• Lisa Kudrow's a genius. The people who cancelled The Comeback are fools. That is all.

• Paris Hilton's dead, naked body never looked so educational. Artist Daniel Edwards has created a life-size sculpture to highlight the "disturbingly glamorized trend of Hollywood's girls gone wild", according to TMZ. In twenty year's time, Hilton's real body will be doing that on its own.

• Michael Lucas' former right hand, Heather "Reznor" Fink and her comedy troupe sure like meat. Especially in panties. And they say the porn industry doesn't fuck you up.

• Gene Robinson on New Hampshire's new civil union laws: "I think this moves us one step closer to the American promise to all its citizens of equality under the law. My partner and I look forward to taking full advantage of the new law." No more living in sin for those boys!

• Class Comics, Inc: totally NSFW gay superhero fun.

• Jim McGreevey and Dina Matos have "agreed" on joint custody of their daughter. Also, McGreevey's faggotry apparently is "not significant".

• Posh and Becks must be stopped.

• VH1 has made a career out of making New York's career.

• From PageOneQ: "[A] Bentonville, AR man is seeking $20,000 in damages and the firing of the town's top librarian, claiming his two sons were disturbed after stumbling upon The Whole Lesbian Sex Book in the town's public library." Only $20,000? Fuck, it's The Whole Lesbian Sex Book. That's a lot of information, definitely deserving of $25,000.

To make up for the missing Morning Aural, we'd like to offer you this clip from the Lisa Kudrow stinker, Marci X. We didn't see it - nor did anyone else that we know of - but we actually kind of dig this parodic boy band. Is that weird?

• Turns out Lisa Kudrow thought HBO would give her at least two seasons to play Valerie Cherish. [LAT]

• The new FDNY calendar features Survivor winner Tom Westman — and other guys whose abs are more chiseled. [Towleroad]

• More PR trouble for Star Jones comes from today's Page Six, with a lead item documenting a late-night alleged gentlemen caller looking for Al Reynolds. [Page Six]

• Chad Allen's Shock To The System opens in selected cities today (read: Like always, New York and Los Angeles residents get to see the queer flicks before anyone else). [NYT]

• In the U.K., a man convicted of knowingly infecting his boyfriend with HIV gets sentenced to more than four years in prison. Now officials just have to find him. [BBC]

RIP Valerie Cherish. Without a doubt, The Comeback was our biggest loss this year.

Our pal over at Popbytes has decided to name Valerie his “fave person o’ 2005.” His tribute, including many photos and HILARIOUS soundbytes, has us all teary-eyed. Sometimes, there is just no justice in the world.

Valerie Cherish, we’ll miss you.

valerie cherish...my fave person o' 2005! [Popbytes]

We knew the flip of Madonna’s hair reminded us of someone. We just didn’t know who. We were thinking perhaps Boogie Nights or Farrah Fawcett. Then this morning we read Kenneth’s site and it all made sense.

Madonna is channeling her inner Valerie Cherish. The hair? Check. A comeback? Check. Surrounding herself with younger peeps in a desperate attempt to remain vital? Check.

Cherish, Cherish.

"Devastated, I stood there and cried like a baby,"- Pepper LaBeija, in Paris Is Burning.

That pretty much sums up how we feel about Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback being cancelled. I guess the show was too smart even for HBO's elitist television viewer. We will admit it. It took way too long for us to get into the show, but once we did we were hooked like Kate Moss on coke. Kudrow was brilliant and always in character. Not once did you think of her as Phoebe, which is a hard thing to do when known as one character for so long. Want proof? Watch the episode where she sings "I Will Survive." Comic genius.

While Kudrow was the show's star the real reason we will miss The Comeback is Mickey, played by Robert Michael Moore. Not feeding into stereotypes of what gay hairdressers should look like (no pleather, highlights, or snapping fingers), Mickey was lovable and the show's heart. The show's big gay heart that is.

We just hope Valerie Cherish has yet another comeback. Perhaps Kudrow can switch to Showtime and use the cancellation as fodder for another season on another station. However you do it just please comeback.