{"id":3981,"date":"2010-06-23T18:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T22:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2010-06-23T18:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T22:30:55","slug":"wednesday-various-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3981","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have to say, Todd VanDerWerff does make the death throes of <i>&#8216;Til Death<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/nobodys-watching-the-strange-genius-of-the-fourth,42394\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_tv\">sound much more interesting<\/a> than it probably was:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">This was television made by consummate professionals who were pretty sure no one was ever going to see it, and it was somehow gloriously awful and compellingly watchable all at once.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">He does, of course, stop short of saying the sitcom ever got <i>good<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Susan Orlean&#8217;s tale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/susanorlean\/2010\/06\/alphabet-soup.html\">of editorial alphabet soup<\/a> sounds perfectly believable to me. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Jon Stewart: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2010_06_18.html#019128\">We&#8217;ve redefined success&#8230;and still failed.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not particularly reassuring to realize that BP&#8217;s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is more than rule than the exception: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/06\/14\/more-oil-spilled-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing\/iBag+%28Boing+Boing%29\">More oil spilled in Nigeria &#8220;every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico&#8221;<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>\n<li>And finally, two <i>Doctor Who<\/i> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/billchas.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/oscar-grouch-time-lord.html\">Oscar the Grouch: Time Lord<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HODGMAN\" title=\"John Hodgman\">via<\/a>] and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/in-the-market-for-a-tardis\">wanna buy a TARDIS<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, Todd VanDerWerff does make the death throes of &#8216;Til Death sound much more interesting than it probably was: This was television made by consummate professionals who were pretty sure no one was ever going to see it, and it was somehow gloriously awful and compellingly watchable all at once. He does, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3981\">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":[18,76,37,6,11,17,10],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-doctor-who","tag-environment","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-publishing","tag-tv","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981"}],"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=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}