{"id":3113,"date":"2008-08-15T22:31:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T02:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2008-08-15T22:32:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T02:32:47","slug":"thoughts-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3113","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts, links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>    <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-isb.com\/?p=505\">Chris Sims on the Joker<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>From the start, he&#8217;s an amazing visual, and it&#8217;s a complete inversion of the classic hero and villain formula. Batman was inspired as much by Count Dracula and the Shadow as he was heroes like Zorro, with a costume designed to frighten, but he&#8217;s still <em>the good guy<\/em>. The one in the bright colors with the big smile who does magic tricks&#8230; <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> the one you need to watch out for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>And speak  of the devil &#8212; &#8220;The devil! The devil!&#8221; &#8212; here&#8217;s the Joker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2008\/08\/13\/lol-the-joker-as-an-even-creepier-ronald-mcdonald\/\">as Ronald McDonald<\/a>. Why so serious? You want fries with that?<\/li>\n<li>Question: is AOL really still &#8220;a leading ISP&#8221; anywhere outside of <em>The New York Times<\/em> crossword puzzle? I know it&#8217;s a handy three-letter word, but c&#8217;mon, Will Shortz, move with the times.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/interview\/dave_filoni?utm_source=from_tag\">AV Club interviews<\/a> the director of <em>Star Wars: Clone Wars<\/em> &#8220;about making George Lucas&#8217; world cartoonish.&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t sound like too hard a job to me, frankly.<\/li>\n<li>In fact, the best, it seems, that can be said for <em>Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/em> is what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/cinema\/star_wars_the_clone_wars?utm_source=from_tag\">Tasha Robinson says here<\/a> &#8212; that &#8220;it&#8217;s better than an unimportant filler plot arc in an already-completed story has any right to be,&#8221; but that that&#8217;s not saying much.<\/li>\n<li>Seriously, if you&#8217;re going to send out simultaneous story submissions &#8212; against what&#8217;s expressly written in the guidelines &#8212; at least send them as separate e-mails. I&#8217;m going to chalk this one up to inexperience.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Sims on the Joker: From the start, he&#8217;s an amazing visual, and it&#8217;s a complete inversion of the classic hero and villain formula. Batman was inspired as much by Count Dracula and the Shadow as he was heroes like Zorro, with a costume designed to frighten, but he&#8217;s still the good guy. The one &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3113\">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-3113","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\/3113"}],"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=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}