{"id":4132,"date":"2010-07-13T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2010-07-13T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T21:03:56","slug":"tuesday-various-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4132","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Apparently, Megan Fox&#8217;s latest tattoo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2010\/jun\/01\/megan-fox-mystery-tattoo-poet\">is a quote from a writer who doesn&#8217;t exist<\/a>. And I am suddenly imagining tattoo parlors who inscribe quotes from books like those in the library in Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <i>Sandman<\/i> series, the books of dreams, whose common thread is that none of them were ever actually written.\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;m also reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ineradicablestain.com\/skin.html\">Shelley Jackson&#8217;s <i>Skin<\/i> project<\/a>, which maybe beat my brain to it.<\/li>\n<li>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=10026\">this<\/a> isn&#8217;t a real literary mashup novel, somebody at Quirk Books needs to get on it.<\/li>\n<li>Though they better watch out: apparently, novelty books <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/122828-novelty-books-becoming-impossible-to-produce-warn-publishers.html.rss\">are getting more expensive to produce<\/a>. (Though, admittedly, those are more pop-up books and such than anything.)<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile a &#8220;youth edition&#8221; of Barack Obama&#8217;s <i>Dreams From My Father<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/2010\/05\/obama_revamped_book_deal_dream.html\">is being developed<\/a>. What exactly is a &#8220;youth edition&#8221; and what makes the current edition inappropriate? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-1290576\/British-scientist-uncovers-secret-messages-hidden-Platos-ancient-text.html\">British scientist uncovers &#8216;secret messages&#8217; hidden in Plato&#8217;s ancient text<\/a>. Of course he did. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Megan Fox&#8217;s latest tattoo is a quote from a writer who doesn&#8217;t exist. And I am suddenly imagining tattoo parlors who inscribe quotes from books like those in the library in Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Sandman series, the books of dreams, whose common thread is that none of them were ever actually written. Of course, I&#8217;m &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4132\">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":[16,60,9,10,39,12],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-money","tag-pop-culture","tag-various","tag-weird","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132"}],"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=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}