{"id":2649,"date":"2018-02-28T21:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T02:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2018-02-28T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T02:06:56","slug":"the-sorceress-points-at-you-and-a-beam-of-very-sticky-light-bursts-out-of-her-finger-it-strikes-you-and-you-suddenly-feel-very-very-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/the-sorceress-points-at-you-and-a-beam-of-very-sticky-light-bursts-out-of-her-finger-it-strikes-you-and-you-suddenly-feel-very-very-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sorceress points at you and a beam of very sticky light bursts out of her finger. It strikes you and you suddenly feel very, very normal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, let&#8217;s see what we have today, first up, amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/wooden-nintendo-cartridges-handmade-fan-art\/\">wood-carved nintendo cartridges<\/a>!\u00a0 That you can really play!<\/p>\n<p>Two Political Junkies <a href=\"http:\/\/2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/fixed-it-for-you.html\">fixed a recent Post-Gazette headline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Pittsburgh, there is going to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/tom-hanks-mister-rogers-neighborhood-you-are-my-friend\/\">Mr. Rogers biopic<\/a>!\u00a0 I am so, so excited about this!<\/p>\n<p>My favorite Super Bowl ads were from Tide:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1098\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6gGXnE1Dbh0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Eagles flocked to a bar called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsports.com\/2018\/2\/5\/16968748\/super-bowl-eagles-fans-gay-bar\">&#8216;The Eagle&#8217; due to its name<\/a>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a hint, if there&#8217;s a bar named &#8216;The Eagle,&#8217; chances are it&#8217;s a gay leather bar.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the Super Bowl, <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/deadpool-live-tweeted-super-bowl\/\">Deadpool live tweeted it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of Ryan Reynolds, as much as I&#8217;m against the remake, <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/ryan-reynolds-clue-remake-deadpool\/\">he will be staring in the new Clue<\/a>, which I think he&#8217;ll do well in.<\/p>\n<p>An amazingly cute and heartwarming story of a woman who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2018\/01\/gay-bar-mississippi\/\">called a gay bar after her son came out to her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new Harry Potter movies are hiding the fact that Dumbledore is supposed to be gay, <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/fantastic-beasts-no-gay-dumbledore\/\">and it&#8217;s bullshit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is going to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/harry-potter-cruise\/\">Harry Potter cruise<\/a> however.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympics may be over, but this video will be with us forever:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1098\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LGJoElM9A7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m calling bullshit on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2018\/02\/gay-characters-star-wars\/\">the &#8216;gay Porgs&#8217; in Star Wars<\/a>.\u00a0 The fact that this is a multibillion dollar franchise so embedded into our culture and we get gay background animals if we squint and know some obscure fact, instead of actual representation is humiliating.\u00a0 LucasFilm and Disney can do better.<\/p>\n<p>Bermuda has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2018\/02\/07\/bermuda-uk-appointed-governor-approves-repeal-sex-marriage-replaced-domestic-partners-law\/\">rescinded their marriage equality<\/a>, much like California did with Prop 8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2018\/02\/trulia-lgbt\/\">Trulia now shows you the rights you&#8217;ll have as a queer person<\/a> when looking at homes on the market.\u00a0 Our rights are a patchwork and it can be really confusing remembering what rights I have where, so this is a really nice feature, but so sad that it&#8217;s needed.<\/p>\n<p>A California court has sided with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2018\/02\/06\/california-court-rules-anti-gay-baker\/\">an anti-gay baker<\/a>.\u00a0 I will remind you that this is not really about cake.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about basic human dignity.\u00a0 And the fact that I have to worry about what hospital and doctors I see, because they can turn me away.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about the fact that funeral homes can turn loved ones away all by citing religious freedom.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>And research has showed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2018\/01\/25\/trump-effect-lgbt-acceptance-drops-new-poll\/\">acceptance of the queer community has actually dropped<\/a>.\u00a0 Less than half of the adults surveyed are comfortable with my existence.\u00a0 Neat.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, that&#8217;s it for now, go back and watch those Olympians strip down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, let&#8217;s see what we have today, first up, amazing wood-carved nintendo cartridges!\u00a0 That you can really play! Two Political Junkies fixed a recent Post-Gazette headline. Speaking of Pittsburgh, there is going to be a Mr. Rogers biopic!\u00a0 I am so, so excited about this! My favorite Super Bowl ads were from Tide: Philadelphia Eagles flocked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[221,2581,2210,2579,2162,2403,2572,2322,2573,2569,407,2567,2565,2568,1396,2574,2563,101,1645,2570,2578,85,1778,568,348,2576,229,2577,1099,37,2571,62,2575,316,2566,2564,2580,2562],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ad","tag-baker","tag-bakery","tag-bermuda","tag-california","tag-civil-rights","tag-clue","tag-cosmo","tag-cruise","tag-deadpool","tag-disney","tag-eagle","tag-fred-rogers","tag-gay-bar","tag-gun","tag-gus-kenworthy","tag-handicraft","tag-harry-potter","tag-leather","tag-live-tweet","tag-lucasfilm","tag-marriage-equality","tag-mr-rogers","tag-nintendo","tag-olympics","tag-pick-up-line","tag-pittsburgh","tag-porgs","tag-post-gazette","tag-prop-8","tag-ryan-reynolds","tag-star-wars","tag-strip","tag-super-bowl","tag-tide","tag-toxic-masculinity","tag-trulia","tag-woodcarving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}