{"id":3882,"date":"2010-04-24T23:34:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T03:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2010-04-24T23:34:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T03:34:59","slug":"happy-cuckoo-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"Happy Cuckoo Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to my desk calendar, today was traditionally Cuckoo Day in Britain:<\/p>\n

In Marsden, West Yorkshire, residents still honor the “Welsh ambassador,” as the cuckoo was known, since its migratory route begins in Wales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No word on what the celebrations entail. Me, I spent the day mostly just hanging around the house.<\/p>\n

I did some much needed cleaning and listened to several of John Cleese’s commentaries on the Fawlty Towers<\/i> DVDs. <\/p>\n

I mailed a few more issues of Kaleidotrope<\/i>, and learned that a story from issue #6 had been nominated for an award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I quite liked this week’s episode of Doctor Who<\/i>, even if it was mostly just a mash-up of two of Steven Moffat’s earlier episodes (“Blink” and “Silence in the Library”\/”Forest of the Dead”) with some clever bits added on here and there. I can hardly blame him for revisiting the Weeping Angels, which remain genuinely scary, and I’m quite looking forward to the continuation next week.<\/p>\n

And then this evening, I watched The Limey<\/a>, which I think I enjoyed more as a series of expertly composed shots than as an engaging story.<\/p>\n

And that was my Cuckoo Day.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to my desk calendar, today was traditionally Cuckoo Day in Britain: In Marsden, West Yorkshire, residents still honor the “Welsh ambassador,” as the cuckoo was known, since its migratory route begins in Wales. No word on what the celebrations entail. Me, I spent the day mostly just hanging around the house. I did some … 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":[18,4,14,28,17],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-doctor-who","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882"}],"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=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}