Damien Mulley

Via Metafilter. Two FX firms worked on redoing the FX for the original Star Trek series. They were both told they can fiddle with the fx but not the story of certain scenes from an episode called “The Doomsday Machine”. This is what they did:

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Trek fans are exploding all around the world as this is being watched. So pass it on.

My So-called life. Remember this TV series? I just managed to get a loan of this on DVD from a friend. Claire Danes. Jared Leto. Teenage drinking, drug taking, sex and very natural and realistic scenarios while also throwing in some shakespearean flare to the dialog. It only lasted one season but it was a damned fine show with some great music too. Brings back a little bit of nostalgia for me. Awww.

Egyptian blogger Alaa Seif al-Islam Abd al-Fattah has been released. C’mon Yahoo! Help Represistan to jail their bloggers so that Swampy and his mates can fire up their ethanol fueled iBooks and use the powers of the blog to reach out!

But being serious, getting jailed for blogging must suck. Great for traffic though.

As seen on Break.com

Damn. Rocket explodes. Made way more entertaining with dramatic music and the concerned voice-over. Still looks cool.

I mean this Hell. 100,000 visitors, well chuffed with that. Thanks to everyone who visited here and a special award goes to google for bringing so many people to mulley.net. Still no way as impressive as the million visits Gavin got.

But yeah, the movie rocked. From the creative team of the Three Colours trilogy. The little woman and her empty wine bottle showed up too.

Another fine threadless t-shirt is reprinted. Ordered.

Justus Khoncke ft. Meloboy – “Hot Love (Freiland/Frei)

Via Beirut recommending songs on Said the Gramophone.

Ze Frank does a Jarvis Style Dell Hell on Delta. The most expensive 600 bucks they never handed over. Begin the jihad.

Turkey supporters / Brazilian supporters.

Fiona De Londras has a post on Gay Pride up on IrishElection. Update 2: Suzy has a post too on this.

(Update 3: To clarify I thought Fiona’s post was wonderful and there should be more coming out stories for people to read and relate to.)

I’m totally cynical about gay pride parades. (See my views about the Pride parade in Cork last year.) To me it’s a once a year spectacle where all those afraid to leave their hairdressing salons and gay bars come out in force and let people know that gays exist. Like people didn’t know this. To me it’s quite insulting that the parades use the idea of furthering gay rights when it’s just another excuse to put on mascara and glitter and get drugged and drunk. How many that partake in those parades have ever actually campaigned for equal rights? Fiona is a tiny minority.

How many actually live in the world outside the clammy incestuous gay community? The parade seems more like a bunch of queers invading the straight world for a half day and then they’ll all disappear into the gay bars again by nightfall. They should be proud of who they are all the time and without the crutch of the drag queen in 10inch high heels. A community that demands integration but hides out in gay bars and refuses to mix with any of the rest of the community doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously. Though the Pride parades of nowadays seem to suggest they don’t want to be.

There’s a lot more to be done in regards to equality in this country yet I don’t see most of those attending the parades as the ones doing it.

EDIT: Hello to the QueerID folks that Declan sent this way.