{"id":3518,"date":"2009-07-25T12:30:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2009-07-24T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:37:16","slug":"thats-one-way-of-putting-it-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3518","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s one way of putting it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/ent\/movies\/feature\/2009\/07\/09\/bruno_rakoff\/?source=newsletter\">David Rakoff on <em>Br\u00c3\u00bcno<\/em><\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">There is no larger cultural point to making someone flinch by giving them a chocolate truffle you&#8217;ve stuffed with anchovies.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\">Gerry Canavan<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">I have to admit, I didn&#8217;t really love <em>Borat<\/em> all that much. Maybe it was partly the overblown hype, but while I guess I could appreciate the anything-for-a-laugh attitude and crazed commitment to character, I ultimately didn&#8217;t find it too funny. Then there came the questions of what was and wasn&#8217;t staged, who was lied to or portrayed nastily, and the whole thing just left an unpleasant taste in my mouth. I have no real desire to see <em>Br\u00c3\u00bcno<\/em>, which sounds like much of the same.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Rakoff on Br\u00c3\u00bcno: There is no larger cultural point to making someone flinch by giving them a chocolate truffle you&#8217;ve stuffed with anchovies. Via Gerry Canavan. I have to admit, I didn&#8217;t really love Borat all that much. Maybe it was partly the overblown hype, but while I guess I could appreciate the anything-for-a-laugh &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3518\">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":[],"tags":[14,9],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518"}],"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=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}