{"id":2671,"date":"2007-08-19T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2007-08-19T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T18:25:00","slug":"2671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2671","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Linkpharm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feeling nostalgic for old British sitcoms you&#8217;ve never heard of? Then try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvcomedyclassics.com\/default.aspx\">TV Comedy Classics<\/a>. These are obscure enough that I&#8217;m wondering not just about the &#8220;classic&#8221; or &#8220;comedy&#8221; part, but also whether these were ever on TV. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/\" title=\"TV Squad\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The next time you&#8217;re at the ballpark and your favorite player hits one into the stands, think before you try to catch it: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mises.org\/archives\/006959.asp\">it could be taxable income<\/a> in your hands there. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Want to travel out of state or to a national park? You soon might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/08\/16\/real.id\/index.html\">need a passport<\/a> for that. [<a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\" title=\"Making Light\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Wondering what <i>Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s Toy Story 3<\/i> might look like? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/art\/0730,bolling,77302,13.html\">Ruben Bolling shows all.<\/a> It&#8217;s funny, but the use of commas is pretty liberal by McCarthy&#8217;s standards. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/\" title=\"Return of the Reluctant\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll admit, I haven&#8217;t actually read all of Adam Gopnik&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/books\/2007\/08\/20\/070820crbo_books_gopnik\">piece on Philip K. Dick<\/a> in <i>The New Yorker<\/i>, but passages like &#8220;Since genre writing can support only one genius at a time &#8212; and no genre writer ever becomes just a good writer; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all prophet or all hack &#8212; the guy is usually resented by his peers and their partisans even as the establishment hails him. No one hates the rise of Elmore Leonard so much as a lover of Ross Macdonald.&#8221; are more than a little worrisome. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/\" title=\"Shaken &#038; Stirred\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linkpharm: Feeling nostalgic for old British sitcoms you&#8217;ve never heard of? Then try TV Comedy Classics. These are obscure enough that I&#8217;m wondering not just about the &#8220;classic&#8221; or &#8220;comedy&#8221; part, but also whether these were ever on TV. [via] The next time you&#8217;re at the ballpark and your favorite player hits one into the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2671\">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-2671","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\/2671"}],"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=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}