{"id":3767,"date":"2010-02-17T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2010-02-17T18:30:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:30:54","slug":"wednesday-various-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3767","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I think I&#8217;m going to make a movie called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/check-out-neil-marshalls-centurion-trailer-and-hel,38186\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_film\">Vaguely Historical People Killing Things and Shouting at Each Other<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You know, <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ecstaticdays\/~3\/_F2Stm86KOY\/\">Jeff VanderMeer<\/a> is probably right: &#8220;in another 40 years lots of folks are gonna be laughing at lots of stuff we think works just fine now.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>John Seavey makes the argument that <a href=\"http:\/\/fraggmented.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/best-watchman-adaptation-ever-spoilers.html\"><i>Heroes<\/i> is actually the best <i>Watchmen<\/i> adaptation ever<\/a>. Yeah, I&#8217;m just not seeing it.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;French celebrity philosopher&#8221; (how&#8217;s <i>that<\/i> for a title!) Bernard-Henri L\u00c3\u00a9vy has come under fire recently for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/frontpage\/2010\/0210\/1224264114285.html\">quoting a philosopher who never existed<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, I didn&#8217;t watch this year&#8217;s Super Bowl, not even for the ads nor the stirring triumph of the New Orleans Saints. So I luckily missed <a href=\"http:\/\/superbowlads.fanhouse.com\/2010\/dodge-charger-mans-last-stand\/\">this Dodge advertisement<\/a>, though I got a general vibe from the internets that there was sexism aplenty that evening. The internets, they did not lie. So it&#8217;s nice to see someone parody the ad so skillfully, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/video-the-dodge-charger-ad-genders-reversed,38145\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_tv\">simply by reversing the genders<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m going to make a movie called Vaguely Historical People Killing Things and Shouting at Each Other. You know, Jeff VanderMeer is probably right: &#8220;in another 40 years lots of folks are gonna be laughing at lots of stuff we think works just fine now.&#8221; John Seavey makes the argument that Heroes is &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3767\">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":[16,20,14,115,11,69,61,17,10],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-movies","tag-philosophy","tag-publishing","tag-sexism","tag-sports","tag-tv","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767"}],"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=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}