Today's Mighty Oak


Alright, let’s see what we have today.  First up, a high school valedictorian was thrown out of his house for being gay, and raised money so he could attend college, all while being homeless his senior year.

Jake Shears is back with a new single.  it gets more fun as it goes along:

Someone put together an Iron Man tribute video.  He was always my dad’s favorite character growing up, so this was neat to watch!

Topher Grace edited the three Hobbit movies down to one, two hour one.  Yes to all of this:

Grace told IndieWire that he undertook the ambitious fan edit project in part to unwind from his newest role in Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. Grace indicated that he felt stressed from having to portray white supremacist David Duke, and diving into Tolkien’s cinematic world was something of a version of therapy. (He also shared his belief that The Hobbit shouldn’t have been so greatly expanded upon for the big screen in the first place

The Aquaman trailer looks really good, and it’s great to have a minority director at the help and in the lead role!

And the next Harry Potter movie has a new trailer:

Leslie Jones’ latest live twitter was Infinity Wars, and it did not disappoint.

Jeff Session’s new “religious liberty taskforce’ is just a thinly veiled anti-queer commission.  And surprise, it’s being spearheaded by an anti-gay activist group.

A Buffy reboot was announced, but it’s actually more of a continuation, just twenty years later.  How this will fit in with the comics, we’ll have to see.

That’s it for today, have a great one!



Sooooooo, I’ve been incredibly sick as of late.  But, always looking for the silver lining, I learned what I’m allergic to by being prescribed a massive dose of it!  Yay!

So the CMS I use gave this article the same number as my college mailbox number, so exciting!  So anyway, here’s some fun things for you:

Here’s the “official” 140 character description of LOST:

Check out this cool ad, although I’m honestly more impressed with a cell phone in a wooden shell:

I saw this on my phone, and it’s not circulating around Facebook.  Mad Elf is amazing (and really high ABV), but I don’t know how much of a case Troegs’ has.  Guess we will see.

Zombies are now walking on the Wisconsin State Capital in protest of Scott Walker!  Check it out:

Listen, the first one of my friends who has kid around 6 or so (that’s just a guess), has to buy them this shirt:

No exceptions.

Well, this is infuriating.  Also, alarmingly scary that over 30 states have laws like this.

So up in Maine, the Republican governor was so incensed by a mural depicting the labor in his state, he had it removed (which I guess is now angering the people who put up the money for it, but that’s a legal battle for another day).  I think this is a fantastic way of protesting (it’s not a bad mural, although I’m not a huge fan of the colors used or art style, but hey, that’s not the point):

Infuriated by the police blaming the victim in sexual assault cases, in Toronto, a “Slut Walk” was organized, with over 2,000 people attending.

Copyranter wrote about a previous Hot Wheels installation, putting two giant kids on the side of the highway, watching the road like it was their track.  This one is better though, and it’s been picked up by a lot of sites:

The giant news that has overtaken my twitter and Facebook feeds is that the next Batman will be doing some filming here in Pittsburgh, probably in July.  Nerdist has a great article about the inevitable reboot that is set to happen after this third movie.  Go over and read “Reboot Rage.”

Also, did you know that there is a rise in the need of exorcists?  Who knew?  What can’t the Internet do?

Okay, story time!  First watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMpiCtSqrSQ

First, I have to mention that one of the comments on YouTube brings up a good question, what about pajamas?  But anyway, we had a group that was using the conference center that I was helping to get a quote and put together their permit for their stay.  They actually split off from another group that used the same facility because the original group decided that women were in fact allowed to wear pants.  As they were explaining their new name to me (so we could get all the paperwork straightened out), they were trying to pull me into the theological discussion.  I quickly left under the guise of putting their check in the safe and drawing up their permit.  Good gravy.

That’s it for now, hopefully I’ll continue to feel better, catch everybody later!

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