{"id":980,"date":"2003-05-12T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2003-05-12T12:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/12\/fuzzy_elf\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:46:11","slug":"fuzzy_elf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/12\/fuzzy_elf\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuzzy Elf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>And another news brief<\/strong> from the Department of Stupid Ways to Invalidate Stupid Plot Developements in Comic Books:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"My favorite X-Man, except for Kitty Pryde\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncannyxmen.net\/db\/spotlight\/showquestion.asp?faq=10&amp;fldAuto=70&amp;page=8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/nightcrawler.jpg\" alt=\"Nightcrawler\" width=\"210\" height=\"400\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><a title=\"My favorite X-Man, except for Kitty Pryde\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncannyxmen.net\/db\/spotlight\/showquestion.asp?faq=10&amp;fldAuto=70\">Nightcrawler<\/a> never went to the seminary and got ordained as a priest. He only THOUGHT he went to the seminary and got ordained as a priest. It seems as if his mind was being tampered with by some crackpot anti-mutant religious organization. And since it apparently never REALLY came up in conversation ever with anyone, they all just found out and said, \u201cDuh, you were never a priest, blue dude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On a similar note, I the only thing I really minded about <i><a title=\"At least it had Kitty in it\" href=\"http:\/\/x2-movie.com\">X2<\/a><\/i> (which for the most oart I thought was lots of fun, with plenty of nods thrown in to the nerds of us out there who care about whether or not the government is after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.users.xeroanime.com\/~handbook\/jklm\/franklin.htm\">Franklin Richards<\/a>) was <a title=\"Alan Cumming seemed like a good idea at first, but it just didn't work for me\" href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/EGallery?source=ss&amp;group=0290334&amp;photo=Ss\/0290334\/X2-140.jpg&amp;path=pgallery&amp;path_key=Cumming,%20Alan\">Nightcrawler<\/a>. The teleportation effects were great, but the character had nothing of what I always like about Nightcrawler the wiry, wise-cracking swashbuckler with the mischievous smile and furry skin, the one who always seemed curiously sexy. The movie&#8217;s nervous, Jesus-freaky version with the goony pants and the brandings instead of the fuzz just left me cold, when not cringing in dismay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And another news brief from the Department of Stupid Ways to Invalidate Stupid Plot Developements in Comic Books: Nightcrawler never went to the seminary and got ordained as a priest. He only THOUGHT he went to the seminary and got ordained as a priest. It seems as if his mind was being tampered with by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/12\/fuzzy_elf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fuzzy Elf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics","category-ultracultural"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76933,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/76933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}