You know how you’re dying and stuff?

Dan’s got a pretty good solution.

Fox is developing “I Married a Stranger,” a matrimonial reality series in which brides-to-be don’t meet their husbands until they exchange vows.

—Of course, arranged marriages are perfectly acceptable amongst proponents of traditional marriage. Just so long as it isn’t two dudes meeting each other for the first time and forming a lifelong bond of matrimony, America’s cool with it.

Ridley Scott is working on a series of ‘Blade Runner’ web shorts

I’m optimistic that this will be awesome

Recent church shootings, including the killing Sunday of a late-term abortion provider in Kansas, which he condemned, highlight the need to promote safe gun ownership.

—Ken Pagano, pastor of Kentucky’s New Bethel Church, inviting his congregation to bring their firearms to church later this month to celebrate the Fourth of July and the Second Amendment.

Michelle and Barack’s garden

I, for one, welcome our new fascist overlords [via Adam Isacson]

Yesterday, Marilyn would’ve been 83. LIFE published a handful of never before seen photos to commemorate.

Good fat, better fat

Toast!

I told J$ that I’d raise one in celebration of the end of her 20’s. Tonight, the ocelot and I drink with purpose!

Recently, in my mailbox.

A postcard all the way from Australia from Erin who wrote that mine was the cheesiest postcard she’d sent yet. Clearly, she feels my cerebral and erudite humor needed to be brought down a notch. Touché.

My very own Arrive Having Eaten t-shirt! I’m rooting for the octopus.

Also pictured: My ocelot letter opener holder, a gift from the lovely Greg and Stacy, my Playboy bartender’s guide, the Savoy Cocktail book, a receipt from my local market and an orange juice glass with a ring of dried nectar circling the bottom.