{"id":4246,"date":"2010-07-27T18:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2010-07-27T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T20:23:06","slug":"tuesday-various-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4246","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Scientists scouring the area around Stonehenge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/07\/22\/stonehenge-discovery-wood_n_655451.html\">said Thursday<\/a> they have uncovered a circular structure only a few hundred meters (yards) from the world famous monument.&#8221;\n<p>Is it wrong that my first thought was to wonder if it was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pandorica_Opens\">the Pandorica<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Oh, good, because the one thing <i>Torchwood<\/i> hasn&#8217;t been <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2010\/07\/torchwoods-creator-warns-series-4th-season-will-be-dark.php\">is dark<\/a>.\n<p>But I kid. A warning, by the way: that link contains a pretty huge spoiler for (the pretty terrific) <i>Children of Earth<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Tasha Robinson wonders: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/the-big-questions-should-artists-lives-or-opinions,43349\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds\">Should artists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 lives or opinions affect how people perceive their art?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Along <i>somewhat<\/i> similar lines &#8212; that is, of appreciating art on a level perhaps different than what the artist intended &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2261520\/pagenum\/all\">separating the poem from the novel in Nabokov&#8217;s <i>Pale Fire<\/i><\/a>. Spoiler warnings here, too, I guess. Mostly, it just makes me want to re-read Nabokov&#8217;s book.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2010\/daily-transom\/inside-city%E2%80%99s-last-silent-place\">Inside the City&#8217;s Last Silent Place<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I wish there were more drama,&#8221; said Alexander Rose, &#8220;but it&#8217;s convivial and collegiate. There&#8217;s no Norman Mailer trying to kill his wife in here. No tension, no melodrama.&#8221; Mr. Rose, author of <i>American Rifle: A Biography<\/i>, was taking a break from his work to tell the Transom about the Allen Room, a hush-hush space on the second floor of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (formerly the New York Public Library &#8220;main branch&#8221;) on Fifth Avenue. Founded in 1958 as a tribute to Frederick Lewis Allen, the historian and editor of <i>Harper&#8217;s Magazine<\/i>, the room serves as a workspace to a rotating group of authors. Rubberneckers take note: The door is locked at all times, and access is restricted to those who have book contracts, a photocopy of which must accompany requests for a key card. &#8220;It&#8217;s like Aladdin&#8217;s cave,&#8221; Mr. Rose said of the room, which he heard about through the literary grapevine. &#8220;I looked it up, and it actually did exist.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I work just a block from the Library. Now I guess I just need to write a book. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Scientists scouring the area around Stonehenge said Thursday they have uncovered a circular structure only a few hundred meters (yards) from the world famous monument.&#8221; Is it wrong that my first thought was to wonder if it was the Pandorica? [via] Oh, good, because the one thing Torchwood hasn&#8217;t been is dark. But I kid. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4246\">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":[19,16,18,92,47,37,53,17,10,111],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-books","tag-doctor-who","tag-history","tag-libraries","tag-news","tag-poetry","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246"}],"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=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}