{"id":3869,"date":"2010-04-19T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T22:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2010-04-19T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:11:25","slug":"monday-various-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3869","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m not afraid of clowns &#8212; sometimes I think I&#8217;m maybe in the minority on this &#8212; but how can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/821591-evil-clown-hired-for-stalking-threats-and-a-pie-in-the-face\">an evil clown who stalks children<\/a> possibly be a good idea for a birthday present? [<a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/\" title=\"John Scalzi\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/8616413.stm\">Doctor Who regeneration was &#8216;modelled on LSD trips&#8217;<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/\" title=\"SF Wire\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Meanwhile, I think I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=59108\">Stephen Moffat&#8217;s definition<\/a> of the show:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about a man who can travel in time. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a television show set at every point in history at every place in the universe. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not bound by logic or genre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">How could that <em>not<\/em> be fun?<\/font><\/li>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Don&#8217;t you forget about me. <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/12\/critics-picks-video-the-breakfast-club\/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">A.O. Scott on <em>The Breakfast Club<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/treme-hbo\/index.ssf\/2010\/04\/hbos_treme_creator_david_simon.html\">David Simon on <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/treme-hbo\/index.ssf\/2010\/04\/hbos_treme_creator_david_simon.html\"><em>Treme<\/em><\/a><\/em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/\" title=\"AV Club\">via<\/a>]:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Well,  Pablo Picasso famously said that art is the lie that shows us the truth. Such might be the case of a celebrated artist claiming more for himself and his work than he ought,  or perhaps,  this Picasso fella was on to something.<\/p>\n<p>By referencing what is real,  or historical,  a fictional narrative can speak in a powerful,  full-throated way to the problems and issues of our time. And a wholly imagined tale,  set amid the intricate and accurate details of a real place and time,  can resonate with readers in profound ways. In short,  drama is its own argument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not afraid of clowns &#8212; sometimes I think I&#8217;m maybe in the minority on this &#8212; but how can an evil clown who stalks children possibly be a good idea for a birthday present? [via] Doctor Who regeneration was &#8216;modelled on LSD trips&#8217; [via] Meanwhile, I think I like Stephen Moffat&#8217;s definition of the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3869\">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":[122,18,14,37,17,10,39],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-clowns","tag-doctor-who","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869"}],"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=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}