{"id":10099,"date":"2013-02-17T21:49:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T02:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10099"},"modified":"2013-02-17T21:49:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T02:49:40","slug":"the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10099","title":{"rendered":"The weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday, I gave blood at the local library. Or, rather, in the bloodmobile parked outside the library. This was my first time donating inside one these things, and while I don’t have any pictures, it was similar to this one<\/a>, only a little smaller and a little more cramped, especially with everyone wearing winter coats and all. <\/p>\n

Afterward, I cam home and re-watched Almost Famous<\/i>. It’s altogether I napped during a small chunk of it. That’s pretty much the highlights of my Saturday.<\/p>\n

Today, my writing group was cancelled, thanks to car troubles — not mine — so I went and had what turned out to be a really great sushi lunch. I’m new to this idea that raw fish can actually taste good — although I usually do still stick to the rolls — but today’s tasted very<\/i> good indeed.<\/p>\n

Then I came home, did a little housecleaning, and shredded some old documents while I watched episodes of Rubicon<\/i>. I liked it for the brief moment it was on TV back in 2010, then bought the season, then just let it sit there. But today I’ve watched a third of it, and I’m still liking it, so I’m not regretting the purchase. I can see why it didn’t click with viewers, and nowadays it would probably fare even worse on AMC. (I like The Walking Dead<\/i>, except when I don’t, but it’s hard not to argue that it’s distracted AMC from the path it seemed to be on before this. Even its other powerhouses, Mad Men<\/i> and Breaking Bad<\/i> seem a little like legacy shows that don’t quite fit the new model.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I like Rubicon<\/i>, even if it is, by design, slow. But I figured, political thrillers don’t necessarily age well. (Even if I remember being pleasantly surprised by The Parallax View<\/i> a few years ago, and that was definitely one of this show’s models. And some forty years old.) Time to give it a shot.<\/p>\n

That, plus an incredible amount of freezing cold wind, was my Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I gave blood at the local library. Or, rather, in the bloodmobile parked outside the library. This was my first time donating inside one these things, and while I don’t have any pictures, it was similar to this one, only a little smaller and a little more cramped, especially with everyone wearing winter coats … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,14,28,17,114],"class_list":["post-10099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-health","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-tv","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}