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Best Episode of 'Snapped' EVER! Just when you think this Amy Bishop story can't get any more bizarre -- she's already blown away all of her colleagues at work and now we know she killed her brother -- comes news that she was working on a novel about a scientist who killed her brother and atoned by excelling at her work, and that she was questioned about a pipe-bomb that was mailed to a colleague of hers at Harvard with whom she had some sort of dispute. A former coworker said Bishop “had a smirk on her face” when asked about the incident. “I don’t know why she was smirking,” she said. Um. I do! (And you thought the bangs were scary.) (NYT)

The Candidate: Providence, R.I. Mayor David Cicilline, who is openly gay, announced Sunday that he will be a candidate to fill the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Patrick Kennedy, the troubled son of the late Ted Kennedy who surprised political observers by announcing he would not run for reelection this year. (GayPolitics)

Gay for Play: This list of the "Greatest, Gayest Videos of all Time" is fun -- Dead or Alive, Divine, Bronski Beat, even if I don't agree with the Pet Shop Boys that "Domino Dancing" effectively ended their American chart career by being so "homoerotic." A) This is the first time I'd ever SEEN it, and B) the whole video is hot men chasing GIRLS around -- until two guys engage in two seconds of horseplay in the ocean, not unlike every two 18-year-olds I've ever seen on a beach. (And kudos for digging up Cher's "Hell on Wheels," which features the former Mrs. Bono "shuttling down the road in a hot pink and zebra-print spandex number and roller skates while every gay caricature (cowboy, cop, biker, bandana boy, hustler, gladiator, drag queen) eggs her on." (Read: heaven on earth!) (Out)

Just Don't Ask: It sounds like a complete repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy is probably years away. (AP)

Snubbing 'Susan': With just a little bit or renumbering -- and the addition of the obscenely omitted "Desperately Seeking Susan" -- Marc Harshbarger's 25 grooviest movies of the 1980s could be mine ("After Hours, "Ordinary People," "Hannah and Her Sisters," "Diner," "Broadcast News," "Parting Glances"). (Deep Dish)

Out in Africa: Kenyan police officers broke up a gay wedding on Friday and arrested several wedding guests, saying they had to intervene before an irate mob could stone the wedding party to death. (NYT) The Rev. Zacc Kawalala, the leader of the Word Alive Ministry and a member of the national human rights commission, said: “The West has its gay agenda. It wants to look at Africa and say, ‘If you don’t accept homosexuality, you are primitive.’ But we’re not as wicked as the West.” (NYT)

'Soldier' On: I've been feeling guilty about not having purchased Sade's "Soldier of Love" album -- I had recently pondered whether I would buy the CD or the download, but then wound up having it drop in my lap from a friend. But I'm happy to read it will debut at No. 1 this week, having sold something like 400,000 copies! (Billboard)

Just Go Away: GLAAD wants John Mayer to apologize for saying faggot, but I'd rather he just go disappear forever. (WHO is this loser?) (Access Hollywood)

Sick and Tired: Four activists from the LGBT civil rights group Queer Rising were arrested Friday morning after chaining themselves to the New York Marriage Bureau following the application and subsequent rejection of marriage licenses to more than 20 same-sex couples. (Towleroad)

RIP: Sad to hear that Michael Phelps, a former publisher of the Advocate, has died at 45. “Professionally, as publisher of The Advocate, and personally, as a gay activist, Mike was a generous supporter of the center and many other LGBT organizations,” says Jim Key, the LAGLC’s chief public affairs officer. “He was also a dear friend. We both had our first river rafting experience last summer, to benefit the center, and just a few months ago we vowed to do it again this year.” (Advocate)