{"id":3621,"date":"2009-11-19T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T23:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2009-11-19T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T21:42:51","slug":"thursday-various-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3621","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Following up on these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creepypasta.net\/200.html\">200 creepy stories about Calgary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mersipan.livejournal.com\/\">Meredith<\/a> has been posting similar stories for Washington, DC. I particularly like <a href=\"http:\/\/mersipan.livejournal.com\/309915.html\">#4<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Ooh! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/News\/2009\/11\/ray-bradbury-to-develop-miniseries.html\">Ray Bradbury is developing a new television miniseries<\/a>!<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>This whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6707474.html\">Harlequin Horizons &#8220;self-publishing imprint&#8221; business<\/a> strikes me as deeply weird. It&#8217;s like, &#8220;We won&#8217;t buy your novel&#8230;but here&#8217;s how you can pay <em>us<\/em> to print it!&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;[T]here is &#8216;no freestanding constitutional right not to be framed.'&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=120069519\">Uh oh<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, a really excellent interview <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth\">with Cormac McCarthy<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/mumpsimus.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"The Mumpsimus\">via<\/a>]:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Well, I don&#8217;t know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they&#8217;re really good. And there&#8217;s just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that&#8217;s the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there&#8217;s going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don&#8217;t care whether it&#8217;s art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on these 200 creepy stories about Calgary, Meredith has been posting similar stories for Washington, DC. I particularly like #4. Ooh! Ray Bradbury is developing a new television miniseries! This whole Harlequin Horizons &#8220;self-publishing imprint&#8221; business strikes me as deeply weird. It&#8217;s like, &#8220;We won&#8217;t buy your novel&#8230;but here&#8217;s how you can pay &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3621\">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":[71,82,83,6,11,17,10,39,12],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bradbury","tag-canada","tag-legal","tag-politics","tag-publishing","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-weird","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621"}],"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=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}