This is about the most iconic image you're going to see following yesterday's California Supreme Court ruling striking down a ban on gay marriage. Reads the caption: "A wedding cake is seen during a demonstration in West Hollywood, California, May 15 after the decision by the California Supreme Court to effectively greenlight same-sex marriage." [Photo: AFP]

If you're sitting near a TV today, you're rainy Friday is gonna get a whole lot gayer, courtesy Ellen DeGeneres: "A spy in the audience of this afternoon's taping of the Ellen DeGeneres Show tells us that after Ellen mentioned today's California Supreme Court ruling striking down the state's ban on gay marriage, she surprised everyone and announced that she was going to tie the knot with longtime girlfriend, actress Portia de Rossi. Portia was in the crowd and after she made the announcement, the studio audience went wild, giving the two a huge standing O." [TMZ] Also, Justin Timberlake is on today's show, so there's that.

Just after 1pm today, CNN reported that the Supreme Court of California upheld the ban on gay marriage in the state. One intsy wintsy little problem: The court voted to strike down the ban.

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Boy, oh boy! Things are probably hectic in California right now, where the Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that Proposition 22, a ban on gay marriage, is unconstitutional. That’s the good news, of course. The bad news is that the court also ruled that San Francisco “acted unlawfully by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the absence a judicial determination that CA statutes limited marriage to union between a man and a woman are unconstitutional.” The 2004 marriages would thus be nullified, but who cares? Now they can have another wedding!

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• Despite the insistence of George Contanza, double-dipping really is like "like putting your whole mouth right in the dip."

• If you're L.A., be sure to check out the weed vending machines.

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Throwing money at a magazine for the moneyed isn’t enough.

Six months after a redesign and a new tagline, the Sacramento magazine Prosper is closing. There’s still a chance the magazine will continue exist in online, but in the meantime, nearly 20 employees are getting laid off. Doesn't this feel like the build-up in some cheesy Christmas movie right before an angel saves the day?

The editors’ advice for starting a lifestyle magazine: Make sure people care about the lifestyle you’re depicting. Seriously, there's not even reality TV show about Sac-town.

TMZ paying off public officials for publicly available information? As if! But that's not the way California State Assemblywoman Julia Brownley sees it, which is why she's introduced legislation to make it illegal to pay for information about criminal investigations. (Why there aren't already laws on the books prohibiting these types of bribes is, um, a shock?) Brownley is blaming TMZ's supposed news gathering techniques for the early release of information pertaining to Mel Gibson's arrest, among others. Reports Harvey Levin's soapbox:

Brownley said, "Mel Gibson was one of those cases where information was given out before his due process was executed." Huh? You may recall, L.A. County Sheriff's officials lied to TMZ and other media the entire day following the arrest, claiming it occurred "without incident." Officials ordered the arresting deputy to rewrite his report, eliminating all references to "f**king Jews" and other bad behavior.

TMZ goes on to point out that Brownley represents the district where a slew of celebrities, like Gibson, reside … and how this all might be a ploy to raise some celebrity dolla dolla bills for a reelection campaign. That, or she's tired of not receiving an invitation to Mel's annual Hate-a-thon, which, we hear, always has those little shrimp hors d'oeuvres we love.

What's an article about California's heat wave doing on a site like Jossip? Oh nothing much. We're just fulfilling our moral duty to remind you that some folks – outside of Manhattan, even – are suffering from whatever the hell Al Gore's been complaining about. The morgue is pilling up with these three-digit temperatures. Old people are dying. Strawberries are dying. Cows are dying!

Oh, and what's this, mixed in there with all that morbid heat-related news?

Actress Lindsay Lohan, 20, was overcome by the heat while filming a movie in 105-degree weather on Tuesday and treated at a hospital for overheating and dehydration, publicist Leslie Sloan Zelnick told “The Insider” entertainment show.

Say what you will about uber publicist Leslie Sloane Zelnik, but that girl got client Lindsay Lohan's latest bout of hospitalization roped in there with melting cows — rather than a more a suitable story about celebrities and substance abuse. Genius.

(And already Lindsay's bounced back.)

California heat wave blamed in up to 90 deaths [AP]
Earlier: Breaking: Lindsay Lohan Dehydrates Again — Zelnik Doesn't Even Try to Use Asthma Attack Excuse
Related: All Leslie Sloane Zelnik coverage