Brokeback: The Final Frontier

UPDATE: Unfortunately, this video has also been taken off YouTube. I considered just deleting this post but decided to leave it up as a testament to the change that is now happening since YouTube was sold - and also since YouTube has now hit the mainstream and everyone who reads regular newspapers has now heard about it. My take on it is: creativity is being stifled now that the mainstream has moved in. Let us see what happens to the rest of the web - and to blogs. Will it all just become a bit marketing mall dominated by messages that businesses and corporations want to disseminate while the creative efforts of individuals are shut down?

Last Monday’s film made me nostalgic for the good old Star Trek days of Brylcreemed hair and polyester tunics. So I went in search of Kirk and Spock - and found this.

The truth at last about their friendship…

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There’s something about Brokeback Mountain that has inspired hundreds of mashups to bring out the underlying homoerotic theme in many geek sci-fi movies. A few months back, I showed Brokeback to the Future on Film Mondays - no doubt there’s a Brokeback Star Wars somewhere out there…