PA)

"I'll admit it would be nice to see Belmont replay Duke and finally win this time around but the game I would like to see replayed is the Pitt vs Michigan State game in the NCAA tourney, it should have been a showcase of Neitzel vs Fields but ended up a sloppy mess with too many whistles and no flow to the game."

Anthony (Chicago, IL)

"I would love to see that Kansas / Davidson game from the Elite 8 played last year replayed.  I want Davidson to come away with the win, simply because I think Bill Raftery's, Gus Johnson's and Dick Vitale's heads would have exploded with joy on national television.  That just seems like something I'd like to see before I die."

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We are now in the thick of winter.  For those of us in the Midwest, that means frozen pipes, frostbit fingertips and lots of hot beverages.  The sun rises early and sets earlier. Life during these five frigid months equates to a waiting game. Waiting for the sun. 

But even as I freeze my buns off in Chicago, I still prefer it to the other end of the spectrum. Let’s take a look at Dubai, the Las Vegas of the Middle East minus booze, premarital sex and drugs (all of these are outlawed because the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a Muslim country). The last thing anyone can call Dubai is cold.

Around this time of year the average temperature there is 80 degrees, which isn’t all that terrible. But during high season, meaning June- August, temperatures can get up to 120, 10 degrees hotter than Arizona during July.  That is fry an egg on your car’s front hood hot.