{"id":3781,"date":"2010-02-24T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2010-02-24T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:30:22","slug":"wednesday-various-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3781","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Scalzi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.amctv.com\/scifi-scanner\/2010\/02\/winter-in-scifi-movies.php\">Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Winter, I Learned From Science Fiction Movies<\/a> column is nice, but it really just makes me want to watch <i>The Thing<\/i> again.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Let&#8217;s get the reformed alcoholic punk-rock 45-year-old drummer from another country with a broad accent &#8212; that&#8217;s the way to go in the late-night world.&#8221; I&#8217;m starting to think I really should be watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/calendar\/la-ca-ferguson14-2010feb14,0,3739150.story\">Craig Ferguson&#8217;s show<\/a> more often. Apparently, he just aired an hour-long, audience-free conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/StepHenFry\">Stephen Fry<\/a>. He&#8217;s slowly morphing into an antic Tom Snyder with puppets, and that sounds very intriguing to me. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Ever wonder how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingbooks.net\/pronunciations.cgi\">pronounce an author&#8217;s name<\/a>? It&#8217;s an incomplete list, obviously, but it&#8217;s a terrific concept. [<a href=\"http:\/\/storms.typepad.com\/\" title=\"Booklust\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/articles\/an-inside-look-at-antiques-roadshow-a-collectors-weekly-special-report\/\">Inside the Antiques Roadshow<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/\" title=\"Maximum Fun\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Stephen Merritt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/stephin-merritt-on-the-perverse-art-of-love-songs,37999\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds\">on the perverse art or love songs<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">You know, most love songs are not cheesy and corny. Most love songs are complaints, I think. Or about unrequited love, coming at it from some oblique angle. Only the ones that say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I love you\u00e2\u20ac\u009d over and over are the cheesy, corny ones that people complain about. At least half the songs people hear in the world are love songs. I feel like my love songs, probably none of which just say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I love you\u00e2\u20ac\u009d over and over again, are in the mainstream of that tradition of being a little off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also like his thoughts on clich\u00c3\u00a9s and how he felt the need to clarify that by &#8220;<i>Oprah<\/i>&#8221; he was referring to &#8220;the TV show starring Oprah Winfrey.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi&#8217;s Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Winter, I Learned From Science Fiction Movies column is nice, but it really just makes me want to watch The Thing again. &#8220;Let&#8217;s get the reformed alcoholic punk-rock 45-year-old drummer from another country with a broad accent &#8212; that&#8217;s the way to go in the late-night &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3781\">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":[16,104,14,15,31,17,10],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-interviews","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-sci-fi","tag-tv","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781"}],"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=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}