Invisible things have changed. The permalink format is now simpler, the gallery is now made up of smaller files (you can’t tell — I just changed the file format) and I’ve upgraded Wordpress. Yay!

George Takei, meanwhile, has been preparing for his marriage — I recommend that you simply go to GT.com and check out all the links, and if you live in California please vote against the anti-marriage amendment — and appearing on strange shows. (Link to AfterElton.com writeup.)

After 21 years together, George Takei and Brad Altman are finally getting married. Congratulations, George and Brad!

On a personal note, as a gay Californian myself, I would like to express my deep gratitude to the state Supreme Court for their conscientious work, and to all the people and groups that have struggled to make it possible for people like George — and me — to experience this “dream within a dream” that has for so long been denied to us.

George Takei turns 71 today. Hope you have a good one, George!

I was contacted today with a request to link to Starbase Adran, and after checking out their truly impressive collection of material I decided I had to. They’ve thus been added to the links page, and I encourage you to check ‘em out.

Also updated “about this site” as the ages listed were both a year off. More news as it comes in.

Spotted this article in my daily RSS grab: Group Renames Asteroid for George Takei.  (Cooler version of the same headline: First Gay Asteroid.)

Site changes today:

1) Added a gallery of screencaps from Star Trek New Voyages “World Enough And Time”

2) Modified images in movie galleries, removing or reducing the “black bars” above and below the images

3) Modified site structure — may break links to galleries or specific pictures.

4) Added a gallery of John Lim as young Sulu in Star Trek New Voyages “World Enough And Time” because, while this is strictly speaking a site about George Takei, Lim’s an awesome Sulu.

Star Trek New Voyages “World Enough and Time” is now available for download. Initially, it was available only as a stream and the server was rapidly overloaded, but the torrent is now up. Yay!

On AfterElton.com there’s a lovely blog post about GT’s appearance at the HRC’s SF Gala, where he received the HRC Equality Award:

“Saturday in San Francisco with George”

Link from GT.com: GT’s up for the SyFy Genre Awards’ “Best Special Guest (Television)” award for his role on Heroes.  Personally, I’d've chosen a different episode, but that’s just me.

Surprise! Bet you weren’t expecting an upgrade. The fact is, my old method of updating the site was so complicated that I wasn’t updated, so I decided to get fancy and put in a CMS. This means, if you’re watching the site via RSS, you’re going to want to change the feed URL in your RSS reader to http://twobar.com/sulu/?feed=rss2. And, of course, if you’ve got a specific page bookmarked, you’ll need to update the bookmark. This site is in beta, which means that I’ve fixed everything I found that was broken, but there may be things I haven’t found yet — if you spot a problem, let me know.

Well, with that over, to news, which is sort of old because I was doing other things: Jake kindly wrote to tell me that George Takei was the editors’ choice over at AOL Television for , as he puts it, “the coolest guest star to appear on a television” in the 2006-2007 television season. Meanwhile, I got confirmation that both George Takei and Leonard Nimoy will be at the HRC’s San Francisco Gala in July.