My two favorites:

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (above) and A Morning Stroll

If you get the chance to see them, let me know your favorites.

The BBC documentary “Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan” with the tag line “Keeping the Taliban at bay in the most dangerous square mile on earth” is coming under scrutiny for using sexy photos to promote the series. But we don’t mind at all.

The first episode shows them cleaning up in pond. Follow the link and click on each starred photo for the NSFW version- you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Y.O.U. Pandora? Just minutes after Madonna performed “Give Me All Your Lovin’” at the Superbowl, Sherry Vine posted her parody, “Give Me All Your Muff.” I’m liking this a lot and I don’t even mind the ad in the video. A girl’s gotta get paid!

Check out the not-so-surpise twist ending where they start making out, or as Madonna would say “she is the baby pop star, and I am kissing her to pass my energy on to her.” Watch out Pandora Boxx! You don’t know where that mouth has been.

Hopefully Pandora Boxx will have a nervous breakdown in the near future and shave off her head, just like Britney Spears.

On Monday,  Ron Paul was lightly dusted with glitter after a campaign rally at the Minneapolis Convention Center.  Glitterati Mastermind, Robert Erickson (aka Nick Espinosa of Barbarian Fame) posted “Housing and healthcare are human rights and not privileges” on his facebook page shortly after the last of the top tier GOP candidates was glitter bombed by Robert McAwesome.

Later that evening at the Ramada Hotel in the Mall of America, high school students interrupted Newt Gingrich, shouting, “Hey Newt, why do you support discrimination against gays and lesbians all the time? Serial hypocrisy!”

This is a breaking story. Updates as details emerge.

UPDATE:  There are new reports that Rick Santorium was also glitter bombed again) on Tuesday.

With her Givenchy designed Roman outfit, the seemingly wing inspired headdress by Philip Treacy, the use of a lyre and her arrival under a cloud of feathers, who else could she be but the goddess that awards victory in battle?

Let’s take a look and you decide:

Cher's album cover did not inspire Madonna.

Kylie Minogues' Aphrodite has nothing on Madonna.

Madonna prefers twinks to He Man, so She Ra didn't inspire her either.

Nike, Goddess of Victory often shown with Lyre.

Madonna with Lyre.

Madonna arrives under giant feathers- wings are a symbol of Nike.

The headpiece seems wing inspired- Madonna is Nike.

Madonna is Goddess! Nike, that is.

Of course Madonna’s superbowl performance was almost flawless, and she managed to keep her clothes on. But here’s a hilarious clip of Madonna almost falling during the Vouge intro of her halftime show.

For those of you laughing at Madge, try doing her movies in stiletto heels in the freezing Indiana winter!

Here is Madonna opening during Superbowl XLVI Halftime Show:

Tonight Channing Tatum is hosting Saturday Night Live, the actor known for his role in the homoerotic Roman film “The Eagle.” Reminding the audience that he got his start as a male stripper, Channing busted out of his shirt right in the opening monologue of the show, looking pretty darn good.

At first I thought he was going to only have Kristen Wiig in the audience as one of his former clients, but of course it went gay and we got to see the hilarious Fred Armisen drool over Channing’s ripped body.

Here’s a photo of the actor in his early days as a male stripper.

– Marsian is a Los Angeles-based puppet artist, chanteuse, and high art drag personality. MarsianDeLellis.com

Check out this wacky but adorable recap of the Season 4 Premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race, all done with puppets. I love it when puppets make their own puppets.

Marioneta Fuego is part-time Facebook hunk Jonny K Jouet’s drag queen puppet alter ego. When he’s not busy making videos with his drag queen puppet, Jonny likes to show off his naked body on Facebook for anyone who will watch. My kind of guy.

I think I can smell the sexiness of Jonny K Jouet, or is something burning in the kitchen?

We actually met Jonny our first year of podcasting back when we used to walk around our neighborhood like madmen with microphones interviewing anyone who we met. Jonny ran into us at the coffee shop and we all hit it off.

