{"id":2944,"date":"2008-04-09T21:44:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T02:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2008-04-09T21:44:51","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T02:44:51","slug":"one-life-furnished-in-early-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"One life, furnished in early Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Last night, I attended a screening at Lincoln Center of <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt1018887\/\"><em>Dreams with Sharp Teeth<\/em><\/a>, the new documentary on writer Harlan Ellison. Ellison and the film&#8217;s director, Erik Nelson, were on hand after the show for a short Q&amp;A. (Longer on A than Q, in typical, cantankerous Ellison fashion.) The film is a great and often very funny portrait of Ellison as man and writer, flaws and all; and while it may not win him a legion of new fans &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/harlanellison.com\/booklist.htm\">the work itself<\/a> will have to serve to do that &#8212; it absolutely left me wanting to re-read some of his stories.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t get home until close to midnight &#8212; after the subway, the train ride, and the squirrelly cab driver who seemed overly excited that his radio station could pick up Cleveland a sports station &#8212; so I didn&#8217;t have a chance to dig out the old volumes. But if you&#8217;ve never read Ellison, do yourself a favor and check out some of his stories. And, if you&#8217;re able, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creatvdiff.com\/harlan_ellison.php\">the film<\/a>. There are lots of reasons &#8212; some good, some maybe not so much &#8212; why the man will be remembered, but it&#8217;s stories, the life&#8217;s work, that are truly remarkable.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I attended a screening at Lincoln Center of Dreams with Sharp Teeth, the new documentary on writer Harlan Ellison. Ellison and the film&#8217;s director, Erik Nelson, were on hand after the show for a short Q&amp;A. (Longer on A than Q, in typical, cantankerous Ellison fashion.) The film is a great and often &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2944\">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-2944","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\/2944"}],"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=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}