{"id":11523,"date":"2014-10-14T22:07:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T02:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11523"},"modified":"2014-10-14T22:07:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T02:07:47","slug":"tuesday-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11523","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I amused myself earlier today:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Just got some spam addressed to &quot;Kale Idotrope,&quot; the zine&#39;s benevolent founder.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaleidotrope (@kaleidotrope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaleidotrope\/status\/522023623620841472\">October 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Prof. Idotrope is a reclusive man who has dedicated his vast wealth and influence, as one does, to publishing a quarterly genre zine.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaleidotrope (@kaleidotrope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaleidotrope\/status\/522025743287455744\">October 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Known as &quot;Kale&quot; to a select few, he sits in his ivory tower, cruelly demanding &quot;more silly horoscopes!&quot; or &quot;more fun stories about robots!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaleidotrope (@kaleidotrope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaleidotrope\/status\/522026321887916032\">October 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Should you encounter the fearsome Kale Idotrope, do not look him directly in the eyes, lest the curse of the were-editor be upon you too.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaleidotrope (@kaleidotrope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaleidotrope\/status\/522027207318052864\">October 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Some say the were-editor&#39;s curse is but a myth, an old wives&#39; poorly proofed tale, but they&#39;ve not heard the zine&#39;s howl upon the full moon.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaleidotrope (@kaleidotrope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaleidotrope\/status\/522027857242259456\">October 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>They&#39;ve not come to their senses, the blood-red trail of the copyeditor&#39;s pen scratched in corrective marks upon the page. *shudder*<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaleidotrope (@kaleidotrope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaleidotrope\/status\/522028865439690752\">October 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>If you encounter the grim visage of Kale Idotrope in the gathering shadows of autumn, be ye afraid. Only those who read his zine shall pass.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaleidotrope (@kaleidotrope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaleidotrope\/status\/522031850043105280\">October 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The zine itself is a surprising amount of fun for all that. You know, robots and magic and love stories. A great October read!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaleidotrope (@kaleidotrope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaleidotrope\/status\/522032223827288064\">October 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>And it&#39;s not *just* the were-editor&#39;s curse that&#39;s making me say that.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaleidotrope (@kaleidotrope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaleidotrope\/status\/522032398431952896\">October 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Other than that, the day was pretty much uneventful. I had a lousier than expected morning commute, when the subway station at Hunterspoint Avenue just wasn&#8217;t running at all, and I followed a mass exodus a few blocks to catch the E train. (That gets me in relatively close to the office, but a few blocks more, again, than my regular commute into Grand Central.) Then the evening commute was mildly awful again, when a bunch of trains (including mine) were canceled and combined with others. The train was packed, up and down the aisles, but I read my book and was only about ten minutes later than I usually am. Would that I could only say that I&#8217;d never had worse commutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I amused myself earlier today: Just got some spam addressed to &quot;Kale Idotrope,&quot; the zine&#39;s benevolent founder. &mdash; Kaleidotrope (@kaleidotrope) October 14, 2014 Prof. Idotrope is a reclusive man who has dedicated his vast wealth and influence, as one does, to publishing a quarterly genre zine. &mdash; Kaleidotrope (@kaleidotrope) October 14, 2014 Known as &quot;Kale&quot; &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11523\">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":[4,223,28,52],"class_list":["post-11523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-lirr","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523"}],"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=11523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11526,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions\/11526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}