{"id":1576,"date":"2005-09-03T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2005-09-03T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-03T15:50:00","slug":"1576","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Link-pharm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it true there are no new ideas? Everybody in Hollywood seems to think so: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire2005\/index.php?id=32117\">Writer Sues ABC Over <i>Lost<\/i><\/a>. (I can&#8217;t help but wonder if he doesn&#8217;t mean <i><strong>Land<\/strong> of the Lost<\/i>, another Sid &#038; Marty Kroft production. The idea we might see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&#038;hl=en&#038;q=Sleestack&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Sleestaks<\/a> on <i>Lost<\/i> this season both amuses and troubles me.)<\/li>\n<li>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/archives\/2005_08.php#006454\">Bookslut<\/a> (and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/content\/articles\/050829ta_talk_alford\">New Yorker<\/a>) comes the terrific word <i>esquivalience<\/i>, meaning &#8220;the willful avoidance of one&#8217;s official responsibilities&#8221; (which seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/08\/31\/_a_tale_of_two_photo.html\">all too sadly applicable lately<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>from Neil Gaiman, the first track of Lenny Henry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/track-one-of-fifty-six.asp\">reading of Gaiman&#8217;s upcoming <i>Anansi Boys<\/i><\/a>. I&#8217;m usually of two minds when it comes to audio books; there&#8217;s great pleasure to be had in them, but they&#8217;re <i>not<\/i> the same as reading the book yourself. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m a big enough fan of Gaiman to get both the book <i>and<\/i> the audio CD. On the other hand, Lenny Henry&#8217;s <i>really<\/i> good&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>also from Gaiman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2005\/09\/satanic-tomato.asp\">the Satanic tomato<\/a><\/li>\n<li>a couple of McSweeney&#8217;s lists &#8212; first, from <a href=\"http:\/\/maximumverbosit.blogspot.com\/\">Betty<\/a>, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/links\/lists\/22MikeRichardson-Bryan.html\">Klingon Fairy Tales<\/a>; and from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\">Bookslut<\/a>, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mcsweeneys.net\/links\/lists\/2KevinThoreson.html\">Not-So-Good Names for Murder Mysteries<\/a>. (My particular favorite is <i>Think Every Agatha Christie Novel, Only With Squirrels<\/i>. Mainly because the writer in me now <i>is<\/i> thinking it.)<\/li>\n<li>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbach.de\/ot\/index.html\">57 Optical Illusions &#038; Visual Phenomena<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fedexfurniture.com\/\">FedEx Furniture<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/09\/01\/robotic_space_pengui.html\">Robotic Space Penguin<\/a> &#8212; the last I share only because, c&#8217;mon, <i>Robotic Space Penguin<\/i>!<\/li>\n<li>from <a href=\"http:\/\/mightygirl.net\/2005_08_01_archive.html#112552481570123579\">Mighty Girl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jimwich\/sets\/796304\/\">faces on things<\/a><\/li>\n<li>from <a href=\"http:\/\/nalohopkinson.blogspot.com\/\">Nalo Hopkinson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/institute\/interiors\/index.html\">Interior Desecrations<\/a>, &#8220;a brutal examination of the unlovely, unattractive, unlivable and unforgivable homes of the 1970s.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/sleepingjpb\/\">Jeremy<\/a>, the very short and silly <a href=\"http:\/\/albinoblacksheep.com\/flash\/llama.php\">Llama Song<\/a><\/li>\n<li>an amusing <a href=\"http:\/\/marcussimon-cameraphone.buzznet.com\/user\/?id=1593946\">fortune cookie fortune<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.b3ta.com\/board\/5048264\">Pac-Man on trial<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link-pharm: Is it true there are no new ideas? Everybody in Hollywood seems to think so: Writer Sues ABC Over Lost. (I can&#8217;t help but wonder if he doesn&#8217;t mean Land of the Lost, another Sid &#038; Marty Kroft production. The idea we might see Sleestaks on Lost this season both amuses and troubles me.) &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1576\">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-1576","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\/1576"}],"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=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}