{"id":4665,"date":"2010-09-16T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T22:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2010-09-16T16:18:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T20:18:54","slug":"thursday-various-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4665","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>John Scalzi <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/09\/16\/writing-find-the-time-or-dont\/\">on finding the time to write<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>So: Do you want to write or don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you? If your answer is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yes, but,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d then here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a small editing tip: what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing is using six letters and two words to say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <i>fine<\/i>. Just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t kid yourself as to what \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yes, but\u00e2\u20ac\u009d means.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Janet Potter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2010\/09\/stieg-larsson-swedish-narcissus.html\">on the work of Stieg Laarson<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Which is why, in the end, my problem with the Millennium trilogy is not its genre, or its plot, or its characters. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the fact that the bestselling books in the world are poorly written, erotic fan fiction that a man wrote about himself. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Roger Ebert <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/ebert\/2010\/09\/put_up_or_shut_up.html\">on the state of the nation<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The time is here for responsible Americans to put up or shut up. I refer specifically to those who have credibility among the guileless and credulous citizens who have been infected with notions so carefully nurtured. We cannot afford to allow the next election to proceed under a cloud of falsehood and delusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nancy Kress <a href=\"http:\/\/nancykress.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/cranky-at-movies.html\">on bad movies<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>When you fall asleep at a movie and begin to snore, that constitutes a review. When no one around you goes &#8220;shhhh,&#8221; that constitutes another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>And finally, the CERN Choir on particle physics [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]:\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/28X9czEROPs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/28X9czEROPs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi on finding the time to write: So: Do you want to write or don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you? If your answer is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yes, but,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d then here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a small editing tip: what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing is using six letters and two words to say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fine. Just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t kid yourself as to what \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yes, but\u00e2\u20ac\u009d means. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4665\">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":[67,16,14,15,6,38,10,142,12],"class_list":["post-4665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-books","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-various","tag-video","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665"}],"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=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}