{"id":1572,"date":"2005-09-02T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2005-09-02T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T21:36:00","slug":"1572","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Ebert’s quote of the following exchange from A Sound of Thunder<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n

“What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that?”
“The molecular structure of brontosaurus blood.”
“No Way! Cool!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

reminded me of my favorite line from the positively awful<\/i> movie Congo<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n

“I’m not a pound of sugar, I’m a primatologist!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know why, but that line’s always stuck with me. I’ve tried very hard to block the rest of the film from my memory. (Ebert, of course, gave it three stars<\/a>, which I can’t agree with, but which I guess I understand. Most of the actors, particularly Ernie Hudson, were clearly having fun<\/i> making it, so that’s something.)<\/p>\n

I’m not really sure where I’m going with any of this.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Ebert’s quote of the following exchange from A Sound of Thunder: “What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that?”“The molecular structure of brontosaurus blood.”“No Way! Cool!” reminded me of my favorite line from the positively awful movie Congo: “I’m not a pound of sugar, I’m a primatologist!” I don’t know why, but that line’s always stuck with me. I’ve tried … 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-1572","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\/1572"}],"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=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}