Batman is legendary. The only thing more memorable than the Caped Crusader is his rogues gallery. Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Rises has inspired Robert K of Robs Rants to produce this hilarious Banecat video. I wish I took my cat back from my ex just so I can dress him up in this outfit.

P.S. No cats were harmed during the making of this short video, according to Rob K.

• From the Coming OUT Queer Dance Party at La Cocina Facebook event page.
• The Coming OUT Queer Dance Party starts at 10 p.m. at La Cocina, 201 N. Court Ave.

It gets bigger and bigger every year. The Coming OUT Queer Dance Party is celebrating its third year of unadulterated and safe monthly fiestas at La Cocina, 201 N. Court Ave. So, this is super last minute because I just got the invite this morning. The 21 and older party stars at 10 p.m.

On March 25th, 2011, 2 brown queers from the hood birthed from their b-holes the first Coming Out Queer Dance Party in hopes of creating a fun and safe space for ALL Tucson queers and their allies to dance to anything and everything queer and queer-loved. The goals were set early: "House party jams. Pop pleasures. Drop-it-low booty bass. ANAL BEATZ."

3 YEARS LATER and we're still at it.

Thanks to the support of the wonderful gang at La Cocina and from everyone who shows up every month to get crazy and dance out their hearts + buttz until 2AM, we still have this little DIY-style dance party to enjoy every last Friday of the month. CUM celebrate 3 wonderful years of dance-floor-dry-humping, last-minute-dance-contests, and watching Jaime dance on a table in his underwear. Tucson, we love you.

PHOENIX — Sen. Steve Pierce (R-Prescott) stood up on the Senate floor last week and attempted to get $4.2 million for the University of Arizona to start a veterinary program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Shortly after he finished talking, the nay votes overwhelmed the yeas, and the amendment was voted down.

In his office, Rep. Ethan Orr (R-Tucson) who has his two University of Arizona diplomas hanging behind his desk, remains on a mission. Early in the week Orr, a former associate professor at the university, thought he could get the funding from the House, despite the lack of success of veterinary appropriations in the Senate. But later this week, the House only agreed to give the university $3.5 million for Cooperative Extension support. Without the support of the House and Senate, Orr will have to come up with some other way to squeeze the money he wants to create the University of Arizona’s first veterinary school and surgical program — before the budget is finalized.

But the legislative appropriations game is only part of a bigger conversation surrounding the proposed veterinary program — one between two veterinarians, Dr. Shane Burgess, the dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Dr. Wayne Anderson, of the Arrow Service Groups of Animal Hospitals, a co-op of veterinary hospitals in the Phoenix area.

Anderson says he has letters from over 30 private practices in the state, all of which state that they don’t support a veterinary school program for the university. But if you talk to Burgess (or Orr, or any other supporter of the program) they’ll tell you that the University of Arizona, as a land-grant university, has a responsibility to its citizens to create this program.

“We take this very seriously in my college; our job is to do whatever we can to benefit the state,” Burgess said. “My job is to do whatever I can to improve the state’s economy by improving the number of jobs, by improving the incomes of the private businesses, and by making our state a better place to live for everybody.” In Burgess’ view, that means giving Arizona students a better opportunity to become veterinarians — but with rising costs in tuition throughout the country, it also means creating a program that would minimize costs.

Currently, a program called the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education allows for Arizona students to pay in-state tuition to out of state schools in return of the students spending at least four years working in Arizona after they graduate.

“Even with that, a lot of veterinarians I know still leave with like a hundred grand in debt after veterinary school,” said Chris Cromwell said, a junior who is a veterinary sciences student at the University of Arizona. “Really, there in no cheap option for veterinary students in general, but especially veterinary students in Arizona.”

Most of the veterinary schools in the country are state schools and typically admit more in-state students than out of state students, which doesn’t leave much room for Arizona students like Cromwell.

To help Arizona students, Burgess has two ideas. One is to streamline the program, providing six different entry points into the program. The other is to use the resources that the university already has, including a distributive education model that would place students in clinics throughout the state.

Ronald McDonalds all over the country are expressing their love for the Mexican fast food goliath. What a good play on words, Taco Bell. We can't wait for all the Wendys testimonials.

• From NBC's "Parks and Recreation"

In case you weren't watching the Arsenio show Tuesday night - and of course you weren't, because who watches late night talk shows in any non-YouTube form anymore - you missed an extensive appearance by R&B supergroup (a stretch of that term, but let's let that slide for now) TGT. Tyrese, Ginuwine and Tank, the performers in the aforementioned group discussed their debut album last year, Three Kings, and performed their super subtle song "Sex Never Felt Better," but most importantly, Ginuwine sang most of his classic, "Pony":

The world cannot ever get enough of that song, because it speaks nothing but truth.

While it's nice to see Ginuwine still bumping and grinding on audience members, for a slightly fresher take on that particular sex jam, here's a remix by New York City DJ/unique user of capitalization eSenTRIK. Get nasty, baby.

