Most of the time I am not sure when the Super bowl is, let alone have an intense desire to watch the Super bowl. However this year is different. My team, the Green Bay Packers, is headed to the Super bowl and is going to decimate the field with the Pittsburg Steelers. Now by my team, I mean I haven’t watched a single game all season, but I went to college in Wisconsin and therefore have a lifelong loyalty to the cheese heads.  Aside from cheering my team on to victory, I am looking forward to beefy refrigerator like men in uniform smashing into each other for four hours, entertained by hilarious commercials, and ultimately I’m looking forward to have a justifiable reason to overindulge myself on fried fatty foods. I spent time last night devising an ideal menu for game day. Of course, paying homage to our Wisconsin roots, we are breaking out the grill and serving up some good ole fashioned brats. I also thought I would break out one of my killer appetizers - mainly because one bite will clog your arteries- my spinach artichoke dip. The last part of the menu came to me during a feverish hunger dream where I fantasized about a mound - dare I say pyramid - of chicken nuggets surrounded by 12 different flavorful dipping sauces to appeal to all tastes.    

Of course, what I am looking forward to most is the return of GLEE. The popular FOX show, which is in the midst of their second season, has been on hiatus for the past two months. They triumphantly return this evening with a "super bowl" special episode entitled "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle". As usual, Sue Sylvester is constantly trying to up the ante on her Cheerios routines. She incorporates purple wigs into the show - perfect for a Katy Perry number no? - guys on motorcycles, and hula hoops. None of these added elements impress Sue, so she gets the idea to shoot Britney out of a cannon. Katie Couric is scheduled to make a guest appearance to interview the Cheerios coach. Some of the numbers planned for this episode include a massive "Thriller" dance on the football field, Destinys Child's "Bills Bills Bills" performed by the Warblers and fabulously hot Darren Criss, and Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now". I am excited for the return of GLEE and how they intend to wrap up this latest season. Will Kurt stay with the Warblers or will he switch sides once again to lead New Directions to victory? Will Kurt get with the adorable Blaine or the hunky testosterone spewing closeted bully Dave? Will John Stamos ever return for another episode? I have appreciated the plot direction that writers have taken. However I noticed that though the plot lacked consistency and authenticity in the first season, the musical numbers rocked. In this second season, the plot has captivated me far more then many of the musical numbers. In the past few episodes the musical numbers have been few and far between and often have nothing to do with an overall theme. Ultimately I enter the rest of the season with an open mind; I just hope they don't actually follow through on the Justin Bieber themed episode of GLEE. 

       Hmmmmm Not quite sure what was going on at this party but I am sad that my invitation was lost in the mail. Again not making any assumptions about his personal life, but he would make a great addition to the home team & and look how comfortably and naturally he fits in ;) Although I think if I actively tried to convert Matthew Morrison my straight girlfriends would probably hit me down and beat my ass with a bedazzled wand and destroy all my tiaras.

Here on the left, he is in a production of Million Miles - a new off-Broadway show. He looks a little bit like Gyllenhaal - right around the Jarhead period. He just looks so manly and rugged in these photos and the pickup truck that he is standing on - and invariably singing on as well - completes the whole picture.

Then on our right we have the sensitive and thought-provoking shot of him. Look at him dreamily staring at the camera, hmmmm to quote the immortal Blanche Deveroux "I'm jumpier than a virgin at a prison rodeo!!"

GLEE came into my life an a very important juncture in my life. The High School Musical trilogy had come to a close and I was desperately seeking upbeat breakaway pop hits and flashy musical numbers … and then GLEE entered the picture. It was safe to say that all my friends and I were addicted from the second the show begin. Of course, the defining moment for us was the final number – Journey's Don't Stop Believing. The rendition brought tears to my eyes and promptly my roommate and I rewinded the episode on our DVR 15 times or so to watch the epically moving and awe-inspiring performance. From then on the show has read my mind and has transformed some of my favorite jams into show stopping numbers leaving me all sorts of verklempt. Everything from “No Air”, “Somebody to Love”, “Endless Love”, “Don't Rain on my Parade”, and of course “Defying Gravity”.

Ecstatic, would be an understatement, for how I felt about the premiere of GLEE. Too long I had gone without new GLEE numbers to add my itunes. In some ways it's scary how much the producers of GLEE are specifically tailoring the song choices in the show to fit MY needs. I swear it's some weird mind connection bullshit, where they see the most played songs in my itunes library and then redoing them in a more perfect way. For example, this week's episode had Mercedes and an entire cheerleading squad belting Christina Aguilera's “Beautiful” - I nearly fainted from the flood of emotions.

I was doing some research online to find out the songs that were featured in this week's episode of GLEE entitled “Home”. Guest starring Kristen Chenowith, the show featured a beautiful perform of Kurt singing “A House is Not a Home” and a duet between Chenowith and Morrison to “One Last Bell to Answer”. As I was doing research online I came across news that the release of the 3^rd album the GLEE enterprise is set to unveil in mid-May. the CD is entitled “SHOWSTOPPERS”. I immediately had the gay gasp and frantically began perusing the songs they have coming up for the rest of the show. Here is the lineup:

1) Hello, Goodbye
2) Gives You Hell
3) Hello
4) A House Is Not A Home
5) One Less Bell To Answer / A House Is Not A Home
6) Beautiful
7) Home
8) Physical
9) Total Eclipse of the Heart
10) Lady Is A Tramp
11) One
12) Rose’s Turn
13) Dream On
14) Safety Dance
15) I Dreamed a Dream
16) Loser
17) Give Up the Funk
18) Beth
19) Poker Face
20) Bad Romance

My gay little brain was not physically, spiritually, nor emotionally prepared to review this disc's set list. I saw that the one and only miss Idina Menzel is singing “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Mis as well as Poker Face, Jonathon Groff is redoing Bonnie Tyler's “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, and Neil Patrick Harris performing “Dream On”. Just when I thought that GLEE could not become any gayer, fabulous, or generally uplifting they freakin break out Bonnie Tyler, Olivia Newton John, and Lady Gaga – these producers are not playing around.

If this alone did not fulfill my humble but sometimes ridiculous gay dreams, this certainly will. As I was having an epic day of GLEE research I came across photos of Matthew Morrison that not only fulfilled my gay dreams but created a few new ones of their own. However, I swear all I want to do with Matthew Morrison is get married – where all the GLEE cast members would be invited and as a present for us would perform an entire concert that had no less than three duets between Matt and myself – , oh and he will be married in this outfit ---------------------------------->

I just be saying and shit. Similarly, we would try to have four children that would have a long and illustrious career in Broadway and musical theatre. Matthew would of course wear the same outfit to that as he did at our wedding ;) Whether or not Matthew Morrison is gay or not is of little concern – hasn't stopped me in the past – and even though he says things like he has a girlfriend and likes vagina I am willing to hold out. I waited years for Ricky Martin and I could wait even longer for Matthew. Otherwise I will have to vicariously live my life through GLEE. However from now on, I am going to rewatch every episode imagining Matthew Morrison in his little yellow and orange booty shorts. I feel that this change will enhance the overall character and provide more depth to his arc …. or something like that.