Not too long ago, George Takei and his longtime partner had a great big wedding — and it was a good thing they didn’t wait any longer, since California stopped allowing same-sex weddings practically the instant the voting results were in on Prop 8 — but there was a bit of a dust-up between Takei and William Shatner because Takei invited all the other Star Trek cast-mates but not The Shat. So The Shat put up a video on YouTube that was actually kind of mean and nasty about the whole thing.
But that ain’t nuthin’. By now you’ve probably had a chance to see the latest trailer for the new “rebooted” Star Trek movie coming out next May that begins with a teenaged James Tiberius Kirk getting in trouble with some Trekkian version of RoboCop and ends with our favorite salsa-eating Vulcan making like a rabbi. It’s just more fodder for my increasing fear that this new movie is going to suck donkey dick, but somebody else looks VERY UNHAPPY:
Don’t worry, Bill. You’ll always be Denny Crane to a whole generation of people, not to mention T.J. Hooker to another generation.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