[Note: I depend on the kindness of email strangers to tell me things I don't know, and this post is one example. If you have something I may be interested in, you can contact me at [email protected] — until they give me an email address of my very own.]

I've posted twice about the lege's third try to give what is essentially a no-bid contract to a Utah company, Imagine Learning, to supply software for ELL students — first here, then in a post showing that the Arizona bill, HB2485, is taken directly from an ALEC model bill. Now a kind email stranger showed me the bill's latest incarnation.

The original HB2485 is being turned into a strike-everything bill dealing with transmitting affidavits, which has nothing to do with the original. Meanwhile, the Imagine Learning language has been brought over to SB1488: K-12 education; budget reconciliation; 2014-2015. It's a big bill, and many of the details are way above my pay grade, but if you scroll down to section 15-216, you'll find the Imagine Learning bill's language is one part of the budget package.

The fact that it's no longer a stand-alone bill means two things, as I see it. First, anyone who votes for the bill can deny they supported the Imagine Learning part, saying they voted for the overall budget and had to take the good with the bad. Second, it means people who want to vote for the whole education budget bill have to vote for the Imagine Learning part whether they want to or not.

Exploded View microcinema and gallery, 197 #2 E. Toole Ave., has become a mover and shaker in Tucson’s cinema scene. From experimental films to fringe music movies to compelling social documentaries, Exploded View is definitely making a mark downtown. Catch the buzz on Saturday, March 29, when filmmaker Elizabeth Kennedy presents her documentary Wounaan: A People of the Rainforest, a look at an indigenous tribe living peacefully in the Columbian rain forests during the 1960s. It starts at 7:30 p.m., and admission is $5. For more information, visit explodedviewgallery.org or call 520-366-1573.

The Loft Cinema’s Wes Anderson series is winding down this week, with only two more films left to go. Saturday, March 29, Anderson’s epic The Royal Tenenbabums rolls out at 7 p.m. The third film directed by Anderson, it’s equally hilarious and poignant. Gene Hackman plays Royal Tenenbaum, an insufferable patriarch of a family full of woeful genii and socially awkward overachievers played by Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Gwyneth Paltrow (you can witness some early “conscious uncoupling” on display here). Tickets are regular admission, but they should let you in for free if your name is “Eli Cash.”

On Sunday, March 30, the Loft presents the 1958 sci-fi thriller Fiend without a Face as part of their Science of Cinema series. This schlocky picture, about a secret experiment gone awry at a military base, pulls out all the Atomic Era tropes. Soldiers mysteriously dying? Check. Blame it on spies? Check. Radiated monsters are the culprits, but it’s really an allegory for Cold War geo-politics? Oh you betcha, check! Film scholar and University of Arizona Regents Professor David Soren presents the film at 2 p.m. Tickets are $8 for general admission, $6 for Loft members and students.

• Comedian Brian Posehn will be performing at Hotel Congress on Thursday, May 8.

Hide your metal albums and funny books because alternative comedy pioneer Brian Posehn is coming. I spoke with Posehn at last year's Emerald City Comic Con and he said that he couldn't remember the last time he performed in the Old Pueblo. It makes sense because Posehn has been busy acting in Fox's New Girl, NBC's Community and co-writing the New York Times Best Seller Marvel Now! Deadpool comic.

Ron White is coming back to Tucson and he’s up to his old tricks: drinking, smoking and telling jokes.

Ron “Tater Salad” White may have a rough southern exterior, but it’s a mere shell to conceal his big heart. You might have caught White’s fourth annual “Comedy Salute to the Troops” benefit that debuted on Sunday. Don’t worry because you will have multiple chances to catch the 90-minute special during CMT’s CAN’T STOP LAUGHING WEEK. White invited his funny friends Gabriel Iglesias, Kathleen Madigan, Josh Blue, Roy Wood, Jr. and Geechy Guy on the bill to help raise money for the Armed Forces Foundation and create awareness for PTSD.

The special was originated when White was asked to visit some wounded warriors at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. “This is just another reminder that the country is still at war, and the soldiers that were blown up last year are still blown up,” White said.

The Texas native is a full time comedian.

White was forced to turn down a role in the Horrible Bosses sequel because he was going on nationwide comedy tour. White performs in 125 cities a year, and still finds time to work out new material at open mics in what ever city he’s in. “It’s all about writing new material. I think I'm a better comedian now than 5 years ago,” the 27-year comedy veteran said.

Shameless self-promotion alert! I will be a guest on the The World Famous Frank Show tomorrow at approximately 7:30 a.m. I will be discussing the Weekly's 100 Essential Dishes list with the fellas, and hopefully talking Frank out of the drive through bit.

If anyone is awake at that hour, considering the whole city will be celebrating our Sweet 16 Victory (or god forbid, drowning our sorrows of a loss), tune in and catch my ever so charming nervous sta-sta-stutter and constant stream of "umms" and "uhhs".

Go Cats!!!