{"id":3626,"date":"2009-11-24T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T23:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2009-11-24T18:39:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T23:39:24","slug":"tuesday-various-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3626","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/arts\/article\/0,8599,1930971,00.html?iid=tsmodule\">Plagiarism Software Finds a New Shakespeare Play<\/a>. Well, maybe. Unless we can dig up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treehouse_of_Horror_III#Dial_.27Z.27_For_Zombies\">Zombie Shakespeare<\/a>, I think it&#8217;s still just conjecture. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of zombies, however, I&#8217;m not so sure I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/oct\/15\/zombies-vampires\"><em>The Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s contention<\/a> that:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">No zombie is ever going to be a pinup on some young girl&#8217;s wall. Just as Pattinson and all the Darcy-alikes will never find space on any teenage boy&#8217;s bedroom walls \u00e2\u20ac\u201c every inch will be plastered with revolting posters of zombies. There are no levels of Freudian undertone to zombies. Like boys, they&#8217;re not subtle. There&#8217;s nothing sexual about them, and nothing sexy either. It&#8217;s all about splatter and gore and entrails and our own fear and fascination with just how messy and vile and extraordinary our bodies are.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Which seems to be making all sorts of gender-based assumptions on some pretty shaky and limited evidence. I&#8217;d also suggest that the so-called subtlety of broody vampires like Edward Cullen is actually a pretty thin veneer over a shallow pond. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>] <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politedissent.com\/cstudies.html\">Dr. Scott&#8217;s Case Studies of Comic Book Medicine<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politedissent.com\/archives\/3870\">More here<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Two new ways of looking at things: the US highway system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/senexprime\/4055072020\/sizes\/o\/\">as a subway map<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>] and the Beatles&#8217; &#8220;Hey Jude&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/?p=15292\">as a flowchart<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, speaking of the Beatles, what if <a href=\"http:\/\/thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com\/\">the band never broke up<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\">via<\/a>]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hipsoda.com\/jazz\/gallery\/cappers.php?who=UnReality\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/images\/yokoono.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plagiarism Software Finds a New Shakespeare Play. Well, maybe. Unless we can dig up Zombie Shakespeare, I think it&#8217;s still just conjecture. [via] Speaking of zombies, however, I&#8217;m not so sure I agree with The Guardian&#8216;s contention that: No zombie is ever going to be a pinup on some young girl&#8217;s wall. Just as Pattinson &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3626\">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":[33,16,20,86,50,5,9,11,72,10,24],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-beatles","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-computers","tag-funny","tag-health","tag-pop-culture","tag-publishing","tag-vampires","tag-various","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626"}],"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=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}