{"id":4386,"date":"2010-08-12T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2010-08-12T16:52:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T20:52:54","slug":"thursday-various-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/1996-09-21\/news\/9609210090_1_fungus-books-hallucinogenic\" title=\"Could It Be That Old Books Are Really, Uh, Mind-altering?\">Scholars beware<\/a>!<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Experts on the various fungi that feed on the pages and on the covers of books are increasingly convinced that you can get high&#8211;or at least a little wacky&#8211;by sniffing old books. Fungus on books, they say, is a likely source of hallucinogenic spores. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>I have to admit, I didn&#8217;t immediately understand <a href=\"http:\/\/devour.com\/video\/words\/\" title=\"Words\">this video<\/a> (a collaboration with NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/radiolab\/\">Radiolab<\/a>), but I liked it enough to re-watch from the beginning once my brain kicked in. [<a href=\"www.Waxy.org\/Links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I have no idea if the new <i>Scott Pilgrim<\/i> movie will be any good or not. Some say awesome, some not so much. I know this will lose me some indie geek cred, but I&#8217;ve been stuck halfway through the first volume for several months, not particularly loving it. That said, I can totally get behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/monkeysee\/2010\/08\/12\/129150813\/-scott-pilgrim-versus-the-unfortunate-tendency-to-review-the-audience\" title=\"'Scott Pilgrim' Versus The Unfortunate Tendency To Review The Audience\">this<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s no reason to be angry at the people you imagine a movie will make happy just because you didn&#8217;t like the movie. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/NoelMu\" title=\"@NoelMu\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Oh come on, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-10936604\" title=\"US school road marking spelled wrongly\">it&#8217;s an honest mistake<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, I need to start riding <a href=\"http:\/\/glvalentine.livejournal.com\/270498.html\">the subways<\/a> more often!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholars beware! Experts on the various fungi that feed on the pages and on the covers of books are increasingly convinced that you can get high&#8211;or at least a little wacky&#8211;by sniffing old books. Fungus on books, they say, is a likely source of hallucinogenic spores. [via] I have to admit, I didn&#8217;t immediately understand &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4386\">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":[16,20,123,149,64,14,54,37,10,7],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-drugs","tag-humor","tag-language","tag-movies","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-various","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386"}],"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=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}