Leave it to Oklahoma City rock star Wayne Coyne, frontman for The Flaming Lips, to use his love of confetti to antagonize a savage beast.

Coyne appears on this week’s episode of comedian T.J. Miller (“She’s Out of My League”) web series “The Gorburger Show,” and not surprisingly, things get even weirder than usual, which doesn’t even seem possible but is so, so true.

Oklahoma native and University of Oklahoma Ph.D student Reed Timmer, the star of Discovery Channel’s 2007-2012 series “Storm Chasers,” is raising funds via Kickstarter for his new docu-series “Tornado Chasers” which he is producing simultaneously as he negotiates his next TV deal.

Hosted by the Academy of Country Music, CBS Television and dick clark productions, the nominees will be announced via ACM social media channels: www.facebook.com/AcademyOfCountryMusic and www.twitter.com/ACMawards.

Pop-rockers All-American Rejects, who have Stillwater roots, were the latest music artists to perform and sit down for a chat in the MLB Fan Cave. To see their performance and interview clips, click here.

At MLBFanCave.com, new videos, photos and blogs featuring Major League Baseball’s biggest stars along with celebrities, musical acts and other guests are posted every day, allowing fans to interact with the game in an entirely new way.

Georgina Chapman picks Oklahoma photographer’s image for “Project Imaginat10n” short film As part of Ron Howard’s initiative, Edmond resident Brittany Johnson’s photo “Her Throne Was Magic” will inspire the character in the fashion designer/actress’ short film.

Two Oklahomans named winners in Ron Howard’s new photo contest The Oscar-winning director and Canon U.S.A. have partnered for the nationwide “Project Imaginat10n” contest — the follow-up to last year’s “Project Imagin8ion”  — and five celebrities already have signed on to direct short films based on some of the winning photos.

Acappella, which recently gave a free concert at Oklahoma Christian University, is participating in a contest that has them now in a tight race with a group from the University of Connecticut to win it all, reports The Oklahoman’s Religion Editor Carla Hinton.

October is Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month, and The All-American Rejects guitarist Nick Wheeler, who hails from Stillwater, is partnering with Petfinder.com to encourage people to consider making a shelter doggie their forever pet.

Wheeler adopted his dog, Dexter, from a shelter in 2009.

Among the artists scheduled to participate in the celebration are Lynn, her sister Crystal Gayle, plus friends Miranda Lambert, who lives in Tishomingo; Lee Ann Womack; Trace Adkins; and Lambert’s all-girl trio Pistol Annies, who will be making their Opry debut

Lynn joined the Opry family on Sept.