Considering Star Trek actor George Takei’s recent gay antics, perhaps wrestling references are inappropriate.

At any rate, I continue to marvel at William Shatner’s insane rantings regarding the spat between himself and Takei - as I understand it, tensions have existed between the pair for years, but Takei’s recent wedding seems to have put a spark to the powder-keg. Ever since Shatner’s invitation (or lack thereof, depending on who you ask) to said wedding, Shatner’s been on a warpath to discredit Takei, and now it seems he’s going to vent his spleen on his new talk show Raw Nerve.

“George has been mean to me for a long time — I mean, decades and decades,” Shatner insisted. “I’m not mad at him. I’m just annoyed that he keeps saying mean things about me … I just wish he’d stop.”

Of course, Takei may not have any reason to stop his alleged bad behavior, what with Shatner taking new swipes at him in the form of old “Star Trek” stories.

Shatner reminisced about one exchange he shared with Takei after learning the Sulu character would get his own ship. “I remember saying to him, ‘George, you’re going to be on another starship and all the action takes place on our starship; aren’t you going to be missing that?’” Shatner recalled. “He said, ‘Yes, but I’ll have my own starship.’ I didn’t want to remind him that this was fiction and not reality. I didn’t want to destroy his world.

On the off chance that Takei’s world remained intact after hearing that, Shatner then offered his former friend the chance to hash it out on his talk show.

Like, omigod, dude - let it go. One of you two is being seriously obsessive - and it’s not the gay Asian guy.

As much as we report people kicking the bucket around here, I thought it would be nice to mention someone’s birthday for a change. Lost actress Yunjin Kim turns 35 today.

My wife keeps telling me that Kim reminds her of someone she attended college with, which always prompts the reply ‘So - do you still have her phone number?‘ At which point I usually find myself sleeping in the living room.

Uhm - at any rate, happy birthday Yunjin!

This interview with Star Trek alumnus William Shatner (and since he was dis-invited to appear in J.J. Abrams Star Trek, I suppose we can refer to him thusly…) gets all passive-aggressive on George Takei about his former co-star’s recent wedding. Invited or not, Shatner clearly has some deep-seated issues with Takei.

He rails on about Takei’s decision to come out of the closet (’Who cares?’ says Shatner), about the supposedly fabricated ‘problems’ between himself and Takei that the latter has written about at some length (Shatner claims he barely knows Takei despite their nearly 40-year working association), and even offers some armchair psychoanalysis on Takei, whom he regards as a singularly twisted individual.

Worth a watch (even if the video is obviously pro-Shatz).

Good Lord, this sounds awesome. A 50-part Bruce Lee television series called The Legend of Bruce Lee featuring Chan Kwok Kuen (aka Danny Chan, the Bruce Lee lookalike from Shaolin Soccer), starts Sunday on Chinese network CCTV.

Can’t wait til it hits the BitTorrent trackers!

“We’ve only seen the glorious side of Bruce Lee - he comes out all guns blazing, his films are entertaining. But very few people know what injuries he suffered and what grievances he suffered,” Danny Chan said, noting the series even reveals that Lee was afraid of cockroaches.

The 33-year-old actor, whose best known work is Stephen Chow’s “Kung Fu Hustle” and “Shaolin Soccer,” makes up for his lack of star power with his uncanny resemblance to Lee with his thick eyebrows and slender body.

Lee’s message of Chinese strength in movies like “The Chinese Connection” and “Return of the Dragon” also matches that of the Chinese government.

“Lee had strength, agility, pride, intelligence, not to mention charisma to burn, which coupled with the pro-Chinese rhetoric in his films have made him a potent symbol for the powerful new China that is now rising,” said Michael Berry, a professor in contemporary Chinese cultural studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Yes, reality television has all the intellectual value of competitive nose-picking, but fans of the pro-gaming scene might be interested in checking out tonight’s debut of Survivor: Gabon, featuring 22-year old Super Smash Brothers champ Ken Hoang. And lots of hot chicks, if that’s your thang…

Personally, I’m still chuffed that Malay contestant Yau-man Chan didn’t make the cut a couple years back. He was the muthafuckin’ man…

Survivor: Gabon premieres tonight at 8pm.

FUNimation is gobbling up anime properties left and right, which honestly I don’t have a problem with as they have been putting out some seriously kick-ass releases lately. The latest toon to disappear into FUNimation’s gaping maw is Gonzo’s Kaze no Stigma, directed by Cardcaptor Sakura director Jun’ichi Sakata. Here’s the synopsis straight from FUNimation’s announcement.

Kazuma is a descendent of an ancient clan skilled in the magical Fire Arts. Unfortunately for him, the gift seems to have skipped a generation. Defeated by his younger, female cousin, Ayano, in a battle to become the clan’s successor, Kazuma is exiled with only the smoldering burn of failure to keep him company. But now he’s back, risen from the ashes and armed with a powerful new mojo that’s sure to fan the flames of the family rivalry. The cooler he gets – the hotter she burns, and when Wind and Fire collide, Tokyo is caught in the eye of the storm.

…and if you act quick you might be able to check out a few episodes at YouTube before the IP police start issuing takedown orders.

If you’re sitting around with nothing to do tonight, you might want to tune into ABC Family…or at least fire up your TiVo. ‘Samurai Girl‘, the adaptation of Carrie Asai’s young-adult series of the same name airs tonight, Saturday, and Sunday at 8pm.

This has every reason to be totally ass-tacular, but Middleman turned out to be pretty good, and based on some early critics’ reactions posted at Aint-It-Cool-News last night, it actually sounds kinda promising.

I don’t really watch Iron Chef, or its’ American spin-off Iron Chef America, anymore. Really, once you’ve seen a good dozen or so episodes, there’s just not much more to see - although the end products are uniformly fascinating, if frequently unappetizing (stay away from the ice-cream machine!)

That said, I was happy to see that Iron Chef stalwart Masaharu Morimoto has been pegged as a Guest of Honor at this year’s New York Anime Festival, joining such illustrious figures as Yoshitaka Amano, Rie Tanaka, and fellow culinary enthusiasts Notorious MSG.

Fun will be had by all, I’m sure. I am prompted to ponder, however - what are Morimoto-san’s favorite anime series?

The NYAF takes place Sept 26 - 28 in New Yawk City. Be there - or dont….

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from running this site over the last seven years’, it’s that no matter how much I think I know about something, there’s always someone out there whose levels of obsessive compulsion dwarf mine.

If that someone is you, you might be interested in an upcoming episode of MTV’s ‘True Life‘, which will focus on nerd-dom in all its’ glory. I don’t know anything about ‘True Life’, but if Grant Morrison is getting namedropped on MTV, it can’t be all bad.

Do you hope to one day be the next Jim Lee or Grant Morrison, and are willing to pursue that dream at all costs? And does your family and loved ones look at your lifestyle like you’re crazy?

If so, then MTV’s award-winning documentary series “True Life” wants to hear from you!

However, I get the queasy feeling that the episode, which is tentatively titled ‘True Life: I’m a Fanboy‘ will probably air under the title ‘True Life: I’m Never Getting Laid‘. Only time will tell…

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