I've gotten the chance to meet and interact with Mr. Takei a couple of times. He has always been a gentleman, a raconteur, and a genuinely nice guy (or good at faking all of the above).

All the happiness in the world to he and his husband!

*The other piece being Teresa's chance of getting to go home today.

I've got a cup of licorice tea that I can hoist. After that, I'm all about the whiskey.

I first met George Takei at a wedding of some mutual friends. I am delighted that he was finally able to have a wedding of his own.

He's such an awesome guy. I wish him & Brad all the best.

Slàinte!

Recently, I flew out to California to attend my exroommate's wedding. Taking advantage of the trip and father of the bride's ability to officiate, two couples attending as guests decided to get married.

The sort of thing where he'd be in a shop, at a cafe, and she'd walk by, or in. She didn't actually notice him.

One day he stepped out of a cafe and said hello.... asked her if she was stalking him. She said, "Good heavens no! I live up the block."

He treated her to lunch.

Mazel Tov.

(And in a world that seems determined to suck so much of the time, it's heartening to see a news story offering proof that in at least one respect, it doesn't suck quite so much now as it did only a few years ago.)

"Wherever, therefore, it has been established that it is shameful to be involved in sexual relationships with men, this is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice in the part of the governed." - Plato

Congratulations to the groom and ...groom! ;)

Yay for TWO things going right today!

Ob Firefly reference:

"That's like something out of science fiction."

"You're having this discussion with people from six continents on a global computer network."

"So?"

I'm frelling.

To the early days of a better nation!

It is also wonderful that the best man and matron-of-honour, respectively, were Chekhov and Uhura.

May they live long and prosper.

Anyway, congratulations to the happy couple.

May many others soon be able to share these rights and this joy.

My only regret is the increase in pitch of "That's Not Canon" in response to my George Takei/Tim Hardaway fic.

My closest link to George Takei is that he appeared on interstitial programming on the TV channel "The New VI" when I lived on Vancouver Island. Someone would be taped saying, "I'm So-and-So, out there on the New VI". Of course when he did his, he did the Vulcan salute. :-)

And it is pretty cool that the original Star Trek cast seem to have kept in touch. They all look so happy in the wedding photo!

What's the most useful way I can express my fanboyish elation at this, in a way that lets the world know that Takei's marriage, by simple virtue of its being a wonderful marriage, makes my own marriage yet more wonderful and joyous?

Also, congratulations to George and Brad!

When I was 14 or so I saw George at a rinky-dink local trek con, and ..... hang on. I was going to say something about how the polite, decent, magnanimous, good-natured, intelligent way he treated a little snotty fannish kid has made an impression on me. I was going to say something about how I felt that this adult, this celebrity was actually taking the mental energy to engage my fannishness, my love for the art he had made, rather than doing the bare minimum to make me go away happy. But on reflection, I can't turn this into an adjective in my own anecdote. I do not know an adjective good enough for George Takei. Instead, all I can give is my appreciation, my congratulations, for the happy couple.

Brad, George: I think you deserve every happiness, and may you have them all, even as-yet-unexplored strange new happinesses. Please have all the fun there is exploring them!

Even more remote: My dad worked on the Metro transit system installed in DC. He told a story of one of the engineers he worked with, named Kirk.

Kirk had a small boat he named the Enterprise. On occasion of a party, he saw George Takei, and introduced himself as "Captain Kirk, of the Enterprise". Apparently, George was amused, and took the time to hang out on the boat (and visited again when he came back to DC).

But mostly I'm glad to see two really nice people getting married. I don't know them personally but if you guys vouch for 'em, that's good enough for me.

Joy and long life to them!

Lifting a quiet drink;
For each man drinks the thing he loves
From tankard, glass or jug
Some drink it standing by the bar
Some seated on the rug
The upper class from thin-stemmed glass
The lower from a mug!