Now he’s my review:

Jonny, I’m a bit concerned about the stitching on Marionetta’s lips. Is she supposed to be a plastic surgery addict like Jocelyn Wildenstein?

At this point, we're not sure if NYC socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein isn't a puppet herself.

The popsicle stick drag queens was a stroke of genius, and who can argue that Mike Ruiz is one of the hottest men on television, despite being on that douchebag-o-rama of a show “The A List.” Nice work Jonny! Sashay, you stay.

Manila Luzon has a new video “Hot Couture” featuring a dazzling array of costumes and wigs, including a delicious dessert table dress.

You might enjoy watching the drag queens as they bitterly eat cake off of Manila, but the highlight of the video for me was seeing baby Manila Luzon getting caught prancing around in drag by her mom. Watch to see what happens!

Narrative is so important, especially in music videos. Nice work Manila! Sashay, you stay.

You might remember her getting mad at Beyonce for singing her ballad “At Last” at President Obama’s inaugural ball.

Maybe she was also angry at the way Beyonce played her in the 2008 film “Cadillac Records,” which suggest her success was not one of her own making. Either way, we’ll never forget the strength and intensity of her voice and music.

Here’s one of her last TV appearances on Dancing with the Stars, singing her iconic song.

Ruth Brown as Motormouth Maybelle Stubbs in the original film Hairspray.

Was Etta James part of the inspiration for John Water’s soulful rebellious character Motormouth Maybelle Stubbs in Hairspray?

Here’s a great mix of some of her sexier, racier songs. In the Basement, down in the basement!

Here’s a real 1939 Soviet propaganda poster celebrating the “liberation” of “West Ukrainians” (or eastern Poles, depending on your viewpoint) I found on this WWII image site.

What a country! In Russia, your country loves you, literally.

Will we be seeing these type of images in military propaganda here in the U.S. anytime soon?

Hope you enjoy reading it.

When you travel to Berlin you will quickly notice that the city is full of hipsters. All of them try so hard to be unique and alternative but because there are so many of them the hipster has become mainstream in Berlin.

Last night we celebrated Glitter Day with an Egyptian flavour! My husband and I are just back from a trip to Egypt and thought that a well endowed fertility god would give a nice touch to the evening

Along with rainbow flags we had pyramids, arabian lanterns and an image of Alexander the Great with Min (the fertility god) and his… offer!!!

Happy Glitter day!!!

Glittivism

Civil disobedience took a shiny new twist during the second half of 2011, with a sprinkling of glitter bombings that bedazzled a stunned nation in its wake of sparkles.  Thanks to glitter pranksters, or “the Glitterati”, as they like to be called, the “Glitter Bomb” hit the mainstream media and glimmered its way into an all but lackluster cultural lexicon.

What is in store in 2012 for glitter? Expect a glitter-related lawsuits, a glitter fatality, or perhaps a nasty strain of flesh eating glitter. In 2012 terrorists may get their hands on Dirty Glitter (radioactive glitter made from uranium shavings).

Plan ahead for  long lines at Arts and Craft Stores which may be on lock down intermittently. Trans people in possession of glitter might want to take extra precautions at Dan Savage speaking engagements as they may be detained or arrested with suspicion of intent to throw. Look out for promotional offers for some off-label uses of glitter, such as Glintabrasion (glitter-microderm abrasion) especially around the holiday season.

Mic Checks and Balances

If 2011 wasn’t the year of glitter bombs, it certainty was the year of Mic Checks. The 99-percenters kept everyone occupied from Michelle Bachmann to President Obama who were interrupted by mic checks during campaign speeches.  But in 2012, the heckling won’t stop there.As the political becomes personal, expect to see a Mic Check employed at a high-profile awards ceremony like the Oscars or the MTV Music Video Awards, or even somewhere more suburban and mundane like a PTA Meeting or ballet recital as the Mic Check gets stale and goes into a downward spiral of trend-sprawl.

