{"id":3712,"date":"2010-01-21T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2010-01-21T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:30:16","slug":"thursday-various-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3712","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/20\/white-basketball\/\">A whites-only basketball league<\/a>? That&#8217;s actually sort of laughably repugnant, to the point where you just assume it has to be a hoax. &#8220;We don&#8217;t hate black people. We just wish there wasn&#8217;t so many of &#8217;em, and they weren&#8217;t such gosh darn awful people.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Bloomsbury <a href=\"http:\/\/ellen-datlow.livejournal.com\/242578.html\">seems to have a problem with black people<\/a>, too, at least on their book covers. You&#8217;d think they&#8217;d have learned, after all the controversy <a href=\"http:\/\/justinelarbalestier.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/the-new-cover\/\">over Justine Larbalestier&#8217;s YA novel <i>Liar<\/i><\/a> last year, but apparently not.\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/smallbeerpress.com\/not-a-journal\/2010\/01\/21\/bloomsbury-oh-bloomsbury\/\">Small Beer Press suggests<\/a>, &#8220;Your task this week: buy a book with a person of color on the cover.&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/?p=16088\">Anderson Cooper Rescues Injured Boy from Haiti Earthquake Riot<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0465580\/\">Push<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/news\/e3i9a5528fef77b8211a4bdb408771636c6\">being made into a TV series<\/a>? Actually, you know, I think this could maybe actually work. As I noted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3555\">back when I first saw it<\/a>, <i>Push<\/i> had an intriguing world that it didn&#8217;t do a whole lot with. (Besides filming it in scenic Hong Kong and giving Dakota Fanning an opportunity to film the least convincing drunk scene ever.) There&#8217;s room to do something more interesting here. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/\" title=\"TV Squad\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, if you&#8217;re not reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/\">Letters of Note<\/a>, you&#8217;re missing out on great finds like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2010\/01\/no-wonder-mary-poppins-was-awful-in.html\">this<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whites-only basketball league? That&#8217;s actually sort of laughably repugnant, to the point where you just assume it has to be a hoax. &#8220;We don&#8217;t hate black people. We just wish there wasn&#8217;t so many of &#8217;em, and they weren&#8217;t such gosh darn awful people.&#8221; [via] Bloomsbury seems to have a problem with black people, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3712\">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":[26,16,14,37,106,17,10,12],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-animated","tag-books","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-racism","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712"}],"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=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}