{"id":1913,"date":"2008-10-23T16:13:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2008-10-23T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:13:33","slug":"message-from-starfleet-captain-the-center-of-the-universe-has-been-discoveredand-youre-not-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1913","title":{"rendered":"Message From Starfleet Captain: The Center Of The Universe Has Been Discovered&#8230;And You&#8217;re Not It&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how it is that some &Uuml;ber heterosexuals just have this&#8230;overwhelming need&#8230;to project their cheapshit character flaws and emotional infirmities onto gays?&nbsp; Yeah&#8230;it&#8217;s like that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/gossip\/2008\/10\/22\/2008-10-22_william_shatner_goes_on_video_rant_over_.html\"><strong>William Shatner goes on video rant over George Takei wedding snub<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Shatner is aiming his phaser at his former &quot;Star Trek&quot; colleague George Takei, calling him &quot;sick&quot; and &quot;psychotic&quot; in a YouTube rant.<\/p>\n<p>Ticked off that Takei didn&#8217;t invite him to his recent California wedding, Shatner trashed the actor who played Mr. Sulu on the 1960s sci-fi series as if he were a villainous Klingon.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The whole thing makes me feel badly, poor man,&quot; Shatner said in the video. &quot;There is such a sickness there. It&#8217;s so patently obvious that there is a psychosis there. I don&#8217;t know what his original thing about me was.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He has continued to speak badly about me for all these years,&quot; Shatner continued. &quot;Obviously, hiding his homosexuality &#8211; talk about festering and not living the truth of your life and feeling badly about yourself &#8211; and being fearful somebody would find out about this terrible, terrible secret, so he thought.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Geeze Bill&#8230;Ego much?&nbsp; I like the response of Takei&#8217;s spouse, Brad Altman&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Altman later told the News that the pair &quot;definitely&quot; sent an invitation to Shatner through his manager, Larry Thompson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Maybe he thought it was junk mail,&quot; Altman said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ka<em>Pow<\/em>!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And in other news&#8230;at least one happy gay man out there managed to land an Altman.&nbsp; Not that I happen to know anyone by that name myself&#8230;precisely&#8230;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"199\" width=\"300\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/images\/george_and_brad_and_crew.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"326\" width=\"225\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/images\/george_and_brad-2.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nice work George.&nbsp; I&#8217;d be all smiles too&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how it is that some &Uuml;ber heterosexuals just have this&#8230;overwhelming need&#8230;to project their cheapshit character flaws and emotional infirmities onto gays?&nbsp; Yeah&#8230;it&#8217;s like that&#8230; William Shatner goes on video rant over George Takei wedding snub William Shatner is aiming his phaser at his former &quot;Star Trek&quot; colleague George Takei, calling him &quot;sick&quot; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,33,19],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-marriage","tag-pride","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}