Astroglinting and Mic-Turfing

Whether they are instigated by hacktivists trying to prove a point, leaked from understaffed news rooms waiting for an aging star to die, or waged by blood thirsty PR agents trying to revive a fallen star’s career by manipulating public opinion, Fauxbituaries (fictional obituaries) are the new living dead.

In the past we have reported on RIPsters  (users of social media who compulsively need to be the first in their circle to report on a the death of a public figure, or celebrity (deleb). In 2011, internet rumors circulated that musician, John Bon Jovi has passed went viral, as did videos made by wishful RIPsters about the imminent death of actress Alissa Milano.

In December, ABC  and Gawker reported that a Pennsylvania man sent an obituary of his mom to the local newspaper so that he could get time off from work. The man was fired from his job and charged with disorderly conduct after the mother walked into the newspaper office to refute her own SlashRIP (combination of slash fiction and rest in peace). Tumbler even has an entire blog devoted to fake obituaries of people who never existed called, Fake Obituaries.

Extreme Emotions

As the ecology of the mind erodes and  mental illness reaches pandemic levels in the Western world,  coupled with economic downturn and the housing crisis, 2012 will usher in an era of Extreme Emotions (just as Extreme Weather has plagued the frail ecosystem of a planet in decline).

We have already seen extreme public displays of emotion in 2011 with video footage of North Koreans weeping hysterically shortly after the death of Kim Jong Il and whimsical videos of  Laughtivists cracking up entire subway trains. Another micro-trend, The Confessional Index became a YouTube sensation when young people and the terminally ill made sad videos conveyed with cue cards and sappy music, most notably popularized by bullied teen Jonah Mowrey in his video Whats Going On?  This video spawned a nasty backlash, as well as a slew of copy cat and response videos, (including some hopeful ones).

In 2012 expect to advertising agencies to appropriate  Emotional Cue Cards in order to sell big ticket items like a cars, while manipulating the consumers longings for spiritual connection and inner peace.

Privacy Settings A FoWL

In 2011, Wired reported that Occupiers were building a Facebook to save the 99 percent. Meanwhile, Julian Assange’s FoWL (Friends of WikiLeaks) got of to a rocky start despite its cute mascot which appeared to be a cross between the Twitter bird and the NBC peacock.

What exactly will privacy settings be on these new social networks? What will be the fate of online privacy in 2012 after Facebook rolls out its new Timeline which records life events, like overcoming an illness, changing an eating habit, or quitting smoking? Will Sociopathic Healthcare Companies get social and aggregate this information from the users’ profiles in an attempt to deny them services? Will they finance their own Social Aps so users can rat themselves out unknowingly for pre-existing conditions?

With a plethora of of social media options in 2012, which social media giant will rise and who will fall?  Who will get bought out by whom? And what social media site will be left to the wayside?

Generation ZE

From Trans Kids to Princess boys to little girls debating gender theory in toy stores – the gender apocalypse is here to stay and getting younger each and every day!  Look out for more mainstream documentaries on Trans Kids and non-gender conforming children, like ABC’s
Transgender Kids Pioneer Early Changes to Identity, Body.

In 2011, Cheryl Kilodavis, author of the groundbreaking children’s’ book,  My Princess Boy, and her gender-non-conforming son Dicen, made the rounds on a number of talk shows. There is now more of an audience for books and content by and for gender-non conforming children. The My Princess Boy page now boasts over 12k followers and proud parents frequently post pictures of their princess boys.

Also expect to see more Celebrities, public figures, or reality stars who make the decision to transition publicly like translebrities, Chaz Bono and Alexis Arquette. 2012 will bring more public awareness to trans children of public figures like Stephen Beatty, Warren Beatty’s transgendered son. Expect more of an outcry on Transogyny and more calling into question the media’s portrayal of  transgendered experiences.

– Marsian is a Los Angeles-based puppet artist, chanteuse, and high art drag personality MarsianDeLellis.com