{"id":3679,"date":"2010-01-06T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T23:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2010-01-06T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:57:19","slug":"wednesday-various-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3679","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Movie popcorn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-sci-movie-popcorn19-2009nov19,0,4003634.story\">is really bad for you<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingnetflix.com\" title=\"Hacking Netflix\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Then again, so too, in another way, is <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/consumerist-investigation-best-buy-optimization-is-a-big-stupid-annoying-waste-of-money.html\">buying a computer at Best Buy<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cyncial-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>I can&#8217;t decide if this &#8212;<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">An upcoming film called <em>The Raven<\/em> posits a story about what would happen if Poe were faced with the very murders he wrote about. In the movie, at the end of Poe&#8217;s life, a serial killer challenges him to solve a series of killings inspired by Poe&#8217;s fiction.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">&#8212; is a really cool or really dumb idea. I&#8217;m leaning towards dumb, to be honest. <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/alan-thicke,36751\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=channel_dvd\">Random Roles interview with Alan Thicke<\/a>. He&#8217;s a man who can speak intelligently and honestly about his (surprisingly interesting and varied) career.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, who even knew there <em>was<\/em> a &#8220;murky world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canuxploitation.com\/\">Canadian &#8216;exploitation&#8217; cinema<\/a>&#8220;? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">&#8220;Now in the U.S. when a mommy and daddy love each other, they perform bipolar sexual intercourse and make a baby. Canadians, however, are a breed of hermaphrodites who reproduce by means of auto-insemination, thus eliminating the need for sex. This also explains why we don&#8217;t really have a film industry.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BJUgu9qr8wI\">Dave Foley<\/a> <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie popcorn is really bad for you. [via] Then again, so too, in another way, is buying a computer at Best Buy. [via] I can&#8217;t decide if this &#8212; An upcoming film called The Raven posits a story about what would happen if Poe were faced with the very murders he wrote about. In the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3679\">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":[82,21,104,14,9],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-canada","tag-food","tag-interviews","tag-movies","tag-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679"}],"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=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}