Reach out, touch floor. Marilyn Manson’s drummer, Ginger Fish aka Kenny Wilson, broke his wrist, suffered a concussion, and was hospitalized after falling off the Köln Arena stage in Cologne, Germany. The band had been performing a cover of Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus” at the time. So, you musicians, stop thanking God for your Grammys and MTV Music Awards and such, because God and His son Jesus really don’t think as highly of you as you think they do or they wouldn’t have put, say, Gloria Estefan in that bus, the Big Bopper on that airplane, or sent Brian Jones and Jeff Buckley swimming, would they?

“Tell Me Something Good,” indeed. The legendary Chaka Khan is in need of good news now that her 25-year-old son, Damien Holland, has been arrested for first-degree murder and held on $1 million bail. Los Angeles police were called last Friday after a gun that Holland and an 18-year-old guy were fighting over went off and struck the youth, who died later in the hospital.

Let’s get this party started. France finally has an all-gay TV channel. It’s called Pink. Was there already a Puce? It launches Oct. 25 on cable and satellite; monthly charge will be $11. The channel plans to contribute to the debate on homosexuality but will not be militant. The UK, of course, already has two gay channels: GayDate TV, a shopping channel, and GayTV, a late-night soft-core porn channel. But Pink is the first nationally broadcast gay channel of its kind and is aiming for at least 180,000 subscribers, half of whom will live in some Paris arrondissement or other. In the US, it seems every channel is either gay-friendly or gay-glutted, but next February the all-gay LOGO network will launch anyway.