{"id":1381,"date":"2004-10-03T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2004-10-03T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-03T18:29:00","slug":"1381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

A few things from this morning’s New York Times<\/i> (registration or BugMeNot login<\/a> required). First, from an interview with Wynton Marsalis<\/a> in the Magazine<\/i>:<\/p>\n

My father used to say, “If you want to be different, you got to do something different.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[snip]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You seem fairly content for an artist.<\/i>
When I’m sad, I’m happy that I can be sad.
Which means what, exactly?<\/i>
It’s the blues. It’s like when they say, I am going down the road to put my head on the tracks, and when the train comes along, I am going to snatch my full head back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Randy Cohen, the Ethicist, in the same issue<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Incidentally, if there’s a prize for pet marketing, I’d like to nominate whoever changed “Mongolian desert rat” to “gerbil.” That’s even better than “compassionate conservative.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And finally, from an ad in the Arts & Leisure<\/a> section:<\/p>\n

“If you’re a fan of Hilary Duff, you’ll love every minute of ‘Raise Your Voice,’ because nearly every minute of the film is about her…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not exactly a ringing endorsement, that. Sort of along the lines of “Crap — for people who like crap in big doses!”<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few things from this morning’s New York Times (registration or BugMeNot login required). First, from an interview with Wynton Marsalis in the Magazine: My father used to say, “If you want to be different, you got to do something different.” [snip] You seem fairly content for an artist.When I’m sad, I’m happy that I … 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":[238],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"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=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}